statement not working (again)

[ukweb]

Hi

 

In all my time developing php apps have i ever encountered so many problems as I have with this project. It has been some time since I last developed anything like this but it is really winding me up as i cannot see where the problems are.

 

The problem page is here:

 

[a href=\"http://www.servewales.co.uk/members/register.php\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.servewales.co.uk/members/register.php[/a]

 

and it is not supposed to display "you did not specify your first name" unless there is a get variable called action which is set to confirm. Here is the code for this line of text:

 

<?php if ( $_POST['first_name']  == '' &&  $_GET['action'] == 'confirm'  ) { ?>
You did not specify your first name
<?php } 
if ( ! ($_POST['first_name'] == "") ) {
$v3 = "1";
}
?>

 

THe last bit of code just sets a value for $v3 which works fine.

 

HELP PLEASE!

[kenrbnsn]

Have you put any debugging lines in your code so you can see what you are actually testing against?

<?php
echo '<pre> $_POST: ' . print_r($_POST,true) . '</pre>'; // debug
echo '<pre> $_GET: ' . print_r($_GET,true) . '</pre>';    // debug
if ($_POST['first_name']  == '' &&  $_GET['action'] == 'confirm') 
    echo 'You did not specify your first name';
if ($_POST['first_name'] != '')
    $v3 = "1";
?>

 

Ken

[.josh]

well at some point in time the 2 conditions of your if statement are being met, and therefore that message is displaying. but you need to post more code than that. there is no way to find the bug based on that.

[craygo]

Post some of your code so we can help out.

 

you could try this

 

if ($_POST['first_name']  == '' &&  $_GET['action'] == 'confirm'){
    echo 'You did not specify your first name';
} else {
echo ' ';
}
if ($_POST['first_name'] != ''){
$v3 = "1";
}

use   and not just a space because mose tables will not print a space so you need the code FOR a space to print.

 

Ray

[servewales]

odd question but did ukweb own this domain in 2006 ???

[hitman6003]

http://bit.ly/1buzMMy