Joseph, Smile Poet wrote:

The names are the same as the column heads in the database table..

Or?.....

This is not an error. PHP is just telling you that you're trying to

use


a variable which has no value.


this I understand

You can change the error reporting level

in the php.ini file, but it would be better coding practice when

taking


form input data to...

a)  Check to see if a variable is set before using it
b)  Be sure you're getting the value you're expecting to ensure that

no


one is trying to circumvent your scripts.


this I don't!    How do I approach a)?   Or is it covered By Bj's
advice that the way of doing it is now different?   Remembering I have
downloaded the server programs only a week or so ago and they are
probably very up to date.

For the first item, you can use php's isset() function...


http://us4.php.net/isset

For the second item, no matter how up-to-date your version of php is, your code can still be circumvented depending on how (in)securely you write your code. I've sent another email addressing this.

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