[My User Defined Function Throws An Error]

Jesi you are a saint.  I can't tell you how much I appreciate your help.  In trying to get this to work, I've tried to reduce the code to the bare minimum.  Anyway, here's a repaste of the code (and yep, this is all the code):

 

<?php

 

function clean($text) {

  return strip_tags($text);

}

 

 

$firstname = clean('Dave <br>');

 

 

clean();

?>

 

The  $firstname = clean  is all on one line.

 

I tightened up the code a bit so the new error message is:

 

Parse error: parse error in /Library/WebServer/Documents/php_default_website/dev/contact_us/test.php on line 3

 

 

Line 3 is: return strip_tags($text);

[My User Defined Function Throws An Error]

Hello everyone.  I'm trying to write my first function and having all kinds of trouble.

 

Here's what I've got so far:

 

<?php

 

function clean($text) {

  return strip_tags($text);

}

 

 

$firstname = clean('Dave <br>');

 

 

clean();

?>

 

I am basically just trying to get the function to remove any html from a variable, but I get this error message:

 

Parse error: parse error in /Library/WebServer/Documents/php_default_website/dev/contact_us/test.php on line 7

 

Any suggestions?

 

dlc

[A Better Way To Code This]

Hello everyone.  I wrote a bit of code to thwart spammers trying to hijack my form processing script.  I have 3 files in play...1 form that a user fills out, a form processor, and a Thank You page.

 

I have a question about code in my form processor.  Here's a bit of the code in question:

 

//get the variables posted from the form

$firstname = $_POST['FirstName'];

$lastname = $_POST['LastName'];

$organization = $_POST['OrgName'];

$address1 = $_POST['Address1'];

$address2 = $_POST['Address2'];

$city = $_POST['City'];

$state = $_POST['State'];

$zip = $_POST['Zip'];

$phone = $_POST['Phone'];

$phonehome = $_POST['PhoneHome'];

$phonework = $_POST['PhoneWork'];

$phonecell= $_POST['PhoneCell'];

$email = $_POST['Email'];

$message = $_POST['Message'];

//FOLLOWING ITEM IS USED FOR EMAIL FRIEND FEATURE

$senderemail = $_POST['SenderEmail'];

 

 

////////  TRIM THE ENDS OF THE STRING TO REMOVE ANY EMPTY SPACES

$firstname = trim($firstname);

$lastname = trim($lastname);

$organization = trim($organization);

$address1 = trim($address1);

$address2 = trim($address2);

$city = trim($city);

$state = trim($state);

$zip = trim($zip);

$phonehome = trim($phonehome);

$phonework = trim($phonework);

$phonecell= trim($phonecell);

$email = trim($email);

$phone = trim($phone);

$message = trim($message);

$senderemail = trim($senderemail);

 

////////  STRIP HTML AND PHP TAGS FROM THE STRINGS

$firstname = strip_tags($firstname);

$lastname = strip_tags($lastname);

$organization = strip_tags($organization);

$address1 = strip_tags($address1);

$address2 = strip_tags($address2);

$city = strip_tags($city);

$state = strip_tags($state);

$zip = strip_tags($zip);

$phonehome = strip_tags($phonehome);

$phonework = strip_tags($phonework);

$phonecell= strip_tags($phonecell);

$email = strip_tags($email);

$phone = strip_tags($phone);

$message = strip_tags($message);

$senderemail = strip_tags($senderemail);

 

I know there has to be a better, more compact way to write this bit of code.  Would I use an array?

 

Code examples greatly appreciated as I am a php novice (but learnin more every day!).

 

Anyone have suggestions for compacting this code?  FYI, there are more blocks of code in my file. I pasted 3 blocks of code above just so you can get the idea of how I wrote the code.

 

Thanks in advance for any advice.

 

dlc

[Code displays in php generated email]

Hello everyone.  I have a script that is used to process a contact form.  When I receive the email from the script I see code in the email, like this:

[code]

From: DAVE@MYHOST.COM X-pstn-levels: (S:16.29645/99.90000 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) X-pstn-settings: 5 (2.0000:2.0000) s gt3 gt2 gt1 r p m c X-pstn-addresses: from forward (good recip) [561/25]

[/code]

The rest of the email is fine.

Here's a bit of the code that generates the email:

[code]

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= "To: dave@myhost.com" . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= "From: $email" . "\r\n";

if ($_POST['id'] == 'book') {
$headers .= 'Cc: tom@myhost.com' . "\r\n";
}

// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $messagecontent, $headers);

}

[/code]

Anyone have suggestions?

[Simplifying my code]

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