[earthone]

We are trying to write a very basic script what it should do is call a section of text when we pull a url so when we use

Code:

http://oursite.org/folder/member.php?text=this

it should display the correct text section.

Can anyone tell us what we are doing wrong and how to fix it.

Thank you.

PHP Code:

<?php

if (!$text) {die('No text selected');}

elseif($text='this') {echo '<div class="topbar">This Text goes here</div>'; }

elseif($text='that') {echo '<div class="topbar">That Text goes here</div>'; }

?>

[End User]

You probably need to explicitly extract the "text" variable:

PHP Code:

$text = $_GET['text'];
if (!$text) {die('No text selected');}
elseif($text==]'this') {echo '<div class="topbar">This Text goes here</div>'; }
elseif($text=='that') {echo '<div class="topbar">That Text goes here</div>'; } 

Also notice that you need two equal signs to test a variable, otherwise you're actually assigning the word 'this' or 'that' to the variable $text.

[earthone]

Cool it worked there was only one problem you put ] in there after the first text most likely an accident but thank you very much.

[earthone]

Im not sure how to or if Im suppose to but this question has been answered and is completed

[wirehopper]

PHP Code:

elseif($text==]'this') 

<-- remove the [

Different approach:

PHP Code:

if (isset($_GET['text']))  /* Check to see if text was sent */

{

  $sText=strtolower($_GET['text']);  /* Lowercase to ensure comparison on next line works */

  if (in_array($sText,array('this','that')))  /* Ensure the value is this or that */

    echo '<div class="topbar">'.$_GET['text'].'</div>'; /* Display the original value */

  else

    die ('Not this or that');

}

else

  die('No text'); 

[End User]

Originally Posted by earthone

Im not sure how to or if Im suppose to but this question has been answered and is completed

If you want you can click the "Thanks" button. Otherwise they won't pay me and my family will starve and we'll end up living by the side of the freeway in a leaky cardboard box and then I'll have to go back to robbing banks, or even worse, working for Microsoft (and you wouldn't want THAT on your conscience, would you?).