Chapter 11 Question 'quote'

[busacco]

Hello

I wrote out  script 11.1 in chapter 11 and the form seems to be working with one exception.

I can't get an error to show up when no quote is submitted.

here is the code with the conditions:

 

 if (!empty($_POST['quote']) && ($_POST['quote'] != 'Enter your quotation here.') ) {

 

 

}else{ //failed to enter a quotation

            print '<p style="color:red;"> Please enter a quotation!</p>';

            }

 

This is not working, I get no error message for submitting nothing, in fact, the 'Enter your quotation here' is recorded in the quotes.txt.

 

 

BTW , The condition below is working, I tested the other else statement:

 

 

 

else {//could not open file

                print '<p style="color: red;">Your quotation could not be stored due to a system error.</p>';

            

            }

when I moved the quotes.txt file to another directory, I did get the above error message.

 

Did I miss something?

Thanks

FYI I really love this book and can't wait to get to your OOP book.

 

[Larry]

Thank you so much for the nice words! I really appreciate it. As for this issue, I'd start by doing 

print_r($_POST) 

to see what values exist. If you have an extra space or different character in the preset value of "quote", that conditional will be true.