andrew.cox2 Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 Hi I am fairly new to PHP. I'm currently learning from the O'Reilly book Web Database Applications. The example in the book doesn't work and I can't figure out why. It should work by providing a link when I load example.6-12.php into the the browser. When clicked that link passes the parameters into example.6-13.php which prints the results of those two print statements that should have been passed to the server and back. I'm sure example.6-13.php should have a $connection = mysql_connect(hostname, user, password) function to make it work. As I see it there is no code to even connect to the server. This code is directly from the books website webdatabasebook.com. Any ideas?? Example.6-12.php <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>Explore Wines</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff"> Explore all our <a href="example.6-13.php?regionName=All&wineType=All"> wines</a> <br>Explore our <a href="example.6-13.php?regionName=All&wineType=Red"> red wines</a> <br>Explore our <a href="example.6-13.php?regionName=Riverland&wineType=Red"> premium reds from the Riverland</a> <br> <a href="index.html">Home</a></body> </html> Example.6-13.php <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>Parameters</title> </head> <body> <?php require "db.inc"; print "regionName is {$_GET["regionName"]}\n"; print "<br>wineType is {$_GET["wineType"]}\n"; ?> </body> </html> db.inc file <?php // This file is the same as example 6-7, but includes mysqlclean() and shellclean() $hostName = "127.0.0.1"; $databaseName = "winestore"; $username = "myUserName"; $password = "myPassword"; function showerror() { die("Error " . mysql_errno() . " : " . mysql_error()); } function mysqlclean($array, $index, $maxlength, $connection) { if (isset($array["{$index}"])) { $input = substr($array["{$index}"], 0, $maxlength); $input = mysql_real_escape_string($input, $connection); return ($input); } return NULL; } function shellclean($array, $index, $maxlength) { if (isset($array["{$index}"])) { $input = substr($array["{$index}"], 0, $maxlength); $input = EscapeShellArg($input); return ($input); } return NULL; } ?> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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