Problem with printing a Variable, I do not want printed!

SNP

Hello, I'm new here and in the whole PHP world 😃

I hit a wall trying to make a small script. I actually followed some tutorials and resulted in a problem. I want to pass on some Variable Values throu a Hidden Form type to another page and well I have the following prob

 print  "<table align='center' border='1' cellpadding='0'><tr><td>
	    <form method='post' action='final.php'>
	    <input type='submit' name='keybutton' value='Show Key'></td></tr>";
print  "<input type='hidden' name='title' value='$title'>";
print  "<input type='hidden' name='makekey' value='$makekey'></form>";

I hoped that with these lines (lines are on the wordgame.php page) I could pass on the information of $title and $makekey to final.php through an Hidden Form type.

However , the line:

 print  "<input type='hidden' name='makekey' value='$makekey'></form>"

seems to print out my $makekey value (even printing out the " '> " afterwards) on the wordgame.php while I do not have the same problem with the $title which is one line above.

Don't know what I'm doing wrong.

PS. I haven't moved on to MySQL thats why I'm using this method. Sorry, I'm noob 😃

tsinka

Hi,

which value does $makekey have ?

Thomas

SNP

Well it's a bit more complex than a simple value.

First of all:

 $makekey=drawBoard($key);

The drawBoard fuction code is:

 
function drawBoard($board)
{
global $boardD,$title;

$puzzle="";
$puzzle.="<table align='center'  border='0' cellpadding='5' cellspacing='5'><caption><h3>$title</h3></caption>";
for ($i=0;$i<$boardD['height'];$i++){
	$puzzle.="<tr><font align='center'>";
	for ($j=0;$j<$boardD['width'];$j++){
		$puzzle.="<td><center>{$board[$i][$j]}</center></td>";
	}
	$puzzle.="</tr></font>";
	}
	return $puzzle;
}

I also tried giving $makekey an easy value such as "lalala" and I didn't have the same problem. (It didn't print lalala on the wordgame.php page)

Will try and figure out if the error is somewhere else in the code. Until now I only though I had sth wrong with the escape code.

Thanx for replying 🙂

tsinka

Ok,

seems like you're trying to submit the complete HTML code that this function generates (which breaks up the page HTML code). What about submitting just the key and then using the function on in the script that receives the submitted data ?

Thomas

SNP

Hmmm I will give it a try. Hopefully no new probs will occur.

I still don't understand why it printed the whole array in $makekey though.

Thanx for the help Thomas 🙂