Why this code doesn't run?

Truman · April 29, 2016

Still the same thing...I give up and moving forward.

dsonesuk · April 29, 2016

In Notepad++ under settings->preferences and select new documents what options are selected?

Truman · April 29, 2016

Windows, UTF-8 apply to opened ANSI files.

dsonesuk · April 29, 2016

With no bom?

Truman · April 30, 2016

No BOM. By the way, what is bom?

Edited April 30, 2016 by Truman

Truman · May 1, 2016

I'm working on multidimensiona arrays, I ran this code thru php checker and everything looks fine.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
<title>Larry Ullman's books and chapters.</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Some of Larry Ullman's books</h1>
<?php // Script 7.4 - books.php
$phpvqs = array (1 => 'Getting Started with PHP', 'Variables', 'HTML Forms and PHP', 'Using Numbers');
$phpadv = array (1 => 'Advanced PHP Techniques', 'Developing Web Applications', 'Advanced Databe Concepts', 'Security Techniques');
$phpmysql = array (1 => 'Introduction to PHP', 'Programming with PHP', 'Creating Dynamic Web Sites', 'Introduction to MySQL');
$books = array (
'PHP VQS' => $phpvqs,
'PHP Advanced VQP' => $phpadv,
'PHP and MySQL VQP' => $phpmysql
);
print "<p>The third chapter of my first book is <i>{$books['PHP VQS'][3]}</i>.</p>";
print "<p>The first chapter of my second books is <i>{$books['PHP Advanced VQP'][1]}</i>.</p>";
print "<p>The fourth chapter of my fourt books is <i>{$books['PHP and MySQL VQP'][4]}</i>.</p>";
foreach ($books as $key => $value)
{
print "<p>$key: $value</p>\n";
}
?>
</body>
</html>

But it sends message:

Notice: Array to string conversion in C:\xampp\htdocs\my-site\books.php on line 24

PHP VQS: Array

Notice: Array to string conversion in C:\xampp\htdocs\my-site\books.php on line 24

PHP Advanced VQP: Array

Notice: Array to string conversion in C:\xampp\htdocs\my-site\books.php on line 24

PHP and MySQL VQP: Array

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

line 24 is: print "<p>$key: $value</p>\n";

Edited May 1, 2016 by Truman

Ingolme · May 1, 2016

The issue is this:

foreach ($books as $key => $value)
{
print "<p>$key: $value</p>\n";
}

$value is an array, not a string, so you can't just put it inside a string.

Truman · May 2, 2016

So the author of this book is wrong? That's strange...

p.s. I understand that you are right. It doesn't work.

Edited May 2, 2016 by Truman

dsonesuk · May 2, 2016

You would need another key value to show other values in $phpvqs, $phpadv, $phpmysql

dsonesuk · May 2, 2016

Or run $value as an another foreach to retrieve each value

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
        <title>Larry Ullman's books and chapters.</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>Some of Larry Ullman's books</h1>
        <?php
        // Script 7.4 - books.php
        $phpvqs = array(1 => 'Getting Started with PHP', 'Variables', 'HTML Forms and PHP', 'Using Numbers');
        $phpadv = array(1 => 'Advanced PHP Techniques', 'Developing Web Applications', 'Advanced Databe Concepts', 'Security Techniques');
        $phpmysql = array(1 => 'Introduction to PHP', 'Programming with PHP', 'Creating Dynamic Web Sites', 'Introduction to MySQL');
        $books = array(
            'PHP VQS' => $phpvqs,
            'PHP Advanced VQP' => $phpadv,
            'PHP and MySQL VQP' => $phpmysql
        );
        print "<p>The third chapter of my first book is <i>{$books['PHP VQS'][3]}</i>.</p>";
        print "<p>The first chapter of my second books is <i>{$books['PHP Advanced VQP'][1]}</i>.</p>";
        print "<p>The fourth chapter of my fourt books is <i>{$books['PHP and MySQL VQP'][4]}</i>.</p>";
        foreach ($books as $key => $value) { //key and value(array) for books array
            print "<p>$key:";
            $join = "";

            foreach ($value as $value2) { //value(array) of above read out as individual values
                $join.= " $value2, ";
            }
            $join = rtrim($join, ', ');
            print $join;
            print ".</p>\n";
        }
        ?>
    </body>
</html>

Ingolme · May 2, 2016

So the author of this book is wrong? That's strange...

p.s. I understand that you are right. It doesn't work.

A simple fix would be to join the array elements into a string.

foreach ($books as $key => $value)
{
print "<p>$key: " . implode(', ', $value) . "</p>\n";
}

Truman · May 3, 2016

Thanks, and I learn't a new function.

Truman · May 13, 2016

I'm making now a template and within header.html I placed two date functions but when I run the code I don't see them on the browser. Don't know why, everything is by the book.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title>
</title>
<?php // Print the page title
if (defined('TITLE')) {
print TITLE;
} else {
print 'Raise High the Roof Beam! A J.D. Salinger Fan Club';
}
?>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
 <div id="header">
  <p class="description">A J.D. Salinger Fan Club</p>
  <h1><a href="index.php">Raise High the Roof Beam!</a></h1>
  <ul id="nav">
    <li><a href="books.php">Books</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Stories</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Quotes</a></li>
    <li><a href="login.php">Login</a></li>
    <li><a href="register.php">Register</a></li>
  </ul>	
 </div><!-- header -->
 <div id="sidebar">
  <h2>Favorite Quotes</h2>
   <p class="news">I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.< /br> <em>Catcher in the Rye</em></p>
   <p class="news">I privately say to you, old friend...please accept from me this unpretentious bouqet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))). <em>Raise high the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction</em></p>
   <p><?php
  date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');
  print date('g:i a l F j');
   ?></p>
    </div><!-- sidebar -->
 <div id="content">
 <!-- BEGIN CHANGEALBE CONTENT. -->
 <!-- Script 8.6 - header.html -->

Edited May 13, 2016 by Truman

Ingolme · May 13, 2016

That code looks correct. Perhaps you are not looking at the right page in your browser.

