[FX.php List] PHP Notices OK?

[Steve Winter]

Trish,

The first idea won't send back undefined variables, as it's looping through
the $_POST array, so everything in there is defined, otherwise it's not in
there ;-)

As to my second suggestion, I've used that extensively when I'm posting back
large arrays of data which get save to multiple FMP records, which include
checkboxes, since otherwise the array of other data will have say 30 items
in it, while if only 15 checkboxes are checked, then that array will only
have 15 items, and things won't 'line up'...

Cheers
Steve

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of VanBuskirk,
Patricia
Sent: 12 December 2007 17:10
To: FX.php Discussion List
Subject: RE: [FX.php List] PHP Notices OK?

Hey Steve!

I hadn't tried the first idea ... would that not send back an undefined
variable error if the checkbox was unchecked?  The second is a very
interesting idea, which I would never have thought of!

Trish

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[mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Steve Winter
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 12:00 PM
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Subject: RE: [FX.php List] PHP Notices OK?

Hi Trish,

Would doing
  foreach($_POST as $key => $value)
    $ordersQuery->AddDBParam($key, $value);

Not have worked for some reason...??

The other thing that I have done with checkboxes is to set a hidden
field,
with the same name just before the checkbox, with value 'defaultValue',
then
when looping through I can not save those by doing

  foreach($_POST as $key => $value) {
    if($value != 'defaultValue')
      $ordersQuery->AddDBParam($key, $value);
  }

Cheers
Steve

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of VanBuskirk,
Patricia
Sent: 12 December 2007 16:50
To: FX.php Discussion List
Subject: RE: [FX.php List] PHP Notices OK?

I have had a heck of a time with undefined variable errors, especially
when they are in checkboxes or radio buttons.  I had to do a statement
such as:

$checkBoxes =
array('BasicSvc_Features','Instrument','Number_800','Calling_Card','COS'
,'Auth_Code','Voice
Mail','VM_Passcode_Reset','Meet_Me','Cellular_Service','SCV','Video_Conf
erence','Networking','DSL','Cable_Internet','Access_System','Budget_Info
_Change','Information_Change','Wiring', 'Estimate');

foreach($checkBoxes as $checkBox) {
	if(isset($_POST[$checkBox])) {
		$ordersQuery->AddDBParam($checkBox, $_POST[$checkBox]);
		}
	}

Trish

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[mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan
Schwartz
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:40 AM
To: FX.php Discussion List
Subject: RE: [FX.php List] PHP Notices OK?

OK. That's fair.

To be honest, I never knew about these things since I have developed 
on my own server and Notices are turned off....until now. ;-)

One step further...my notices appear to be of the Undefined Variable 
type.  I did see your suggestion from last week, to add in 
if(isset($variable)) rather than "surprise" PHP when an undeclared 
variable appears.  Is another alternative to simply declare the 
variable at the top of he page?  If so, how is that best done?

Thx

Jonathan

At 4:15 PM +0000 12/12/07, Steve Winter wrote:
>Hi Jonathan,
>
>Well I guess that one is rather 'up to the conscience of the individual
>church goer' ;-)
>
>For me, personally, no, it's not acceptable, as it means that something
>isn't 100% correct, which means you can't be 100% sure that when it
runs on
>a client server, or you move it from one server to another, that it
will
>still behave correctly...
>
>My staging server has every level of error reporting possible turned
on, and
>when that gives no messages, notices, errors, or unexpected twitches,
then I
>feel reasonably sure that my code will run at the very least, on
similar
>versions of PHP, if not on all...
>
>My 2p worth...
>
>Cheers
>Steve
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan
Schwartz
>Sent: 12 December 2007 16:05
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>Subject: [FX.php List] PHP Notices OK?
>
>Hi Folks,
>
>Is it acceptable for a solution to produce NOTICES (for undefined
>variables) and then essentially hide them by turning off
>error_reporting NOTICES?
>
>Or at minimum, should the solution run clean without notices?
>
>
>Thx
>--
>Jonathan Schwartz
>Exit 445 Group
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>http://www.exit445.com
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