Minuk, your revisions gives me an error: *Parse error*: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in * /hsphere/local/home/bruceg/inspired-evolution.com/Contact_Form_test.php<http://evolution.com/Contact_Form_test.php> * on line *63* -Bruce On 10/17/05, Minuk Choi <Choi.Minuk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Wait a minute... you meant > > <input class=" > <?PHP > if ($error_msg) > { > echo "input.error"; > } > else > { > echo "input.normal"; > } > ?>" id="firstname" name="firstname" type="text" value="<?PHP echo > $_POST['firstname'];?>"> > > > ...or am I looking at the wrong thing? > > Bruce Gilbert wrote: > > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >From: "Richard Lynch" <ceo@xxxxxxxxx> > >To: "Mark Rees" <mrees@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:12:50 -0500 (CDT) > >Subject: Re: Re: a couple of problems with PHP form > >On Mon, October 17, 2005 5:32 am, Mark Rees wrote: > > > > > >>----------------------------------------------------- > >>sorry, my editor has not indented again > >>----------------------------------------------------- > >>also, I want the field to appear hilighted when there is no > >>information so I am doing this: > >> > >><input class="<? if($error_msg){ echo "error"; } ELSE { echo > >>"normal"; } id="firstname" name="firstname" type="text" > >>value="{$_POST['firstname']}"? />" > >> > >> > >I think the quote mark balancing is messed up here... > > > > > >><input class=" > >>this starts a quote for the class= > >>There appears to be no ending quote for that... > >> > >> > >I>t may simply have been lost in email editing, however... > > > > > >adding the input.error didn't solve the problem dang it.! If there is > >a ending quote missing, I don't see it right off hand. > > > >I know have: > > > > > ><input class="<? if($error_msg){ echo "input.error"; } ELSE { echo > >"input.normal"; } id="firstname" name="firstname" type="text" > >value="{$_POST['firstname']}"? />" > > > >in the css: > > > >input.error { > > border: 2px inset red; > > margin:0; > > font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; > > color: #036; > > width: 15em; > > padding-left: .25em; > > font-weight: bold; > > background: #eee; > >} > > > > > > > -- ::Bruce::
