Re: Joining fixed text to a SUBJECT variable

From:	Maciek Sokolewicz	Date:	Sat, 02 Mar 2013 12:03:24 +0000
Subject:	Re: Joining fixed text to a SUBJECT variable
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On 2-3-2013 12:23, Lester Caine wrote:

Michael CALDER wrote:
$Subject = "RVRA Contact Form - ,$MessageSubject"; Can anyone please advise or point me in the right direction for instructions on how to combine the fixed text with the variable $MessageSubject.
The quick fix is simply $Subject = "RVRA Contact Form - ".$MessageSubject; but $Subject = "RVRA Contact Form - ,$MessageSubject"; should work, what is the error? ... you don't actually want the ',' $Subject = "RVRA Contact Form - $MessageSubject"; Should work as well

No it shouldn't, unless you have register_globals turned On. Which most hosts don't (and shouldn't) do. The problem is the simple fact that the variable $MessageSubject is not defined until 4 lines farther into the script. Changing the variable to $_POST['MessageSubject'] (and concatenating using the concatenation operator (the period: '.' )) should fix this for you. If Michael had E_NOTICE errors turned on, he would see an E_NOTICE: "Undefined variable" on line 6. Apparently, he doesn't show E_NOTICEs either.