[RESOLVED] Address Form Error using # in Addr.

AHoward007

How do you add code to this script to include the # symbol in street address. I tested my street address 1415 2nd Ave., #1902 and it resulted in error.

I suppose I could add another input field called Apt. which seems to be the most common way to address this problem.

<tr><td class="bold_right">Street</td>
               <td><input type="text" name="street" 
                      value="<?php echo @$street ?>"
                      size="55" maxlength="50"></td></tr>

devinemke

i get no error with this

<?php
$street = '1415 2nd Ave., #1902';
?>

<form action="" method="post">
<input type="text" name="address" value="<?php echo $street; ?>">
</form>

AHoward007

I'm finding when the form loads I'm getting an undefined variable error message in the address box when I remove the @ symbol before the $street variable.

The @ symbol is suppressing the error msg that occurs when the $street variable has not been entered yet. In other words when the form is blank waiting for input.

devinemke

you need to check to see if the variable is set first using [man]isset[/man]

<form action="" method="post">
<input type="text" name="text" value="<?php if (isset($street)) {echo $street;} ?>">
</form>

AHoward007

Actually even when I tried this it's not accepting the # symbol on my computer.

<?php
$street = '1415 2nd Ave., #1902';
?>

<form action="" method="post">
<input type="text" name="address" value="<?php echo $street; ?>">
</form>

I also tried $street =""; and entering the address in the field but both methods still would not accept the # symbol in the address field.

shawty

Can't say iv'e ever seen PHP complain about using a # anywhere in any variable.

Iv'e just tested the code from your previous post and it works fine for me, even without the error suppression.

Couple of things i could suggest however:

encode all occurences of the # char to be printed in HTML as & # 35;

so eg:

<?php
$street = '1415 2nd Ave., #1902';
$street = str_replace('#','& # 35 ;');
?>

<form action="" method="post">
<input type="text" name="address" value="<?php echo $street; ?>">
</form>

NOTE: remove the spaces iv'e added between the & # and so on, iv'e had to put spaces in so that they display how i want them to

This will still display as a # in the web page, but in the source you'll see that the code is replaced by the HTML friendly version. (This page will help - http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm)

The other option is to use PHP's various string manipulation techniques and set the # directly in the string by setting it's index to the character code, this however is quite an adanced thing and if the problem is at the HTML side, then it will not solve anything.

Cheers

Peter

AHoward007

Found the source of the problem in another part of the code on forms validation. I added the # symbol to the line below and it corrected the problem. Thanks to all for the help.

if(eregi("street",$field) or 
             eregi("addr",$field) or eregi("city",$field))
           {
              if(!ereg("^[A-Za-z0-9.#,' -]{1,50}$",$value))
              {
                 $errors[] = "$value is not a valid 
                               address or city.";