Re: possible variable declaration error

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Daniel Brown <danbrown@php.net> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 08:18, matty jones <urlugal@gmail.com> wrote: > > I get the following error " PHP Notice: Undefined index: publisher in > > /var/www/testfunctions.php on line 65" and I have narrowed it down to > what I > > *think* is a variable not being declared. Here is the code. > > This line is the issue: > > > if ($d_series_fetch ->execute(array($_GET['publisher']))) { > > $_GET is populated, in part, by the query string --- the data > following the question mark in your browser. For example: > > http://example.com/fake.php?publisher=Random%20House > > <?php echo $_GET['publisher']; // Output: Random House ?> > > So, as you can see, it's complaining because you didn't give it > that information. If you don't always want to have to do so, surround > it with an isset() case. > > I used the format of your link and that gave me something like what I was looking for, so I am sure now the error is just in my markup. How would I get this to work without passing it a value or does the function not work like that, in which case no biggy I am just trying to figure all this out the old fashioned way. I read the manual page for the function and I thought that the type of setup I was using would work. > -- > </Daniel P. Brown> > Network Infrastructure Manager > http://www.php.net/ >