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    Php function isnt working!

    Well it kind of does..


    $NewTicketType = $_POST['NEW_FK_TICKET_TYPE_ID'];
    $NewTicketSubType = $_POST['NEW_FK_TICKET_SUB_TYPE_ID'];
    $NewTicketID = LookUpIdById($NewTicketType,$NewTicketSubType);

    echo $NewTicketID;

    Now if I do that it doesnt work but if I put in
    $NewTicketID = LookUpIdById(1,1); it does work...

    I have already verified that $NewTicketType and NewTicketSubType are equal to 1 by echoing them too... Thoughts?
    Last edited by oofki; February 7th, 2008 at 03:56 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oofki
    Thoughts?
    Check if $NewTicketType and $NewTicketSubType actually get assigned what you've POST'ed.

    Edit: oeps.. You've already checked that
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    Yeah its really frustrating im not sure if there is a way to force a variable to be an integer because maybe it is seeing it a string and wont work?

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    What does that function look like (just the basics)?

    You could also force the conversion to integer with $integer = intval($somestring);
    Last edited by SirDice; February 7th, 2008 at 04:34 PM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oofki
    Yeah its really frustrating im not sure if there is a way to force a variable to be an integer because maybe it is seeing it a string and wont work?

    Does your function rely on them being integers? If so, you could use is_int (in an if statement) to verify that you have an integer and if you don't, you could use int to cast it to an integer... I forget what php considers values to be from a post.

    Example int usage:

    $x = "1";
    $y = (int)$x;

    is_int($x) is False
    is_int($y) is True

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    Well the function looks like:

    function LookUpIdById($parent_id,$child_id)
    {
    $where = "where PARENT_ID=$parent_id and CHILD_ID=$child_id ";
    return($this->LookUpOneColumn("ID",$where));
    }

    It works fine if i put in the numbers but not the variables like I said I will try that int function :-)

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    i tried intval() and it still doesnt work!!!

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    $where = "where PARENT_ID=$parent_id and CHILD_ID=$child_id ";
    Because of this it shouldn't really matter if $parent_id is a string or an integer as it all gets converted to strings anyway..

    Weird.. Try echo'ing the values inside the function.. See if that's different..
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    Okay I figured it out. Basically the subtype that I had was already the ID that would be produced by that function and I did not need to even run it :-)

    Thanks for the thoughts SirDice and HtRegz :-D

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    Just wanna add: NEVER TRUST YOUR USER

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    http://www.php.net/strip_tags
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