Re: [PHP] Remembering which option in a SELECT tag the user had chosen

2003-01-29 Thread Webapprentice
Hi John, I was thinking of inserting a check on each option, but I thought there had to be a different way. I've received ideas of storing the option values in an array and creating a function to generate that dropdown by grabbing values out of the array, so I want to go with that because that

[PHP] if (a == b) ...

2003-01-29 Thread Webapprentice
Hi, I have a conditional: if (a == b) a is the number 0, but b is a string Friday August 22. The condition is evaluating as true, which is not what I want. What am I misunderstanding? Thanks, Stephen -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP] if (a == b) ...

2003-01-29 Thread Webapprentice
Cal, Thanks for the suggestion. I looked up equality on www.php.net, and there are many comments about how == works. I also found out === works too, or is that still lazy? Thanks, Stephen Cal Evans wrote: Stephen, Friday August 22 evaluates to the number 0. (check the docs for intval())

Re: [PHP] Any PHP equivalent of Macromedia ColdFusion's location tag?

2002-03-27 Thread webapprentice
PROTECTED] To: webapprentice [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: James [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jason Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 12:24 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] Any PHP equivalent of Macromedia ColdFusion's location tag? Hi Mr. Lerdorf, I look forward to you upcoming

[PHP] Any PHP equivalent of Macromedia ColdFusion's location tag?

2002-03-26 Thread webapprentice
Is there any PHP function that works like ColdFusion's location tag? After a certain execution, I wish to leave the current PHP page entirely and go to another page. Is this possible? I'm scouring the help stuff and am still digging for answers. Thanks.

Re: [PHP] Any PHP equivalent of Macromedia ColdFusion's location tag?

2002-03-26 Thread webapprentice
refreshing the page and causing the PHP page to submit again. Thus, is there something else I can do? Or am I just not seeing this? Thanks, Stephen - Original Message - From: James [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: webapprentice [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 10:20 PM Subject: Re: [PHP

Re: [PHP] Any PHP equivalent of Macromedia ColdFusion's location tag?

2002-03-26 Thread webapprentice
(since the PHP processor probably translates whitespace as echo/print statements). Thanks. --Stephen - Original Message - From: Rasmus Lerdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: webapprentice [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: James [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jason Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: [PHP] Double quotes in form fields and submitting them

2002-03-23 Thread webapprentice
Hi, foobar becomes simply \ I've lost foobar AND the double quotes. Is there a way to keep them all? --Stephen - Original Message - From: Miguel Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: webapprentice [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 7:49 PM Subject: Re: [PHP

[PHP] The infamous HTML quotes Re: [PHP] Double quotes in form fields and submitting them

2002-03-23 Thread webapprentice
[realName])); or stripslashes(htmlspecialcharacters($HTTP_POST_VARS[realName])); Thanks for your help in leading me to the right direction. - Original Message - From: Miguel Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: webapprentice [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 8:03

[PHP] Double quotes in form fields and submitting them

2002-03-22 Thread webapprentice
Hi, I have a form with a text field, say userName. I put a value in that has double quotes (i.e. foobar) and submit this form. On output I have this: ?php echo $HTTP_POST_VARS[userName]; ? The output ends up being a \. How do I keep the double quotes? Thanks, Stephen

[PHP] Re: Variables within a string

2002-03-11 Thread webapprentice
Oh, so that's how you deal with indexed variables inside of double quotes... I can't believe that has eluded me for so long... --- From: Jason Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:09:15

[PHP] Variables within a string

2002-03-10 Thread webapprentice
Hello, When I try to do this: $foo = Entry for for $HTTP_POST_VARS[\name\]; I receive this error: Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_STRING' or `T_VARIABLE' or `T_NUM_STRING' on line X Why does it do this, and how do I get around this, besides assigning the value of $HTTP_POST_VARS[\name\]

Re: [PHP] Checking the season

2002-01-05 Thread webapprentice
I'll have to use and if/elseif construct, because I don't believe a switch() constructs cases can take expressions, can it? - Original Message - From: Bogdan Stancescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: webapprentice [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 11:38 AM

Re: [PHP] Checking the season

2002-01-05 Thread webapprentice
longer than what is here.) - Original Message - From: Tom Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: webapprentice [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Bogdan Stancescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 11:17 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Checking the season Hi This should work: ? $year

[PHP] Checking the season

2002-01-04 Thread webapprentice
Hi, Just need a sounding board to help me think this through. I want to check the current date to determine what season it is and display the appropriate picture. I define spring as 03/21/, summer as 06/21/, autumn as 09/21/, and winter as 12/21/. I form a string for the