[SOLVED] New boy has problem with the scope of variables

Johnain · November 22, 2007

Hi people

I am an experienced VFP and ABAP developer with a pretty good grasp of HTML, and recently XHTML.

I have always been alittle wary of web based languages (fear of the unknown !) but now I have started with PHP I really like it.

My problem is (I think) with the scope of variables. I have two php pages for the user to send an e-mail, one in French and the other in English. They both build the same form with the same variables, but their HTML text is in different languages. The form's action in each both call the same "validate and send" php page.

Within each "sending" form I create a variable called $langg and set it to EN or FR so I can send out different language texts and <a> jumps afterwards depending on the language.

In the French sending form I say ...

$langgi = "FR";

I do not understand how debuggers work so in my target "validate and send" form I first interpret the lanng variable ...

$langg = $_POST['langg'];

... and then put in an echo to see what I get ...

<table>

</table>

Row 1 gives EN and Row 2 gives FR

Is this a scope issue? Can anybody see what I am doing wrong?

adam291086 · November 22, 2007

i am a little confused. Are you having problems with changing the form to be either in english or french? What are you trying to achieve?

Johnain · November 22, 2007

Hi

Thanks for the reply

I want the user visible stuff in my form to be in french or english.

rajivgonsalves · November 22, 2007

well have to see a little more of your code to tell you that could be a scope issue could be its getting overwritten somewhere..

adam291086 · November 22, 2007

well this may be a long way around but i dont have a lot of php knowledge. Have a bit before the form that say ''english or french''. Then submit that info to a php page. Then create and IF statement that says

if ($lang = french)
{
echo //all your html that makes the french form;
}
else 
echo //all the english form

hope this give you an idea. My If statement may be wrong as i can check it out as i am at work.

Johnain · November 22, 2007

well have to see a little more of your code to tell you that could be a scope issue could be its getting overwritten somewhere..

Hi Rajiv. Thanks for your interest.

I have not put all of the multi-ling code in, just some bits, but here it is

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html>

<head>

<title>Le Pré De Barre :Contact us</title>

</head>

<body>

<?php

$langg = $_POST['langg'];

?>

<h1>Le Pré De Barre </h1>

</div>

<?php

if ($_POST['langg']="EN"){

echo "<p>Training and supporting the horse and rider </p>";

} elseif ($_POST['langg']="FR"){

echo"<p>Formant et soutenant le cheval et le cavalier </p>" ;

} else {

echo "<p>Training and supporting the horse and riderrrrrrr </p>" ;

}

?>

</div>

</div>

<ul>

</ul>

</div>

<table>

</table>

<?php

$ip = $_POST['ip'];

$httpref = $_POST['httpref'];

$httpagent = $_POST['httpagent'];

$visitor = $_POST['visitor'];

$visitormail = $_POST['visitormail'];

$notes = $_POST['notes'];

$attn = $_POST['attn'];

$country = $_POST['country'];

$agerange = $_POST['agerange'];

$telephone = $_POST['telephone'];

$gender = $_POST['gender'];

$errorreported = 0;

$errortext = "";

if (eregi('http:', $notes))

{

$errorreported = 1;

$errortext = "1";

echo "<p>Please do not insert web addresses in your mail</p>";

}

if(!$visitormail == "" && (!strstr($visitormail,"@") || !strstr($visitormail,".")))

{

$errorreported = 2;

$errortext = $errortext.' 2';

echo "<p>You have not entered a valid e-mail address.</p>";

}

if(empty($visitor) || empty($visitormail) || empty($notes ))

{

$errorreported = 3;

$errortext = $errortext.' 3';

echo "<p>We need your e-mail address, name and message content before we can send an e-mail.</p>";

}

if($errorreported > 0 and $langg = "EN")

{

echo "<p>Sorry, your e-mail has not been sent yet because it contains an error or is incomplete.</p>";

?>

<p><a href="contact.php">Click here to return to your e-mail</a></p>

<?php

die ();

}

if($errorreported > 0 and $langg = "FR")

{

echo "<p>Désolé, votre E-mail n'a pas été envoyé encore parce qu'il contient une erreur ou est inachevé.</p>";

?>

<p><a href="contactfr.php">Clic ici à retourner à votre E-mail</a></p>

<?php

die ();

}

$todayis = date("l, F j, Y, g:i a") ;

$attn = $attn ;

$subject = $attn;

$notes = stripcslashes($notes);

$message = " $todayis [EST] \n

Attention: $attn \n

Message: $notes \n

Age Range: $agerange\n

Telephone: $telephone\n

Gender: $gender\n

Country: $country\n

From: $visitor ($visitormail)\n

Additional Info : IP = $ip \n

Browser Info: $httpagent \n

Referral : $httpref \n

";

