[RESOLVED] From the book..

[Dang]

Again, working from the tutorail in PHP and MYSQL for dynamic web sites...

I have done my best to copy the following code from the book and still get a blank browser. I have checked and checked and only come here as a last resort (you guys have helped me before and it always comes down to a comma or something like that).

this is all on one script generating a form using php.

Thank you!

<?php

$page_title = 'Calendar Form';
include('./php/header.inc');

function make_calendar_pulldown($this_month= NULL,$today= NULL,$year
= NULL) {

$months = array(1 => 'January','February','March','April','May',
		'June','July','August','September','October',
		'November','December');
	echo '<select name="month">';
		foreach($months as $key => $value) {
	echo "<option value = \"$key\"";
		if ($value == $this_month) {
	echo 'selected = "selected"';
}

echo ">$value</option>\n";
}

echo '</select>
	<select name= "day">';

for ($day = 1; $day <= 31; $day++) {
	echo "<option value= \"$day\"";
	if($day == $today) {
		echo 'selected= "selected"';
}

echo ">$day</option>\n";
}

echo '</select>
	<select name= "year">';
	if(!isset($year)) {
		$year = date('Y');
}

while ($year <= 2010) {
	echo "<option value= \"year\">	
	$year</option>\n";

$year++;
}
echo '</select>';

}

echo '<form action= "dateform.php" method= "post">';
	$dates = getdate();
	make_calendar_pulldown(dates['month'],dates['mday'],dates['year']);

echo '</form>';



include('./php/footer.inc');
?>

[NogDog]

Looks like some missing closing curly braces. I reformatted the indenting a bit to figure out what should go where in the function definition. Also, in case there are any other bugs, you might want to make sure PHP is reporting all errors to you, thus the debug settings I added at the beginning (and which you might want to comment out when you go into "production mode").

<?php
// DEBUG
ini_set("display_errors", 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);
// END DEBUG

$page_title = 'Calendar Form';
include('./php/header.inc');

function make_calendar_pulldown($this_month = NULL, $today = NULL, $year = NULL)
{
   $months = array(1 => 'January','February','March','April','May',
         'June','July','August','September','October',
         'November','December');
   echo '<select name="month">';
   foreach($months as $key => $value) 
   {
      echo "<option value = \"$key\"";
      if ($value == $this_month) 
      {
         echo 'selected = "selected"';
      }
      echo ">$value</option>\n";
   }
   echo '</select>
      <select name= "day">';

   for ($day = 1; $day <= 31; $day++) 
   {
      echo "<option value= \"$day\"";
      if($day == $today) 
      {
         echo 'selected= "selected"';
      }
      echo ">$day</option>\n";
   }
   echo '</select>
      <select name= "year">';
   if(!isset($year))
   {
      $year = date('Y');
   }
   while ($year <= 2010) 
   {
      echo "<option value= \"year\">   

      $year</option>\n";
      $year++;
   }
   echo '</select>';
}

echo '<form action= "dateform.php" method= "post">';
   $dates = getdate();
   make_calendar_pulldown(dates['month'],dates['mday'],dates['year']);

echo '</form>';

include('./php/footer.inc');
?>

[Dang]

I tried your code, and still blank browser.

I also tried un-commenting your debug (which was a new lesson for me, thank you). I have global variables set to off by the way.

Thank you for the formatting lesson as well, I'll get there one day I promise.

Again, Thank you so much!

[Dang]

I also tried excluding the includes just in case they were the problem, and still get the same result.

[NogDog]

You're missing the "$" character on the array variable names on this line:

   make_calendar_pulldown([color=red][b]$[/b][/color]dates['month'], [color=red][b]$[/b][/color]dates['mday'], [color=red][b]$[/b][/color]dates['year']);

[Dang]

That was it!

Thank you so much, I have so much to learn. I really like to ask for help as a last resort, but it is so nice to have a place like this to come for that help.

Thanks again!!!