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PHP Build a Simple PHP Application Wrapping Up The Project Validating Contact Form Data

Nino Roldan
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Nino Roldan
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Posted by Nino Roldan
Nino Roldan
Courses Plus Student 9,308 Points

placing stripos in a function

in the effort of making the code more "compact" (i.e. putting functions that are going to be accessed by multiple pages into an inc folder), i was thinking of putting the stripos function inside a helper file.

the actual code works if i just paste it on the webpage but when i try to put it on a function named "nrstripos()", i get an error.

this is the actual stripos function - this works.

    foreach ($_POST as $value) {
        if (stripos($value, 'Content-Type:') !== FALSE) {
            echo "There was a problem with the information you entered.";
            exit;
            }
    }

this is the function that i placed on a helper file inside an inc folder - this doesn't work

 function nrstripos($postfrompage)  {
                foreach ($postfrompage as $value) {
                    if (stripos($value, 'Content-Type:') !== FALSE) {
                        echo "There was a problem with the information you entered.";
                        exit;
                        }
                      }
                }

and i call it from the page through this where I pass the $_POST variables into the nrstripos function.

 nrstripos($_POST);

1 Answer

Nino Roldan
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Nino Roldan
Courses Plus Student 9,308 Points
Nino Roldan
Nino Roldan
Courses Plus Student 9,308 Points

Say this in Homer voice : " D'oh!"

I wrote the function on a file that is houses in a different inc folder! Now I have rectified this, placed the function in a file inside the correct inc folder and the function is working now, ready to be accessed from within by all of the pages! Thanks!