I-WebDesign

Okay thanks Larry and yes it is the first edition I am using, I bought this quite some time ago and didn't realise just how out of date it was. Guess I'll have to look at updating myself with something newer! Thanks again Patrick

Thanks for the reply Larry. It isn't that I'm struggling to understand the book, the problem appears to be the code which you have written. As you state in your book, if Register Global is turned off or error reporting is set too high then this generates 'undefined variable' errors for the form which is designed in chapter two. I have seen that your code for these same pages written in the download files for later versions of this book is quite different, and therefore presumably does not generate these errors? My problem is, as I cannot change the way PHP is configured on my server, t

Hi, I am a complete novice to PHP and have started to use this book but have been very frustrated by it so far. I am only at the second chapter, attempting to build and validate a simple form yet I cannot successfully see the results owing to constant 'undefined variables' etc. According to the advice in the book these problems are caused by register globals being turned off and/or error reporting set too high, but I cannot do anything about either of these, so my question is... is this book realy of any use to me, and should it not have been written an a way which does not bring about the