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... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > DB_DataObject_FormBuilder - The database at your fingertips > > > > > http://pear.php.net/package/DB_DataObject_FormBuilder > > > > > > > > > > paperCrane --Justin Patrin-- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > DB_DataObject_FormBuilder - The database at your fingertips > > > http://pear.php.net/package/DB_DataObject_FormBuilder > > > > > > paperCrane --Justin Patrin-- > > > > > > -- > DB_DataObject_FormBuilder - The database at your fingertips > http://pear.php.net/package/DB_DataObject_FormBuilder > > paperCrane --Justin Patrin-- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php