simple and it wont work.

headacheLCD

Ok Im doing the tutorial "PHP from the ground up" on webmonkey.com Anyway I tried the loanshark script and its not working. You can try it at http://www.audiofreak.net/xbox/loan.html

It will show you what I'm having problems with Anyway it uses a form that posts the information for loanshark.php

Heres loanshark.php :

<html>
<head>
<title>Loans</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php

$interest_rate = .14;

function YouOweMe($cost, $interest_rate) {

$weekly_payment = ($cost*$interest_rate);

print "You better pay me \$$weekly_payment every week, or else!";

}

YouOweMe($cost, $interest_rate);
?>
</body>
</html>
Anyway can you help me out, Is it the tutorial or is it something I did?

chadu

Your HTML form looks like this:

My hovercraft costs $<input type="text" name="$cost">
<p><input type="submit" name="submit" value="What's My Interest Payment?">
</center>
</form>

it needs to be like this:

My hovercraft costs $<input type="text" name="cost">
<p><input type="submit" name="submit" value="What's My Interest Payment?">
</center>
</form>

dont place a $ before the field name in the form and you should be fine.

headacheLCD

lol cant believe I missed that!

Thanks for the help,

Andy.