[RESOLVED] Trouble sorting.

Carlo_Gambino

Thanks to all the contributors. I've read here for some time before I decided to learn php, and now here I am.

In learning to code dynamic web pages, I am building a basic movie review site. I've been trying to understand the logic behind sorting arrays but I'm hitting a wall:

<?php
session_start();
//Check to see if user has logged in with a valid password
        if ($_SESSION['authuser']!=1) {
        echo "Access Denied. ";
        exit();
        }
?>
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>My Movie Site- <?php echo $_REQUEST['favmovie'] ?></TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<?php include "header.php" ?>
<?php
$favmovies = array("Life of Brian", "Stripes", "Office Space", "The Holy Grail",
 "Matrix", "Terminator 2", "Star Wars", "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "S
ixteen Candles", "Caddyshack");

if (ISSET($_REQUEST['favmovie'])) {
        echo "Welcome to our site!";
        echo $_SESSION['username'];
        echo "! <br>";
        echo "My favorite movie is ";
        echo $_REQUEST['favmovie'];
        echo "<br>";
        $movierate-5;
        echo "My rating for this movie is: ";
        echo $movierate;
}
else {
        echo "My top 10 movies are:<br>";

    if (ISSET($REQUEST['sorted'])) {
    sort($favmovies);
    }

    foreach ($favmovies as $currentvalue) {
            echo $currentvalue;
            echo "<br>\n";
            }
}
?>

I'm able to list the top 10 movies, but unable to get them sorted correctly. Please tell me what I'm missing!?

😕

bradgrafelman

$REQUEST doesn't exist; try $_REQUEST instead.

NogDog

PS: If you know that the data will be coming in from a post method form or from a get method form/URL, then it is better to use the $POST or $GET array, respectively, instead of $_REQUEST. This both avoids possible name collisions, plus it helps the code to be self-documented regarding the source of the data.

Carlo_Gambino

Thanks for the input, I seem to be looking right at the details and missing them- something I'm working on personally.

I appreciate your input on $POST and $GET vs $_REQUEST. I'm super new to php (as if you can't tell), but I'm slowly learning through helpful feedback like that.