Variables

[ddowling]

Hi, I'm new to php and was wondering if anyone could help me with this problem. When I enter a value into the RecipientMob textbox and when I click submit I want that value to be made equal to the $to variable in the smsmessaging.php script. When I use it I get message failed. If anyone kows how oculd they tell me. I'm sure its very simple. Thanks again

<form name=myform action="smsmessaging.php">
<br>
<br>
<br>
<table width="75%" border="1">
<tr>
<td width="31%" height="40"> <div align="center"><font size="2">Mobile Number</font></div></td>
<td width="69%"><div align="center">
<input name="RecipientMob" type="text" id="RecipientMob">
</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="center"><font size="2">Message</font></div></td>
<td><div align="center">
<textarea name=message wrap=physical cols=28 rows=3 onKeyDown="textCounter(this.form.message,this.form.remLen,160);" onKeyUp="textCounter(this.form.message,this.form.remLen,160);"></textarea>
&nbsp;</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="43"><div align="center"><font size="2">Characters Left</font></div></td>
<td><div align="center">
<input readonly type=text name=remLen size=3 maxlength=3 value="160">
</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="46" colspan="2"><div align="center">
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Send Message">
</div></td>

</tr>

</table>
<p><br>
<br>
</p>
</form>

$user = "vamuse";
$password = "pingpong";
$api_id = "239445";
$baseurl ="http://api.clickatell.com";
$text = urlencode("Congratulations Rachel Quigley, you have won an all expenses paid trip to Dave Dowlings house this weekend. Yippee ");
$to = $_POST['RecipientMob'];
// auth call
$url = "$baseurl/http/auth?user=vamuse&password=pingpong&api_id=239445";
// do auth call
$ret = file($url);
// split our response. return string is on first line of the data returned
$sess = split(":",$ret[0]);
if ($sess[0] == "OK") {
$sess_id = trim($sess[1]); // remove any whitespace
$url = "$baseurl/http/sendmsg?session_id=$sess_id&to=$to&text=$text";
// do sendmsg call
$ret = file($url);
$send = split(":",$ret[0]);
if ($send[0] == "ID")
echo "success<br>message ID: ". $send[1];
else
echo "send message failed";
} else {
echo "Authentication failure: ". $ret[0];
exit();
}

[jesus_hairdo]

Your form has no 'METHOD' set so is defaulting to GET.
The scrip that sends the message is looking for it in POST, so you need to make your form have the METHOD of POST by adding this to your <form> tag.
change

<form name=myform action="smsmessaging.php"> 

to

<form name="myform" method="POST" action="smsmessaging.php">

This should now work.

ta,

Jamie

[ddowling]

That works great. Another problem that i tried to fix is, I want to do the same for the $text variable.

$text = urlencode($_POST['Message']);

However this doesn't work. Is this the right syntax to use.

Thanks again.

[DeadFly]

Your syntax for urlencode() was fine.

You did however have problems with the rest of your syntax, as well as some just bad coding practices . . . 😉

*****Never pass users important data through any means where it could be picked up by anyone(ie; through URL). (See /////Comment #1).

You were also missing parts of your if statements, including a bunch of brace brackets.

Try this version of the code:

<?
$user = "vamuse"; 
$password = "pingpong"; 
$api_id = "239445"; 
$baseurl ="http://api.clickatell.com"; 
$text = urlencode("Congratulations Rachel Quigley, you have won an all expenses paid trip to Dave Dowlings house this weekend. Yippee "); 
$to = $_POST['RecipientMob']; 
// auth call 
/////Comment #1
$url = $baseurl."/http/auth?user=".$user."&password=".$password."&api_id=".$api_id.""; 
// do auth call 
$ret = file($url); 
// split our response. return string is on first line of the data returned 
$sess = split(":",$ret[0]); 
if ($sess[0] == "OK") { 
	$sess_id = trim($sess[1]); // remove any whitespace 
	$url = $baseurl."/http/sendmsg?session_id=".$sess_id."&to=".$to."&text=".$text; 
	// do sendmsg call 
	$ret = file($url); 
	$send = split(":",$ret[0]); 
	if ($send[0] == "ID"){
		echo "success<br>message ID: ". $send[1]; 
	}else{ 
		echo "send message failed";
	} 
} else { 
	echo "Authentication failure: ". $ret[0]; 
	exit();	 
}
?>

Also, I worked only with the code that was posted. I am assuming that there is more code somewhere, including the $_POST['submit'] check and whatnot.

[jesus_hairdo]

Originally posted by ddowling
That works great. Another problem that i tried to fix is, I want to do the same for the $text variable.

$text = urlencode($_POST['Message']);

However this doesn't work. Is this the right syntax to use.

Thanks again. [/B]

Try using

$test = urlencode($_POST['message']);

NOTE: message (all lower case) this is because the <textarea> had a name of 'message'.
Array indexes are Case-Sensitive! (as are most if not all things in PHP).