I'm hoping for some kind assistance for this old brain. I'm trying to change the cliché "You can't teach an old dog new tricks"...
OK, I understand creating of the $okay flag variable as TRUE and then the introduction of the empty() function with if (empty($_POST['email'])) {print '<p class="error"> Please enter your email address.</p>'; $okay = FALSE.
But what I don't understand is if the user does not enter the necessary information and then the $okay value changes to FALSE, what keeps the success message from printing? So the flag variable has changed from TRUE to FALSE,