problem writing text search function

[Matthew Robinson]

i get "Parse error: parse error in /home/houseproudlancs_co_uk/search.php
on line 65" when i open the page, line 65 would be the line that starts
with if (textsearch

$search_for = "is";
$the_items_description = "this is where the description would go";
if (textsearch($item_category) == true {
echo ("correct");
} else {
echo ("incorrect");
}
function textsearch($the_items_description)
{

$pos = strpos($the_items_description, $search_for);

if ($pos === false) {
textsearch = false;
} else {
textsearch = true;
}

[Tom Thackrey]

On 9-Jan-2004, Matthew Robinson <ma*************@hotmail.com> wrote:

i get "Parse error: parse error in /home/houseproudlancs_co_uk/search.php
on line 65" when i open the page, line 65 would be the line that starts
with if (textsearch

$search_for = "is";
$the_items_description = "this is where the description would go";
if (textsearch($item_category) == true {
echo ("correct");
} else {
echo ("incorrect");
}

You need another ) on the if

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[Boyd]

In article <pa****************************@hotmail.com>,
ma*************@hotmail.com says...

i get "Parse error: parse error in /home/houseproudlancs_co_uk/search.php
on line 65" when i open the page, line 65 would be the line that starts
with if (textsearch

$search_for = "is";
$the_items_description = "this is where the description would go";
if (textsearch($item_category) == true {

2 open brackets and only on closed.
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[Matthew Robinson]

that didn't help unfortunately (please forgive me for the VB coder type
error - im used to VB wiping my bum for me) any other idea's?

[Tom Thackrey]

On 9-Jan-2004, Matthew Robinson <ma*************@hotmail.com> wrote:

that didn't help unfortunately (please forgive me for the VB coder type
error - im used to VB wiping my bum for me) any other idea's?

consider quoting whatever the hell you are referring to and what you did and
what the new problem is.

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[Matthew Robinson]

the original problem was i get "Parse error: parse error in
/home/houseproudlancs_co_uk/search.php on line 65" when i open the page,
line 65 would be the line that starts with if (textsearch

the help suggested was to put the missing ) on the if statement, i have
done this (as below) and it didn't help

$search_for = "is";
$the_items_description = "this is where the description would go";
if (textsearch($item_category)) == true {
echo ("correct");
} else {
echo ("incorrect");
}
function textsearch($the_items_description)
{

$pos = strpos($the_items_description, $search_for);

if ($pos === false) {
textsearch = false;
} else {
textsearch = true;
}

[Pedro Graca]

Matthew Robinson wrote:

that didn't help unfortunately (please forgive me for the VB coder type
error - im used to VB wiping my bum for me) any other idea's?

if (textsearch($item_category) == true {

_______^__________^______________^________________ __________ ???????

where did you put the missing ")"?
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[Matthew Robinson]

On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 22:55:12 +0000, Pedro Graca wrote:

Matthew Robinson wrote:

that didn't help unfortunately (please forgive me for the VB coder type
error - im used to VB wiping my bum for me) any other idea's?

if (textsearch($item_category) == true {

_______^__________^______________^________________ __________ ???????

where did you put the missing ")"?

it was
if (textsearch($item_category) == true {

i replaced this with
if (textsearch($item_category)) == true {

[Pedro Graca]

Matthew Robinson wrote:

it was
if (textsearch($item_category) == true {

i replaced this with
if (textsearch($item_category)) == true {

And as you've seen that is still wrong.
Try again.

Hint: check the if() syntax
http://www.php.net/manual/en/control...-structures.if
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[Tom Thackrey]

On 9-Jan-2004, Matthew Robinson <ma*************@hotmail.com> wrote:

if (textsearch($item_category)) == true {

You put the missing ) in the wrong place it should be:

if (textsearch($item_category) == true) {
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[Chung Leong]

PHP use the keyword "return" for returning a value from a function. And
variables are not global by default. Hence:

function textsearch($the_items_description)
{
global $search_for;

$pos = strpos($the_items_description, $search_for);

if ($pos === false) {
return false;
} else {
return true;
}
}

or shorter:

function textsearch($the_items_description)
{
global $search_for;

$pos = strpos($the_items_description, $search_for);

return ($pos !== false);
}

or shorter still:

strstr($the_items_description, $search_for);

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i get "Parse error: parse error in /home/houseproudlancs_co_uk/search.php
on line 65" when i open the page, line 65 would be the line that starts
with if (textsearch

$search_for = "is";
$the_items_description = "this is where the description would go";
if (textsearch($item_category) == true {
echo ("correct");
} else {
echo ("incorrect");
}
function textsearch($the_items_description)
{

$pos = strpos($the_items_description, $search_for);

if ($pos === false) {
textsearch = false;
} else {
textsearch = true;
}

[Geoff Berrow]

I noticed that Message-ID: <pa****************************@hotmail.com>
from Matthew Robinson contained the following:

$search_for = "is";
$the_items_description = "this is where the description would go";
if (textsearch($item_category)) == true {
echo ("correct");
} else {
echo ("incorrect");
}

well you know it should be

if (textsearch($item_category) == true){...}

now, but for this test did you not perhaps mean to write

$item_category = "this is where the description would go";
if (textsearch($item_category == true)) {...}
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