IT Answers » `T_STRING’ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:50:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Is it possible to assign more than one form element to one php variable? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/parse-error-parse-error-expecting-t_string-or-t_variable-or-t_num_string/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/parse-error-parse-error-expecting-t_string-or-t_variable-or-t_num_string/#comments Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:46:12 +0000 PatOswalt I have an HTML form file and a PHP file that are supposed to interact with eachother to save information from the form to a contactlist text file.  I had it working fine and it has been turned it, but started playing with it and now have a question.

Is it possible to assign more than one form element to one php variable?  I want my form to have a specific text field for the area code, the prefix and the line number and then want to combine those three field into one variable.  This is not a requirement for my class, I’m just wanting to see how much I can do with this.  Here is my html code below:

<html>
    <!--Patricia Oswalt - IT250 Unit 4 Assignment-->
    
    <head>
        <title>Telephone Directory Input</title>
    </head>
     
    <body>
        <h1>New Directory Listing</h1>
        <form action="SaveDirectory.php" method="post" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
            <p>Last Name <input type="text" name="LastName" size="30" tabindex="1" />
            First Name <input type="text" name="FirstName" size="20" tabindex="2" /></p>
            <p>Street Address <input type="text" name="StreetAdd" size="50" tabindex="3" /></p>
            <p>City <input type="text" name="City" size="30" tabindex="4" />
            State (Abbr) <input type="text" name="State" size="2" tabindex="5" />
            Zip Code<input type="text" name="ZipCode" size="5" tabindex="6" /></p>
            <p>Area Code (<input type="text" name="AreaCode" size="3" tabindex="7"/>)
            Phone Number <input type="text" name="Prefix" size="3" tabindex="8" />-<input type="text" name="LineNumber" size="4" tabindex="9" /></p>
            <p><input type="submit" value="Save" tabindex="9" /><input type="reset" tabindex="10" /></p>
        </form>
        <p><a href="InputTelephone.html">Add New Listing</a></p>
        <p><a href="contactlist.txt">Retrieve Contact List</a></p>
    </body>

</html>

Here is my PHP code:

<html>
    <!--Patricia Oswalt - IT250 Unit 4 Assignment-->
    
    <head>
        <title>Save Directory</title>
    </head>
     
    <body>

        <?php
        
        //initializing the variables
        $LastName = ($_POST['LastName']);
        $FirstName = ($_POST['FirstName']);
        $StreetAdd = ($_POST['StreetAdd']);
        $City = ($_POST['City']);
        $State = ($_POST['State']);
        $ZipCode = ($_POST['ZipCode']);
        $AreaCode = ($_POST['AreaCode']);
        $PhoneNum = ($_POST['Prefix']['LineNumb']);
            
        //confirming that all variables will contain values
        if (empty($LastName) ||
            empty($FirstName) ||
            empty($StreetAdd) ||
            empty($City) ||
            empty($State) ||
            empty($ZipCode) ||
            empty($AreaCode) ||
            empty($PhoneNum))
            echo "<p>You must completely fill out the form.  Please use your browser's Back button to return to the form.</p>";

        else 
        //creating, writing and saving to the text file.
        $NewContact = 'contactlist.txt';
        $Contact = fopen($NewContact, 'a+');
        $output ="n $LastName n";
        $output .="n $FirstName n";
        $output .="n $StreetAdd n";
        $output .="n $City n";
        $output .="n $State n";
        $output .="n $ZipCode n";
        $output .="n $AreaCode n";
        $output .="n $PhoneNum['Prefix']['LineNumb'] n";//this is where the error in pointing to.
        echo "New Contact Saved Successfully!";
        fwrite($Contact, $output);
        fclose($Contact);

    // Split a string into an index array
        $Contacts = "$LastName;$FirstName;$StreetAdd;$City;$State;$ZipCode;$AreaCode;$PhoneNum";
        $ContactsArray = explode(";", $Contacts);
        echo "<br><strong>Contact List</strong><br><br>";
        for($i=0; $i<count($ContactsArray); $i++) {
             echo "$ContactsArray[$I]<br>";
         }
    // Sort an index array
        sort($ContactsArray);
        echo "<br><strong>Sorted Contact List</strong><br><br>";
        foreach($ContactsArray as $Contacts) {
           echo "$Contacts<br>";
         }
    
        ?>

    </body>

</html>
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