the $ sign doesnt work (form processing)

Anon

I tried to build a simple form processing file, but the $ sign doesnt seem to work. It doesnt show me the user name I'm putting in my echo "thank you" statement, and if I put a line like: $message="Name: $Name"; , then the server gives an error message for that line. Could it be that the server is customized to use another sign (other that $ ) to handle strings?

Anon

Remember when using variables, keep this in mind:

BAD: echo "Thankyou $name for stopping by!";

GOOD: echo "Thankyou " . $name . "for stopping by!";

Hope this helps!

Jason Rottman
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kparker

Hmm, so are we supposed to say "Darn those nasty PHP developers for putting variable interpolation into the language!" or something?

More to the point, your GOOD example may improve performance a little, but you BAD example is nevertheless perfactly valid PHP from a syntax point of view, so it doesn't really address his problem.

From what Yallon has written, I don't see what's wrong, either. The statement:

$message="Name: $Name";

looks like perfectly valid PHP to me. What exactly is the error message, and what do the few lines preceding this look like?

jordan

Indeed, Mr. Rottman seems to be rather confused about something-or-other. There's really absolutely nothing wrong, from neither a coding nor convention standpoint, with dropping a variable in the middle of a string. There's a reason PHP has this feature: it's useful.

Anon

I think something is wrong in your configuration. I tried to find something in the docs about it, but I didn't spend a lot of time there. It seems like your variables aren't coming from the page as they are named - I know that there is a way to config apache to do so... You might try $HTTP_POST_VARS['name'] instead of $name and see if that works.

I don't really know much about these issues, but it might put you on the right track.