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May 29th, 2002, 03:17 AM

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probably really simple

This is probably a really simple question, but I keep getting an unexpected T_Variable when I try and run this code. I'm running apache 1.3, with the latest versions of MySQL and PHP.
<html>
<body>
<?php
$db = mysql_connect("curriculum", "root", "");
mysql_select_db(cardb, $db);
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM careers, keywords WHERE careers.pg_id = keywords.pg_id AND keywords.keyword = $search", $db);
$row=mysql_fetch_array($result);
print("<p><a href="$row["link"]">$row["title"]</a></p>");
print("<p>$row["des"]</p>");
?>
</body>
</html>

I'm not sure what the problem is and I've been trying for a couple of days to fix it. It's a simple search engine I'm making for a school website.

May 29th, 2002, 03:40 AM

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Re: probably really simple

Quote:

Originally posted by nick.b
mysql_select_db(cardb, $db);

Try changing this to:

PHP Code:


		
			
 mysql_select_db('cardb', $db);

Hope it helps,
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May 29th, 2002, 07:34 AM

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First off, go here and learn how to post a descriptive subject title, probably really simple is unacceptable.
You had a PHP question so this should be posted only to PHP forum instead. There's no such thing as too simple question that you can't ask in PHP forum.

May 29th, 2002, 08:36 AM

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This will cause you problems:

PHP Code:


		
			
print("<p><a href="$row["link"]">$row["title"]</a></p>"); 

print("<p>$row["des"]</p>");

This should be something like:

PHP Code:


		
			
echo "<p><a href=\"{$row['link']}\">{$row['title']}</a></p>";

echo "<p>{$row['des']}</p>";

/*-- or --*/

echo '<p><a href="'.$row['link'].'">'.$row['title'].'</a></p>';

echo '<p>'.$row['des'].'</p>';

If you don't escape double quotes inside of a string that is started and ended with double quotes all you are doing is dropping in and out of the string. This is why you were getting the error. It was expecting link, title and des to be variables but they were not.

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May 29th, 2002, 09:48 AM

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Thanks

Thanks for your help, It's now working after a fashion. I was kind of under the impression that this forum was for beginners, of which I am. And now there's a new problem, the form box I'm using isn't sending the data to PHP or PHP isn't picking it up. But I'll take that to the HTML forum, I think.

May 29th, 2002, 10:39 AM

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How are you trying to access the variables that have been posted from the form? If you have register_globals set to off in the php.ini file, then you have to use the $_POST & $_GET variables to access these variable.

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