Re: Mixing $_POST with text in a variable
| From: | Torsten Roehr | Date: | Mon, 19 Jul 2004 18:19:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Mixing $_POST with text in a variable | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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"Markus Stobbs" <mstobbs@ucar.edu> wrote in message
news:20040719171955.93613.qmail@pb1.pair.com...
> 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 $_POST['Name'], I
> get this error:
>
> Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE,
> expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in
> /web/scd/vets/Vislab/eventrequest.php on line 94
>
> Is there any clean way to avoid having to completely reconstruct all my
> form mail messages by constantly closing quotes, using . to connect text
> and variables within the larger variable.
>
> Markus
Hi Markus,
try putting curly braces around the POST values like "{$_POST['Name']}".
Regards, Torsten Roehr