PLEASE HELP - Very odd problem

[cpptutor2000]

I am new to PHP and I am having a very odd problem. Could some PHP
guru please help.

I am passing some variables from one page to the next, and in the
starting page, I have:

<div id="navigation " align="center">
<form NAME="addnewpoe tpoemform" METHOD="GET"
ACTION="addpoet poem.php">
<table align="center">
<tr>
<td width="20%">Poe t Name:</td>
<td width="80%"><in put TYPE="text" NAME="newpoet" SIZE="30"
MAXLENGTH="30"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="20%">Poe m Name:</td>
<td width="80%"><in put TYPE="text" NAME="newpoem" SIZE="30"
MAXLENGTH="30"> <$
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center"> <input TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Add Poet and
Poem"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

When the receiving page opens I can see, in the URL text box the
values that have been passed in.
However, I am unable to echo these values. If I have:
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<?php
// import_request_ variables(gP,"" );
$recdpoet=$_GET['newpoet']
$recdpoem=$_GET['newpoem'];
if(isset($recdp oet) and strlen($recdpoe t) 0)
echo $recdpoet;
?>
</td>
</tr>

The page opens completely blank. What might be
going wrong? I have tried uncommenting the above line, but it does not
work.
Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

[Toby A Inkster]

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

I agree, Tony.

Jerry, surely we've been posting in the same groups for long enough by now
for you to have learnt how to spell my name?

echo statements work quite well.

function debug_them ()
{
for ( $i=1 ; $i<func_num_arg s() ; $i++ )
{
$val = func_get_arg($i );
if (is_array($val) )
print_r($val);
else
print $val;
print "\n----\n";
}
if (func_get_arg(0 )) exit();
}

usage:

debug_them(FALS E, $_SESSION, $some_array, $some_var);
debug_them(TRUE , $_POST);

The first parameter says whether the script should exit after outputting
the other parameters.

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[Jerry Stuckle]

Toby A Inkster wrote:

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

>I agree, Tony.

Jerry, surely we've been posting in the same groups for long enough by now
for you to have learnt how to spell my name?

>echo statements work quite well.

function debug_them ()
{
for ( $i=1 ; $i<func_num_arg s() ; $i++ )
{
$val = func_get_arg($i );
if (is_array($val) )
print_r($val);
else
print $val;
print "\n----\n";
}
if (func_get_arg(0 )) exit();
}

usage:

debug_them(FALS E, $_SESSION, $some_array, $some_var);
debug_them(TRUE , $_POST);

The first parameter says whether the script should exit after outputting
the other parameters.

Sorry, Toby. Believe it or not - my spell checker "corrected" your name
and I missed it. I've now added your name to the dictionary so it
doesn't happen again :-)

And yes, I use something similar, except I use a class with static
functions and a static variable. If the variable is true it prints the
info.

That way I can say something like:

Debug::setFlag( true);
Debug::dump($va r);
Debug::print_r( $array);

Turn things on and off with the setFlag member. And a file quick search
on Debug:: will find the references to delete them. Or I can just
create a dummy debug class which does nothing (and therefore has very
little overhead).

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[Toby A Inkster]

Mike Russell wrote:

If you work well without a debugger, more power to you. IDE's and debug
environments are used by skilled professionals all the time, and I hope you
will forgive me if I suggest that, as experienced and productive as you are,
you would be even more productive with a *good* debug environment.

I do always try new IDEs and whizzy development tools as I become aware of
them -- Eclipse, Screem, etc -- but none have ever seemed to really help
me in any way. I'm sure if I stuck at them, then I might reap some
long-term reward, but I don't really want to invest the time unless I can
get *something*, maybe just a *little* advantage, straight away. They need
to offer me a carrot.

A decent editor with syntax highlighting is my main tool. If I mistype
something, which I am wont to do, then it will be a different colour than
that which I was expecting, so I'll spot it pretty damn quickly. Having a
locally installed server is a godsend too. And I do virtually all my file
management at the command line. Very simple tools that don't get in my
way, and don't do things unless I tell them to do so. And my comparatively
recent (about 2 months ago) discovery of phpDoc is proving very helpful
too. I've always commented my code fairly well, but phpDoc provides me
with a rigorous framework for documenting PHP files, and gives me an
instant reward (the generated, and very readable documentation).

Different working patterns work for different people -- that's the way I've
found works best for me.

As an aside, as I'm mentioning text editors: I use various combinations of
Nedit, SciTE, Nano and TextWrangler depending on which OS I'm using at the
time, and what sort of edit it's likely to be.

--
Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact
Geek of ~ HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python*/Apache/Linux

* = I'm getting there!