aaah, simple for you..
I have to fit that line into the following:
$colauthor_rsResults = "0";
if (isset($_GET['Author'])) {
$colauthor_rsResults = (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) ? $_GET['Author'] :
addslashes($_GET['Author']);
}
and don't know how to do that.....also, I am using GET....
"Justin Patrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:00:39 -0400, melissa atchley
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have a search page with three parameters....author, title and journal.
> >
> > I typed in "heart" in the title text area and hit the return button,
> > thinking it would activate the search button. it merely did a carriage
> > return in the text area, then I hit the submit button.
> >
> > the result came back as null, as there is not title that has the word
> > "heart" in it with a carriage return afterwards. if I take our the
return,
> > it finds the heart articles.
> >
> > I tried a similar thing in the author section, putting a space after the
> > author name...same empty results.
> >
> > I would like to fix that.
> >
>
> Ok, this is simple. Assuming you pass in author as the variable author
> in POST...
>
> $author = trim($_POST['author']);
>
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >
> > > What exactly are you trying to do? trim() only rmeoves whitespace from
> > > the beginning and end of a string. It doesn't work on a record / array
> > > and it doesn't pull all whitespace from the string.
> > >
> > > $str = ' whitespace before and after ';
> > > $trimmedStr = trim($str);
> > > $noWhitespaceStr = preg_replace('/\s/', '', $str);
> > >
> > > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:54:22 -0400, melissa atchley
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > thanks guys...but with all of the >>>> in the message, the syntax is
not
> > > > coming through.
> > > >
> > > > I have tried adding the trim() line in several ways and it isn't
> > working.
> > > > can you help me with the exact syntax?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Justin Patrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > To: "John W. Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Cc: "msa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 1:12 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: [PHP] trim() white space from record set
> > > >
> > > > > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:41:55 -0400, John W. Holmes
> > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > > msa wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > I created a search form with multiple search parameters. It
> > returns
> > > > nothing
> > > > > > > if there is a space after their text entry or if they hit
return
> > in
> > > > the text
> > > > > > > area.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > $coltitle_rsResults = "0";
> > > > > > > if (isset($_GET['Title'])) {
> > > > > > $_GET['title'] = trim($_GET['title']);
> > > > > > > $coltitle_rsResults = (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) ?
$_GET['Title']
> > :
> > > > > > > addslashes($_GET['Title']);
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > where do i put the trim?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > See above. You have to assign the result of trim() to a
variable. My
> > > > > > crystal ball (it's back off of loan now) says that was the
issue. :)
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Ugh....damn Perl and its auto-assign and $_ features. It makes
people
> > > > > assume things...
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --
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> > > > >
> > > > > paperCrane --Justin Patrin--
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > > paperCrane --Justin Patrin--
> >
> >
>
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