Hollows Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 Ok, what I want to happen is, if if($_POST['select'] == 'choose'){ is submitted, the script to display an error and not proccess anything after with the die(); message displayed to the user, but it's not showing the message, and infact when if($_POST['select'] is submitted as another array (I'm sorry, is that the correct term?) it still kills the whole script. I've check in my db an nothing is updating the tables so I guess die is working to an degree. I've tried it without the die commands an it works as it should so I know the info does get sent without the die Here is my code so far - <?php /************************** database info ****************************/ $host = "***"; $user = "***"; $pass = "***"; $db = "***"; /**************************** define variables ****************************/ $name = $_POST['name']; $message = $_POST['message']; mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) OR die ("Could not connect to the server."); mysql_select_db($db) OR die("Could not connect to the database."); // connect to server or die ?> <?php if(isset($_POST['submit'])) { if($_POST['select'] == 'choose'){ die("please select a shout or request from the drop down");// if no drop down is selected, kill the script and explain why } else if($_POST['select'] == 'shouts'){ // begin shouts $message = htmlspecialchars($message); $message = nl2br($message); $message = mysql_real_escape_string($message); $name = htmlspecialchars($name); $name = mysql_real_escape_string($name); $class = "shout"; // assigns the css class to be used when the results are called { mysql_query("INSERT INTO shoutbox (name, message, class) VALUES ('$name', '$message', $class)"); }} // begin request ?> <link href="css/vip_sheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <div id="shout-container"> <div id="shouts"> <?php $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM shoutbox ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 0,10"); while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { ?> <div class="<?php echo $row['class']; ?>"> <b><?php echo $row['name']; ?></b><br /> <?php echo $row['message']; ?></div> <?php }} ?> </div> </div> thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hollows Posted August 20, 2010 Author Share Posted August 20, 2010 seems it was typo later on in the script - works all good now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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