How about like this: $required = array("field1","field2","field3");
for ($i=0;$i<count($required);$i++) { $temp = $required[$i]; if (trim($$temp) == "") { echo "You Missed One"; continue; (break?) } } Something like that, I havn't acually tried it. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 2:21 PM Subject: Re: Re: [PHP] How do I convert from perl to php? > So I would have to write a seperate if condition for each form input field i wanted to require? that doesn't make for a very dynamic script... > > > if(!(isset($name) && isset($address) && isset($phone)) { > > echo "You left one empty."; > > } > > > > On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I am a perl user trying to convert to php > > > > > > how would i turn this perl into php? > > > > > > use CGI; > > > > > > $name = param(name); > > > $address = param(address); > > > $phone = param(phone); > > > > > > @required = qw( name address phone ); > > > > > > foreach $key($required) > > > { > > > if (!$$key) { &out("You left one empty."); } > > > } > > > > > > ?? > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]