Posted by Jacco Ermers on 02/12/05 15:16

"Marek Kilimajer" <lists@kilimajer.net> wrote in message
news:420DFEA3.1030702@kilimajer.net...
> Jacco Ermers wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I recently installed php5 onto my windows IIS. Previous I had php running
>> on Apache. I coded a page (testing purposes) but now I get errors. the
>> page can be viewed on a remote server (without the errors)
>> http://seabird.jmtech.ca
>>
>> Locally I receive these errors:
>>
>> Undefined index: section in
>> C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Seabird-local\includes\submenu.php on line 3
>>
>> if($_GET['section']=='') etc.
>> It used to be that I could use a section == ''
>> is it new to php5 that I cannot? and I also used to be able to use
>> $_GET[section] and now I have to use $_GET['section']
>>
>> did I overlook anything configuring my php.ini or is this due to my new
>> enviroment?
>>
>> Thank you for helping
>
> This is due to different setting in error reporting, now you have also
> E_NOTICE turned on.
>
> if($_GET['section']=='')
>
> should be coded as:
>
> if(empty($_GET['section']))
>
> If GET variable 'section' is not sent, it is not equal to '', it does not
> even exists, is undefined. Using it triggers error of level E_NOTICE.
>
> If you write
>
> $_GET[section]
>
> php is looking for constant named 'section'. However, it does not exists,
> so an error of level E_NOTICE is triggered. Undefined constant is then
> converted to string with its name. So you get $_GET['section'] in the end.
>
> It's a good practice have full error reporting turned on, since this will
> help you spot errors and write safer code.

Thank you, that did the trick. Now it works without problems.

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