pourinitup

ok i put a textbox on my site and im trying to get the value from it when it can log when a user uploads

my html code for the textbox looks like this <input type="text" name="name" id="name" />

and the php for what i added looks like this
$Name = $_GET['name']; i used get because when i used POST it would bypass the null testing and just upload null or not
but then i added this to test null

if ($Name === NULL)
{
print ("$Name");
die ("You need to enter your name if you want credit for the upload.");
}

this made it so even if there was a name in the textbox it didnt read it
im completely stumped btw if you havent noticed im completely new to php

grimpirate

You were fine using $_POST. However, what you need to keep in mind is that when the value is submitted. An empty string is still a string. If you want to test for an empty string that was passed using $_POST then you could do something like:

if(strlen(trim($_POST['name'])) == 0)

In that case it says if the string is of length 0 then it's no good. The trim function removes all whitespace characters from the left and right side of a string.

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pourinitup

ill give that a try

pourinitup

it worked
thanks

pourinitup

hm now it wont actually upload and i didnt touch any of that code so im completely stumped...it says it was successfully uploaded but when i check my ftp nothing is there
any ideas?

Infinite Recursion

You may want to show us the upload code. We cannot help you debug if we cannot see it.

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pourinitup

well....for some reason it just started working outta nowhere but thanks for all the help guys