On 10/23/07, Dan Shirah <mrsquash2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Correct, which is why in my original post I set two variables.
>
> $comments = strtoupper($_POST['comments']); //This is the value I want
> saved
> in my database.
> $check_comments = $_POST['comments']; //This is the value I am using to
> determine if there were any comments entered.
there is no reason to have 2 variables. just have one variable and
initialize it.
$comment = '';
if(!empty($_POST['comment])) {
$comment = strtoupper(trim($_POST['comment']));
}
later you can check $comment using empty($comment)
where is the code w/ the statement about the database ?
-nathan
