Re: undefine variable

Michael S. Dunsavage schreef:

On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 22:26 +0100, Ashley Sheridan wrote:

Hi Michael,

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Heh, actually that wasn't the problem after all. Well php still yells @ me about it, but it does work. In fact someone on this list helped me before, sorry if I can't remember your name who it was :).

it's always worthing looking that kind of thing up, people love to see their name in lights you know. on a technical note, it sounds like your script is relying on register_globals being turned on ... this is a bad thing, most notably when your not properly up to speed on the security issues this can bite you in the ass, also register_globals has been depreciated. code that handles form submissions should be doing something like the following to check for and validate input: $selectedStated = isset($_POST['selected_state']) ? intval($_POST['selected_state']) : null ; I encourage you to read up on input validation, etc ... phpsec.org is a good place to start IIRC.

But it wasn't writing to the DB and I discovered I had to change the permissions (it was a backup I had restored) and restart mysql. But you have a lot of useful information in your list, so I'll be keeping it.