[thelist] php: problem with variable

[Chris Blessing]

Michael-

I may have missed it already, but did you check to see that register_globals
was turned on in your php.ini conf?

If the name is set in the form there is no other reason you shouldn't see it
immediately once it has been submitted.

Chris Blessing
webguy at mail.rit.edu
http://www.330i.net

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Michael Galvin
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 9:57 AM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] php: problem with variable
>
>
> Chris/Mark
>
> Both the name and type are "submit".  I understand about the hidden value
> (and indeed if I were using ASP, that's the way I'd do it), but I'd still
> have the same problem, in that if I set a hidden field 'test', then $test
> would still be an undefined variable the first time I enter the form.
>
> I guess Jason's "if (!isset($_POST['submitted']))" is the best
> way to do it.
> Seems a little strange.  Was I correct in assuming that undefined
> variables
> are a fairly recent addition to the php stable?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Blessing" <webguy at mail.rit.edu>
> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 2:50 PM
> Subject: RE: [thelist] php: problem with variable
>
>
> | Hi Michael-
> |
> | Are you certain that the submit button is named "submit" and that the
> "type"
> | attribute for that element isn't what you were looking at?
> |
> | I try not to use that technique anyhow.  You can do some other
> things like
> | add an "action" hidden input to your form (this is what I
> usually do) that
> | says something more intuitive like "processEmail" and then
> check for that
> to
> | see if you actually process the form or display it (I just
> prefer this to
> | checking for a button).
> |
> | Chris Blessing
> | webguy at mail.rit.edu
> | http://www.330i.net
> |
> | > Now I'm having some trouble with what appears to be undefined
> variables,
> | > which I assume didn't cause much of a problem in whichever version of
> php
> | > this was originally written.
> | >
> | > I have an add.php which submits a form to itself.  So the
> first thing it
> | > does is check for a variable called '$submit' which is the
> value of the
> | > submit button.  If this is empty, it creates the form.  If not,
> | > it does some
> | > other stuff (not important).
> |
> |
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