Re: GET / POST

Looks like you've got a syntax error trying to concatentate strings. $msg = "Sender Name:\t" . $_POST['sender_name'] . "\n"; (notice the dots there inbetween the quotes... it's easier to see when you have an editor that has syntax highlighting). -Dash If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door. -- Paul Beatty On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Carl Caamano wrote: > What I really would like to know is how do I change this line to a PHP4 > compatible line without having the register_global set to on. > The orginal code is > > $msg = "Sender Name:\t $sender_name\n"; > > I've tried these: > > $msg = "Sender Name:\t $_POST['sender_name']\n"; > $msg = "Sender Name:\t" $_POST['sender_name'] "\n"; > $msg = "Sender Name:\t"+ $_POST['sender_name']+ "\n"; > The first two I get a parse error, the last I get the value 0. I can easily > do $msg = $_POST['sender_name']; , but some how I can't get it to work with > text added. I even figured out an echo statement by doing echo "blah > blah",$_POST['varible']."blah". However it doesn't work for > assigning a > varible. perhaps $msg = "blah"; $msg .= $_POST['varible']; $msg > .="blah > blah" would work? I haven't tried that yet. I am assuming .= is some sort > of appending or concatintating operator. > "Matt Kynaston" <Matt.Kynaston@etbroker.com> wrote in message > > news:BE5DDBE9A328774A91074615783088FA07A480@etbs2k02.etbroker.int... > > Like I said, I'm lazy too. I guess the security risks are down to giving > any > > user the chance to set any variable on your page to whatever they feel > like > > at the beginning of the script - by simply playing with the > > <truncated> > > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >