Comments on: Core PHP Programming 2/E Errata http://www.leonatkinson.com There is no duty that is not accepted. Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:14:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Pablo Manalastas http://www.leonatkinson.com/writing/core-php-programming/core-php-programming-2e-errata/comment-page-1/#comment-27133 Pablo Manalastas Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:21:47 +0000 http://home.leonatkinson.com/wordpress/index.php/core-php-programming-2e-errata/#comment-27133 In the section on "Receiving User Input", pages 18-21, you need to change the last sentence on page 19 as follows: "When the user presses the submit button, the script named in the ACTION attribute will receive the three form fields and PHP will convert them into variables, accessible by the associative arrays $_POST[ ] and $_GET[ ], depending on whether the FORM METHOD is post or get." On page 20, the script "1-5.php" should contain the three accesses to the form variables are follows: $YourName = $_POST["YourName"]; $CostOfLunch = $_POST["CostOfLunch"]; $DaysBuyingLunch] = $_POST["DaysBuyingLunch"]; You need to do this before you can even use these variables in the rest of the script. In the section on “Receiving User Input”, pages 18-21, you need to change the last sentence on page 19 as follows: “When the user presses the submit button, the script named in the ACTION attribute will receive the three form fields and PHP will convert them into variables, accessible by the associative arrays $_POST[ ] and $_GET[ ], depending on whether the FORM METHOD is post or get.”

On page 20, the script “1-5.php” should contain the three accesses to the form variables are follows:

$YourName = $_POST["YourName"];
$CostOfLunch = $_POST["CostOfLunch"];
$DaysBuyingLunch] = $_POST["DaysBuyingLunch"];

You need to do this before you can even use these variables in the rest of the script.

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