Hello Gary,
Please research the difference between a single quote and a double quote.
Also, you can use the operator .=(dot + equal) in this manner:
if(!empty($_POST['fname'])) {
$msg .= "$lname\n";
} else if(!empty($_POST['lname'])) {
$msg .= "$lname\n";
}
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Gary <gp...@paulgdesigns.com> wrote:
>
> ""Daevid Vincent"" <dae...@daevid.com> wrote in message
> news:7d7c84d94dd24035a620e68b5b937...@mascorp.com...
> >> ----- Original message -----
> >> From: Gary <gp...@paulgdesigns.com>
> >> To: php-general@lists.php.net <php-general@lists.php.net>
> >> Date: Monday, December 13, 2010, 7:47:49 PM
> >> Subject: [PHP] empty() in email message
> >>
> >> I have an email message
> >>
> >> $msg = 'Name: $fname ' . ' $lname\n'
> >> . "Phone: $phone\n"
> >> . "Email: $email\n"
> >>
> >> and it works fine, however in this message there are about 30
> >> variables that
> >> are being called...as such
> >>
> >> . "Order: beefschnitzel $beefschnitzel\n"
> >> . "Order: beefstrips $beefstrips\n"
> >> . "Order: cheesesausage $cheesesausage\n"
> >> . "Order: crumbedsausage $crumbedsausage\n"
> >> . "Order: chucksteak $chucksteak\n"
> >> . "Order: cornedbeef $cornedbeef\n"
> >> . "Order: dicedsteak $dicedsteak\n"
> >> . "Order: filletmignon $filletmignon\n"
> >>
> >> I want to only send the message if the submitter enters an
> >> amount in the
> >> form for the corresponding variable, instead of having a
> >> bunch of empty
> >> messages. So I have been trying to use the empty() function as such:
> >>
> >> . if empty($beefolives){''} elseif (isset($beefolives)) {
> >> 'Order: beefolives
> >> $beefolives\n'}
> >
> > You are setting this up fundamentally wrong.
> >
> > You should be using an array and looping through it.
> >
> > Something like:
> >
> > $myorder['cowface'] = 1;
> > $myorder['beefenweiner'] = 2;
> > $myorder['chucksteak'] = 1;
> >
> > foreach ($myorder as $item => $quantity)
> > {
> > echo "Order: $item x $quantity\n";
> > }
> >
> > Then your array only contains the items someone actually puchased and how
> > many.
> >
> > d
> >
>
> Daevid
>
> I knew someone was going to point out this was a convoluted method, and I
> agree. This was sent to me by someone that needed to make the mail form
> work. My suggestion was to look into a pre-made shopping cart, however
> that
> was not going to work for them, so I made the mail() work for them.
>
> I had thought about putting it into an array, but had not gotten that far
> into it. I will look over the code to see how it works.
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> gary
>
>
>
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