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Novice needs help.. Undefined Variables...

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Wullie

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Hi all,

I am a total novice when it comes to PHP so please excuse me if this is simple..

I keep on getting undefined variable messages but the script still works..

I have the following form to send an sms to me through an email address. The sms is sent


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC &quot;-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN&quot;>
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Send me an SMS message.</TITLE>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content=&quot;text/html; charset=iso-8859-1&quot;>
<STYLE type=text/css>.button {
FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-LEFT-COLOR: #306898; BORDER-BOTTOM-COLOR: #306898; WIDTH: 60px; COLOR: #336699; BORDER-TOP-STYLE: solid; BORDER-TOP-COLOR: #336699; FONT-FAMILY: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, san-serif; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: solid; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: solid; HEIGHT: 20px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; BORDER-RIGHT-COLOR: #306898; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: solid
}
.forms {
BORDER-RIGHT: #3868a0 1px ridge; BORDER-TOP: #336699 1px ridge; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-LEFT: #3868a0 1px ridge; COLOR: #336699; BORDER-BOTTOM: #3868a0 1px ridge; FONT-FAMILY: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, san-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff
}
</STYLE>

<SCRIPT language=JavaScript><!--
if ((navigator.appVersion.indexOf(&quot;Mac&quot;) != -1) && (navigator.appVersion.indexOf(&quot;MSIE&quot;) == -1)) {document.write(&quot;<link rel=stylesheet href=\&quot;/css/test.css\&quot; type=\&quot;text/css\&quot;>&quot;); }else {document.write(&quot;<link rel=stylesheet href=\&quot;/css/test.css\&quot; type=\&quot;text/css\&quot;>&quot;); }function goB(){h=window.name.split(&quot;_&quot;);h[0]=parseInt(h[0])-1;window.name=h.join(&quot;_&quot;);history.back();}function goF(){h=window.name.split(&quot;_&quot;);h[0]=parseInt(h[0])+1;window.name=h.join(&quot;_&quot;);history.forward();}function goL(s){h=window.name.split(&quot;_&quot;);if(parseInt(h[0])<parseInt(h[1])){h[1]=h[0];}h[0]=parseInt(h[0])+1;h[1]=parseInt(h[1])+1;window.name=h.join(&quot;_&quot;);location.href=&quot;/u/&quot;+s;}function initcharsleft() {charsleft(document.forms[&quot;frm&quot;].text);}function charsleft(feld) {var anz = feld.value.length;if (anz> 87 ) {feld.value = feld.value.substring(0,160);frei = 0;} else {frei = 87 -anz;}document.forms[&quot;frm&quot;].num.value = frei;}//-->// -->
</SCRIPT>

<META content=&quot;MSHTML 5.50.4522.1800&quot; name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY text=#000000 bgColor=#ffffff>
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=445 border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD width=88 height=210 valign=&quot;top&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;><font color=&quot;#336699&quot;><b><br>
<br>
<font face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;>Name:<br>
Message:</font> </b></font></TD>
<TD width=11></TD>
<TD vAlign=top width=285> 
<FORM name=frm onsubmit=&quot;return goL('')&quot; action=sendsms.php
method=post>
<INPUT type=hidden value=Sms name=page>
<INPUT type=hidden
value=send_sms name=action>
<INPUT type=hidden value=Robouk name=nickname>
<INPUT class=forms name=email>
<BR>
<TEXTAREA class=forms onkeypress=charsleft(this); onkeydown=charsleft(this); onblur=charsleft(this); onkeyup=charsleft(this); onfocus=charsleft(this); name=msg rows=3 wrap=VIRTUAL onchange=charsleft(this);></TEXTAREA>
<BR>
<font color=&quot;#336699&quot; size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot;>Characters
Left </font>
<INPUT

onfocus=this.blur size=4 value=87 name=num class=&quot;forms&quot;>
<br>
      
<INPUT class=button type=submit value=&quot;Send &quot; border=0 name=submit height=&quot;5&quot; width=&quot;10&quot;>
</FORM>
</TD>
<TD width=61></TD>
</TR>
</TBODY>
</TABLE>
</BODY></HTML>

********IN THE SENDSMS.PHP I HAVE THE FOLLOWING***********

<?php
if($message == &quot;2&quot;){
echo &quot;Sorry!, you have already submitted the maximum times allowed&quot;;

}else{

$num = $sentmessage + 1;
setcookie(&quot;sentmessage&quot;,&quot;$num&quot;,time()+86400); //set the cookie

$to = &quot;me@email.com&quot;;
$subject = &quot;$email , $msg&quot;;

$mailheaders = &quot;From: $email \n&quot;;
$mailheaders .= &quot;Reply-To: $email\n\n&quot;;

mail($to, $subject, $msg, $mailheaders);

?>
<html><head><title>I have recieved your message</title></head><body>

Thank you, i have recieved your message.<br><br>
I will contact you as soon as I can.
</body>
</html>
<?

}//end submitted


?>

Any ideas how to fix this?

Thanks in advance.. Wullie

 
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Hi,

Make sure you have defined all of your variables before you use them. i.e don't do a comparison (if $var == 'var') unless $var has been previously defined - even if it's predefined to a blank string!!

Hope this helps {Greenser}
 
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Looks like $sentmessage has not been set prior to $num=($sentmessage +1); ***************************************
Party on, dudes!
[cannon]
 
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