Re: Re: Declare variables in advance question

Colin Guthrie wrote:

nitrox . wrote:

I want to declare these variables Game_id and Member_id in advance. Following the suggestionfrom one of my books can I do something like this:

$expected = array('Game_id', 'Member_id');foreach($expected AS $key) {    if ( !empty($_POST[$key])) {      ${$key} = $_POST[$key];    }    else {     ${$key} = NULL;    }}      case "addmember":      switch ($_GET['type']) {        case "membergame":          $sql = "INSERT INTO xsm_membergames                    (Game_id,                    Member_id)                  VALUES                    ('" . mysql_real_escape_string((int)$_POST["Game_id"])) . "',                    '" . mysql_real_escape_string((int)$_POST["Member_id"])) . "')";          break;      }      break; My concern is did I achieve anything with the code I just added to declare the variables? Is it actually being passed to this:      case "addmember":      switch ($_GET['type']) {        case "membergame":          $sql = "INSERT INTO xsm_membergames                    (Game_id,                    Member_id)                  VALUES                    ('" . mysql_real_escape_string((int)$_POST["Game_id"]) . "',                    '" . mysql_real_escape_string((int)$_POST["Member_id"]) . "')";          break;      }      break; I did add this and tested it on my server and I didnt recieve any errors. So how can I be sure its doing what I intended? _________________________________________________________________

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Your code is not formatted very nicly in your mail which makes it very hard to read, but it's also invalid. There is a case statement in there without a switch to control it.... twice.

That being the case the fact that you didn't get any errors indicates that you have PHP configured to not show errors, warnings and notices. I strongly recommend you modify your php.ini and set display_errors to on and error_reporting to E_ALL. Then restart your web server and try your script again. You should then see lots of errors. -Stut -- http://stut.net/