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[Phillip Powell]

No, you can use single quotes.  You can't use single quotes, however, if 
you want your resulting HTML to result to the rather narcissistic W3C 
standards, which, IMHO, mean 0.00% of anything.

Phil

Derek DeVries wrote:

>Only double quotes are compatible with the newest standard of XHTML.
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>Derek DeVries
>http://www.sportspyder.com
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "leam" <leam at reuel.net>
>To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
>Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 9:36 AM
>Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Can't get no $action
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>>Dan Cech wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>leam wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>> From the editor_form function:
>>>>
>>>>    echo "<form name=edit_form method=post action=$PHP_SELF >";
>>>>    echo "<input type=hidden name=action value=save_file >";
>>>>    echo "<input type=submit value='Save and Exit' name=submit>";
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>It won't be causing the problem, but your html should be properly
>>>      
>>>
>quoted.
>  
>
>>Do you mean like:
>>echo "<input type=\"hidden\">";
>>
>>or can I use single quotes? Yeah, I'm still on the square part of the
>>learnin' curve...
>>
>>    
>>
>>>> From the switch statement:
>>>>
>>>>    switch($action) {
>>>>        case "save_file":
>>>>            save_file();               break;
>>>>        default:
>>>>            html_header();               editor_form();
>>>>            html_footer();
>>>>    }
>>>>
>>>>The save_file function works if it's called by itself, and the $action
>>>>just seems to call the default.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>I would suggest that your server might have register_globals turned off,
>>>meaning you will need to use $_POST['action'] instead of $action.  You
>>>should do this anyway, rather than relying on register_globals.
>>>
>>>Dan
>>>      
>>>
>>Virtual Drink to you, that was it! Went to switch($_POST[action]) and it
>>worked.
>>
>>The book recommends register_globals be on but I've understood that is
>>not the best solution. However, I still get mixed up in their code
>>becasue they're using it that way.
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>leam
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