On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Jim Giner <jim.giner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On 3/12/2013 9:04 PM, Angela Barone wrote: > >> On Mar 12, 2013, at 5:16 PM, David Robley wrote: >> >>> Presumably there is a fixed list of State - those are US states? - >>> >> >> so why not provide a drop down list of the possible choices? >>> >> >> There is, but the problem must have been that if someone didn't >> select a State, $state was blank. I've since given the "Select a State..." >> choice a value of 'XX' and I'm now looking for that in the if statement I >> mentioned before. >> >> Angela >> >> Why not just check if the $state exists as a key of the array $states > before doing this? Exactly, that's much better. It could be that some hacker enters something other than XX or one of the states..