Some echo's don't appear in broswer

insanepenguin

Hi everyone,

There seems to be an issue with my localhost environment, maybe I need to change a setting in config?

http://www.bullterrierstud.co.uk/php/choose.html - I'm a PHP newbie and this is a very simple script as you can see you get the response

Success!

e.g: Your red Porsche 911 is ready. Safe driving!

On my local server (WAMP) I get the " Success!" but no message about the car and colour.

It will also echo true booleans (1) but not false (0)

Thanks for any help!

Mike

laserlight

You should post the script in [noparse]

[/noparse] bbcode tags.

insanepenguin

Ah, that would help sorry

<?php
// get form input
$type = $_POST['selType'];
$color = $_POST['txtColor'];
// use form input
echo "Your $color $type is ready. Safe driving!";
?>

laserlight

hmm... but "Success!" is not printed.

What version of PHP are you running on localhost? Is error_reporting set to E_ALL?

bradgrafelman

insanepenguin wrote:
It will also echo true booleans (1) but not false (0)

This is a common problem. If you're trying to echo out a numeric or boolean value, 0 often won't show. Since the manual page for [man]echo[/man] says that echo expects string arguments, you can't really blame PHP for this behavior.

Instead, if you want to know more information about a non-string variable, use [man]var_dump/man instead - it's more informative and will always be displayed.