<?php echo @$_POST['type']; ?>

[chroni]

I found this in a thread somewhere here, and cannot find it again. It was used as a form value. Weird that a search doesn't give me results?

value='<?php echo @$_POST['type'];  ?>'

Anyway it looked interesting but the thread dropped off before it was explained, so I tried to apply the concept. Now I can't find the thread.

[bvarvel]

I think I remember seeing that post. I believe that '@' symbol is used to tell the system to only display, in your case, TYPE if it contains a value.

It's just for coding standards, I believe.

[firepages]

the '@' supresses the error that PHP may generate if error_reporting is set to E_ALL , e.g. if $_POST['type'] is not set then a warning would be printed to output.

ideally you would(should?) ...

if(isset($_POST['var'])){echo $_POST['var'];}

[hyperimage]

if u once have this sentence:

if(isset($_POST["var"]) your_insert_to_database_function(); 

or

if(!empty($_POST["var"]) your_insert_to_database_function(); 

to input into database.
you just have to put the output form like this:

echo "<input type='text' name='xyz' value='$row[1]'>";
// start count from $row[0] = id 

cya