Truman · May 13, 2016

I don't think so, this html executes and I see content.

here is the page:

Edited May 13, 2016 by Truman

dsonesuk · May 13, 2016

Err? have you setup the server to run .html or .htm as .php? or is this a mod_rewrite feature?

Did you do the usual and clear history/cache everything?

Also disable add-on ABP running on localhost.

Ingolme · May 13, 2016

If you wish to use PHP then the file extension needs to be changed to .php. You could also change the server settings to run PHP code in files with the .html extension but I don't think that is necessary.

dsonesuk · May 13, 2016

Err? have you setup the server to run .html or .htm as .php? or is this a mod_rewrite feature?

Did you do the usual and clear history/cache everything?

Also disable add-on ABP running on localhost.

Truman · May 14, 2016

If you wish to use PHP then the file extension needs to be changed to .php

Thank you, I didn't know this...In the book it's not mentioned. Now it works fine.

dsonesuk · May 14, 2016

Hang on! If you have not set it up to run php code on html extension page, how come the php code did not show up on the output i.e the page itself, that does not make sense?

Ingolme · May 14, 2016

The PHP code is within <?php ?> tags, which are interpreted as processing instructions (similar to <?xml ?>). A good browser will not display those on the page.

Truman · May 16, 2016

Can you please take a look at this code, from some reason it doesn't work.

<?php // Script 8.9 - register.php
define ('DEFINE', 'register');
include('templates/header.html');
print '<h2>Registration Form</h2>
  <p>Register so that you can take advantage of certain features like this, that, and the other things</p>';
print '<style type="text/css" media="screen">
  .error { color: red; }
 </style>';
 if ($_SERVER['REQUESTED_METHOD'] == 'POST') {
    $problem = FALSE;
	if (empty($_POST['first_name'])) {
	   $problem = TRUE;
	   print '<p class="error">Please enter your first name!</p>';
	   }
    if (empty($_POST['last_name'])) {
	   $problem = TRUE;
	   print '<p class="error">Please enter your last name!</p>';
	   }
	if (empty($_POST['email'])) {
	   $problem = TRUE;
	   print '<p class="error">Please enter your email address.</p>';
	   }
    if (empty($_POST['password1'])) {
	   $problem = TRUE;
	   print '<p class="error">Please enter a password.</p>';
	}	 
    if ($_POST['password1'] != $_POST['password2'])	 {
	   $problem = TRUE;
	   print '<p class="error">Your password did not match your confirm password.</p>';
	}
	if (!$problem) {
	print '<p>You are now registered.</p>';
	}
	$_POST = array();
} else {
	print '<p class="error">Please try again!</p>';
   }

?>
<form action="register.php" method="post">
<p>First Name: <input type="text" name="first_name" size="20" value="<?php if (isset($_POST['first_name'])) { print 
	htmlspecialchars($_POST['first_name']);  } ?>" /></p> 
<p>Last Name: <input type="text" name="last_name" size="20" value="<?php if (isset($_POST['last_name'])) { print 
	htmlspecialchars($_POST['last_name']); 
 } ?>" /></p>
<p>Email: <input type="text" name="email" size="20" value="<?php if (isset($_POST['email']) { print 
	htmlspecialchars($_POST['email']);} ?> /></p>
<p>Password: <input type="password" name="password1" size="20" value="<?php if (isset($_POST['password1']) { print 
	htmlspecialchars($_POST['password']); } ?> /></p>
<p>Confirm Password: <input type="password" name="password2" size="20" value="<?php if (isset($_POST['password2']))  { print htmlspecialchars ($_POST[password2']); } ?>" /></p>
<p><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Register!"> /></p>
</form>
<?php include('templates/footer.html'); ?>

I receive a note:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{' in C:\xampp\htdocs\my-site\register.php on line 46

line 46 is:

<p>Email: <input type="text" name="email" size="20" value="<?php if (isset($_POST['email']) { print

dsonesuk · May 16, 2016

Look carefully at if condition count open parenthesis compared to closed parenthesis

Truman · May 19, 2016

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>View Your Settings</title>
<style type="text/css">
	body { font-size: x-large;
	       color: #999;
	}
<?php // Script 9.2 - view_settings.php
 if (isset($_COOKIES['font_size'])) {
 print "\t\tfont-size: " . htmlentites($_COOKIES['font_size']) . "; \n 
 } else {
 print "font-size: medium;"; 
 }
 if (isset($_COOKIES['font_color'])) {
 print "color: #" . htmlentities($_COOKIES['font_color']) . ";\n";
 } else {
 print "\t\tcolor: #ooo;";
 }
 ?>
 </style>
 </head>
 <body>
  <p><a href="customize.php">Customize your settings.</a></p>
  <p><a href="reset.php">Reset your settings.</a></p>
 <p>yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda
yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda
yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda
yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda
yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda</p>
</body>
</html>

Can you please tell me why I receive this message>

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'size' (T_STRING) in C:\xampp\htdocs\my-site\view_settings.php on line 15

line 15 is:

 print "font-size: medium;";

justsomeguy · May 19, 2016

Look at the coloration of the code, you're missing a quote.

Why this code doesn't run?

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