$from = "From: $visitormail\r\n";

mail("[email protected]", $subject, $message, $from)

?>

<br />

Thank You : <?php echo $visitor ?> ( <?php echo $visitormail ?> )

<br />

Attention: <?php echo $attn ?>

<br />

Message:<br />

<?php $notesout = str_replace("\r", "<br/>", $notes);

echo $notesout; ?>

<br />

<?php echo $ip ?>

<a href="../index.html"> Continue </a>

</p>

</div>

<table>

<tr>

<td style="width:150 align:right"><img src="../images/yippee.jpg" width="135"

height="157" border="0" alt="Yippee !"></td>

</tr>

<tr>

</tr>

</table>

</div>

</body>

</html>

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Regards and thanks

John

Johnain · November 22, 2007

well this may be a long way around but i dont have a lot of php knowledge. Have a bit before the form that say ''english or french''. Then submit that info to a php page. Then create and IF statement that says
if ($lang = french)
{
echo //all your html that makes the french form;
}
else 
echo //all the english form
hope this give you an idea. My If statement may be wrong as i can check it out as i am at work.

Thanks for that Adam. I appreciate your help.

This, however is the equivalent of having two php files with two sets of logic to maintain, and I am trying to avoid that if I can.

Regards

john

rajivgonsalves · November 22, 2007

here is your problem

 <?php
         if ($_POST['langg']="EN"){
            echo "<p>Training and supporting the horse and rider </p>";
         } elseif ($_POST['langg']="FR"){
            echo"<p>Formant et soutenant le cheval et le cavalier </p>" ;
         } else {
               echo "<p>Training and supporting the horse and riderrrrrrr </p>" ;
         }
         ?>

should be

 <?php
         if ($_POST['langg']=="EN"){
            echo "<p>Training and supporting the horse and rider </p>";
         } elseif ($_POST['langg']=="FR"){
            echo"<p>Formant et soutenant le cheval et le cavalier </p>" ;
         } else {
               echo "<p>Training and supporting the horse and riderrrrrrr </p>" ;
         }
         ?>

notice the "==" a "=" is for assignment

adam291086 · November 22, 2007

You can get a form to submit to itself for validation reasons i've seen it happen on here. So you wouldn't require two pages. rajivgonsalves has more experience then me so was able to pick up the coding problem quicker than me.

Johnain · November 22, 2007

here is your problem

 <?php
         if ($_POST['langg']="EN"){
            echo "<p>Training and supporting the horse and rider </p>";
         } elseif ($_POST['langg']="FR"){
            echo"<p>Formant et soutenant le cheval et le cavalier </p>" ;
         } else {
               echo "<p>Training and supporting the horse and riderrrrrrr </p>" ;
         }
         ?>

should be

 <?php
         if ($_POST['langg']=="EN"){
            echo "<p>Training and supporting the horse and rider </p>";
         } elseif ($_POST['langg']=="FR"){
            echo"<p>Formant et soutenant le cheval et le cavalier </p>" ;
         } else {
               echo "<p>Training and supporting the horse and riderrrrrrr </p>" ;
         }
         ?>

notice the "==" a "=" is for assignment

Please regard yourself as a superstar.

I will try it now.

Looks like I have got plenty of learning to do. But no surprises there. I am looking forward to it.

Regards and thanks

Johnain · November 22, 2007

here is your problem

 <?php
         if ($_POST['langg']="EN"){
            echo "<p>Training and supporting the horse and rider </p>";
         } elseif ($_POST['langg']="FR"){
            echo"<p>Formant et soutenant le cheval et le cavalier </p>" ;
         } else {
               echo "<p>Training and supporting the horse and riderrrrrrr </p>" ;
         }
         ?>

should be

 <?php
         if ($_POST['langg']=="EN"){
            echo "<p>Training and supporting the horse and rider </p>";
         } elseif ($_POST['langg']=="FR"){
            echo"<p>Formant et soutenant le cheval et le cavalier </p>" ;
         } else {
               echo "<p>Training and supporting the horse and riderrrrrrr </p>" ;
         }
         ?>

notice the "==" a "=" is for assignment

Please regard yourself as a superstar.

I will try it now.

Looks like I have got plenty of learning to do. But no surprises there. I am looking forward to it.

Regards and thanks

That works. Thanks very much.

Mrs Johnain no longer frightened to come in the room

Regards and thanks

John

rajivgonsalves · November 22, 2007

Your welcome glad to be of help

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