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JV’s Power Tips for PHP (2)

In this article Justin explores day to day programming techniques that can help to make a PHP developers life just that little bit easier.

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By: Justin Vincent

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February 02, 2003

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JV’s Power Tips for PHP (2) - Method 1
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Anyway, back to the main point. We are in the middle of writing a script to test if the user has selected bold, italic etc. Here is the first (most basic) way of doing this:

<?php

 if ( $_POST['bold'] )
 {
 $_POST['chat'] = "{$_POST['chat']} ";
 }

 if ( $_POST['italic'] )
 {
 $_POST['chat'] = "{$_POST['chat']}";
 }

 if ( $_POST['underline'] )
 {
 $_POST['chat'] = "{$_POST["chat']}";
 }

 if ( $_POST['strike'] )
 {
 $_POST['chat'] = "<s>{$_POST['chat']}</s>";
 }

 echo $_POST['chat'];

?>

It's easy to see what is going on here. So I won’t say too much about it. Except that it is worth noting the variable $_POST['chat'] is within {}'s. This means you don’t have to break the "'s with .s!

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