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."); }
> > > }
> > >
> > > ??
> >
>
>
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