Yeah, well... Query String you, too!

[Purgatory]

I won't hesitate to say I'm very new to PHP, and getting into query strings is probably way over my level. I found a pretty good tutorial that introduced it very well, and using a bit of what I thought to be logic, I was hoping I could do something a bit more complicated. Apparently I messed up somewhere. It's not an error, but more that the test data I put in isn't displaying on the site and there's no sign of it in the source code. I'm pretty sure I know which file the issue is in, so I'll post that contents of that here. If it looks fine, I can share my other files as well.

<?php
 include("content/prof/keit.php");
 include("content/prof/naru.php");
 include("content/prof/mits.php");

 if($HTTP_GET_VARS['char'] == 'Keitaro')
  {
   $desc = "$keit";
  }
 elseif($HTTP_GET_VARS['char'] == 'Naru')
  {
   $desc = "$naru";
  }
 elseif($HTTP_GET_VARS['char'] == 'Kitsune')
  {
   $desc = "$mits";
  }

 $PageTitle = ("Winter Wish - Character Profiles");
 require("templates/header.php");
 require("templates/navigation.php");
 $LocFile = ("profile.php");
 $LocTitle = ("Character Profiles");
 require("templates/location.php");
 require("content/prof/cont.php");
 require("templates/footer.html");
?>

The $desc variable is placed within cont.php.

[Phil.Roberts]

This is off-topic for Advanced PHP. Also you haven't clearly explained what your problem is.

[Purgatory]

This is off-topic for Advanced PHP. Also you haven't clearly explained what your problem is.

I apologize. I wasn't sure exactly how difficult this issue was, just that I was completely baffled.

As for my issue, I'll explain it as simply as I can:

To test this all out, I input the following into keit.php:

<?php
 $keit = "stuff lalalala";
?>

Then I went to http://www.winter-wish.com/profile.php?char=Keitaro. If the code in my previous post is right, then it should display the aforementioned data (stuff lalalala) on the page. Instead, it displays nothing. No error, no text, nothing. All there is is a blank space in the source code where stuff lalalala should be.

Is that better?

[webchick]

Hmmm.. seems to be working fine here..?

http://webchick.net/sp/profile.php?char=Keitaro (prints: stuff lalalala)

I used the following abbreviated files to test:

keit.php

<?php
$keit = "stuff lalalala";
?>

profile.php

<?php

include('keit.php');


 if($HTTP_GET_VARS['char'] == 'Keitaro')
  {
   $desc = "$keit";
  }
elseif($HTTP_GET_VARS['char'] == 'Naru')
  {
   $desc = "$naru";
  }
elseif($HTTP_GET_VARS['char'] == 'Kitsune')
  {
   $desc = "$mits";
  } 

echo $desc;

?>

Maybe check whatever file is displaying the results and make sure it's echoing $desc correctly?

[Purgatory]

That's a good point. I figured that I could just use $desc in the display file, but that could definitely be wrong. How should it be echoed?

EDIT: The file, in its simple glory:

<?php
 $desc
?>

[webchick]

The code to echo the $desc variable is just:

<?php echo $desc; ?>

This will print the contents of $desc to the screen.

Btw, if the code you posted above actually *is* the entire file, you're missing a semi-colon which should've triggered a parse error..?

[Purgatory]

There we go, that works. Thanks a lot!