Re: Re: isset question

Gary wrote:

This is what I have now and it works. I do know that on the second line I have $_POST['mort']}\n" : " "; in the second half. I'm not sure I understand the comment about use the !empty if you dont care about PHP. " if you don't care about PHP Notice... "

eror_reporting: http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.error-reporting.php http://us.php.net/manual/en/errorfunc.constants.php#errorfunc.constants.errorlevels.e-notice put error_reporting(E_ALL) on the begining of you page you will get errors, warnings and notices - if any. errors and warnings stop the execution of the code. notice not. notices are usually about not defined variables before you started to use them. if you put error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE) it will not bother you. but I like to do everything "correctly". :-) afan

But this is working, and unless someone sees a problem with it, I will leave it as is. Thank you to everyone for helping. Gary $msg.= !empty($_POST['purchprice']) ? "If this information is completed, it is a new purchase.\n The Purchase Price is $purchprice\n" : " "; $msg.= !empty($_POST['mort']) ? "The mortgage amount is {$_POST['mort']}\n" : " "; $msg.= !empty($_POST['howlong']) ? "The sellers have owned the property for $howlong\n\n\n" : " "; $msg.= !empty($_POST['mortgage']) ? "If this information is completed, it is a refinance.\nThe mortgage amount is $mortgage\n" : " "; $msg.= !empty($_POST['purdate']) ? "The property was originally purchased on $purdate\n" : " "; $msg.= !empty($_POST['datefin']) ? "The property was last financed $datefin\n" : " "; ""Gary"" <gwpaul@ptd.net> wrote in message news:EA.E8.08167.6AC8A3A4@pb1.pair.com...

I have a form that gives the submitter a choice or either one set of questions, or another. I am still getting the message even if the input was left blank. So on the line below, $msg.= isset($_POST['mort']) ? "The mortgage amount is $mort\n" : " "; I get The mortgage amount is What am I missing here? Thanks Gary