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May 8th, 2008, 03:44 PM

ford2008

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Problems with this code?

Heya, can anybody help me with this code,

im trying to post the $firstName variable to the page...

the error msg that comes up is :

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting ',' or ';'

PHP Code:


		
			
echo '<div id=/"content/"> <div class=/"right/"><h2><a   href=/"/"> $_POST['$firstName'];

thanks everybody!

May 8th, 2008, 03:51 PM

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You have problems with your quotes by trying to access the array key. Asside from that, variables are not interpreted when placed in a string enclosed in single quotes. Use either double-quotes with complex syntax, or single quotes and string concatenation.

Code:

echo '<div id="content"> <div class="right"><h2><a href="">'.$_POST['firstName'];

Code:

//Your slashes to escape the quotes are also wrong.  You use backslash \, not forward slash /.
echo "<div id=\"content\"> <div class=\"right\"><h2><a href=\"\">{$_POST['firstName']}"

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May 8th, 2008, 04:25 PM

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cheers

cheers, problem sorted- iv got another code problem though if you could assist me,

error message:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at...(ive highlighted the line

Code:

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php



//session_start();



include('functions.php');



if(!isset($_POST['user']) OR !isset($_POST['pass']))



{echo"<div id = \"content\">;



<div class=\"right\">;

<h2>< href=\"\">

You have entered an incorrect password

</a></h2>";

//return 0;



}

$user=$_POST['user'];



$pass=$_POST['pass'];



$firstName=$_POST['firstName'];



$LastName=$_POST['lastName'];



$pass2=getPass($user);



if(md5($pass)!=$pass2)

{

echo "<div id=\"content\">;<div class=\"right\">;



<a href=\"\"><h2>The password you entered is not correct, please try again</h2></a>";



exit();



die('');



}



//return 0;



//echo('Login successful');

//return 1;

//$_SESSION['logged']=1;



<span class="highlight">setcookie("Logged","1");</span>



echo '<div id=\"content\"> <div class=\"right\"><h2><a href=\"\">';

echo '<div id=\"content\"> <div class=\"right\"><h2><a href=\"\">\'.$_POST[\'firstName\']';



?>

thankyou

May 8th, 2008, 05:27 PM

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PHP Code:


		
			
echo"<div id = \"content\">; 



<div class=\"right\">; 

<h2>< href=\"\"> 

You have entered an incorrect password 

</a></h2>"; 

//return 0;

There, you have to 'echo' the last bit so use this instead.

PHP Code:


		
			
echo '<div id = "content"> 

<div class="right"> 

<h2>< href="\"> 

You have entered an incorrect password 

</a></h2>'; 

//return 0;

Try reading a book on PHP or find a good tutorial, you'll learn how to write less buggy code. In two instances you forgot to add " in to echoed stuff, so in that line and in the last line.
Is that all the code? I didn't see a header in there. Remember when you use headers, the header has to be inserted before code that sends anything to the browser.

May 8th, 2008, 05:58 PM

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cheers, for your help, yea just added a few headers recently - made sure they were b4 the code too !

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