[RESOLVED] combining strings?

kdlklm

I'm stumbling over been able to combine this into a single string for output. It's been a long day so bear with me.

$output = "<b>Name</b>: "."$name"."<p>"
."<b>Email</b>: "."$from"."<p>"
."<b>Address</b>: "."$address"."<p>"
."<b>City</b>: "."$city"."<p>"
."<b>Phone</b>: "."$phone"."<p>"
."<b>Date</b>: "."$date"."<p>"
."<b>Time</b>: "."$time"."<p>"
."<b>Age</b>: "."$age"."<p>"
."<b>Musical Preferences</b>:<br>";
	 if ($_REQUEST["Top40"] == "Top40") {echo "Top40<br>";};
	if ($_REQUEST["Jazz"] == 'Jazz') {echo "Jazz<br>";};
	if ($_REQUEST["Classical"] == 'Classical') {echo "Classical<br>";};
	if ($_REQUEST["Bigband"] == 'Bigband') {echo "Bigband<br>";};
	if ($_REQUEST["Country"] == 'Country') {echo "Country<br>";};
	if ($_REQUEST["Disco"] == 'Disco') {echo "Disco<br>";};
	if ($_REQUEST["Urban"] == 'Urban') {echo "Urban<br>";};
	if ($_REQUEST["Latin"] == 'Latin') {echo "Latin<br>";};
	if ($_REQUEST["Rock"] == 'Rock') {echo "Rock<br>";};
	if ($_REQUEST["Sixties"] == 'Sixties') {echo "Sixties<br>";};
	if ($_REQUEST["Eighties"] == 'Eighties') {echo "Eighties<br>";};
	if ($_REQUEST["Techno"] == 'Techno') {echo "Techno<br>";};
	if ($_REQUEST["Seventies"] == 'Seventies') {echo "Seventies<br>";};
	if ($_REQUEST["Nineties"] == 'Nineties') {echo "Nineties<br>";};
$output = $output."<p>"
."<b>What type of event?</b><br>$Wedding $Birthday_Party $Elementary_School $Middle_School_Dance $High_School_Dance $Church_Function $Other_nonprofit_organization $Bar_Mitzvah $CollegeParty $Other1<p>"
."<b>How did you hear about us?</b><br>$InternetSearch $Referral $Saw_us_at_an_event $Other<p>"
."<b>Message</b>:<br>"."$message";

Thora_Fan

First off, when using double quotes for strings, you don't need to concatenate them separately. Example:

$output = "<b>Name</b>: "."$name"."<p>"

/* could easily be */

$output = "<b>Name</b>: $name<p>"

Secondly, if you are trying to add the $_REQUEST variables in, don't use the echo statement.

if ($_REQUEST["Top40"] == "Top40") {echo "Top40<br>";}; 

/* should be */

if ($_REQUEST["Top40"] == "Top40") { $output .= "Top40<br>"; };

Anything to the right of .= will be appended to the variable on the left.

kdlklm

thank you, that works perfectly.

bradgrafelman

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