Re: Mixing $_POST with text in a variable

Markus Stobbs wrote:

I'm changing my HTTP POST variable declarations from $variablename to $_POST['variablename'] to make my code more compliant with current best practices. However, I find that I cannot mix these new variable declarations into big variable strings like I used to. For example, this works: $message = " Name: $Name Division: $Division Phone: $Phone Email: $Email"; ...but when I change $Name and the other variables to $_POST['Name'], I get this error: Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /web/scd/vets/Vislab/eventrequest.php on line 94

When you have a variable that is inside a text string (double quotes) like that then you do not need to have the quotes for your array index. So in your case something like this should work: $message = " Name: $_POST[Name] Division: $_POST[Division] Phone: $_POST[Phone] Email: $_POST[Email]";