RE: [PHP] newbie problem working with Forms - undefined constant?

What its saying is that you're using a define called password You haven't declared that define to be a value, so its making the contents password. Eg <?php print "password:". PASSWORD; ?> Here we haven't defined PASSWORD to be anything, so its making PASSWORD equal PASSWORD password:PASSWORD But here <?php define("PASSWORD", "its a secret"); print "password:". PASSWORD; ?> We have defined password, so it will show: password:its a secret Lesson one. Declare you're variables before you use them. Or turn off warnings about undeclared vars... -----Original Message----- From: Philip Lindsay [mailto:phil@presence-multimedia.co.uk] Sent: November 15, 2000 05:51 PM To: PHP list Subject: [PHP] newbie problem working with Forms - undefined constant? Hi, I've really only been using PHP for three weeks though so bear with me if this sounds a bit daft. I have some scripts which piece together to build a message board with a mysql database. The scripts come from the SAMS book - Teach Yourself PHP in 24 hours (ch. 23). On one of the pages is a form which extracts the users details and logs them into the database when they join - but I receive errors such as : Warning: Use of undefined constant password - assumed 'password' in c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\mysql\join.php on line 11 I have the value of each input box as form[login], form[password] etc.. and it seems to be tripping over these. Can anyone shed any light on this problem? I can send the code if it may help? Cheers in advance, Phil -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net