error

why does this receive an error?
$conhead .= "From: $_Post["name"] <$_Post["name"]>\r\n";

Fire Juggler <firejuggler@firejugglers.34sp.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> why does this receive an error?
> $conhead .= "From: $_Post["name"] <$_Post["name"]>\r\n";[/color]

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php

that doesn't help, could u please explain.

"Daniel Tryba" <partmapsswen@invalid.tryba.nl> wrote in message
news:4242d3b7$0$149$c5fe704e@news6.xs4all.nl...[color=blue]
> Fire Juggler <firejuggler@firejugglers.34sp.com> wrote:[color=green]
> > why does this receive an error?
> > $conhead .= "From: $_Post["name"] <$_Post["name"]>\r\n";[/color]
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php
>[/color]

PHP is probably getting confused with the quotes (you have double
quotes inside a double-quoted string. Instead, write:

$conhead .= "From: " . $_POST["name"] . "<" . $_POST["name"] . ">\r\n";

Fire Juggler wrote:
[color=blue]
> that doesn't help, could u please explain.
>
> "Daniel Tryba" <partmapsswen@invalid.tryba.nl> wrote in message
> news:4242d3b7$0$149$c5fe704e@news6.xs4all.nl...[color=green]
>> Fire Juggler <firejuggler@firejugglers.34sp.com> wrote:[color=darkred]
>> > why does this receive an error?
>> > $conhead .= "From: $_Post["name"] <$_Post["name"]>\r\n";[/color]
>>
>> http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php
>>[/color][/color]

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

More specifically:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-...ns.html#before