Re: How to define varibles

On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, jcrowe wrote: > I am new at php ('bout 2 days now) I have made a page that submits a form to > itself but I am getting the following warnings. > > Warning: Undefined variable: > > I know that this is caused by the error settings in php.ini and I have > changed it on my local machine but the hosting company has not changed this > setting on there boxes. > > My question is Can I work around this somehow? Is there a way to Define the > Varibles? > I know that in cold fusion you can set a varible to NULL if it doesn't have > a value. anything similar in php? > > Thanks, > Jason > Three things: 1) Use error_reporting() to exclude warnings. (Bad Idea) 2) Assign false to the variable first. (Not Quite As Bad An Idea) 3) Use isset() to detect whether or not a variable exists before reading from it. (What I Do) -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>