if you read my original post you'd see that I already know this! I even inserted code to fix the problem. The problem is that the values of the variable THE FIRST TIME are undefined as shown by the code I inserted. I fixed the problem for one of the variables to make sure I perceived the problem correctly not being a html guru! The question is again "Is there a better way?" --- On Mon, 12/8/08, Daniel Brown <danbrown@xxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Daniel Brown <danbrown@xxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: there must be better way to handle "Null" undefined variables > To: fredsilsbee@xxxxxxxxx > Cc: php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 6:06 PM > For future reference, Fred, please only include the relevant > code, > not the entire script. > > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Fred Silsbee > <fredsilsbee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [snip!] > > > > Under windows, the first page has an error <br > /><b>Notice</b>: Undefined variable: > ExercisePrice in > <b>C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\new_black_scholes.php</b> > on line <b>198</b><br /> > > This is just a matter of the INI settings > error_reporting and/or > error_display being different. It's not an OS thing at > all. You can > change php.ini on the offending system to this: > > error_reporting = E_ALL | ~E_NOTICE > ; Note that the | is the pipe character. > > Preferably, though, the variable on line 198 should be > defined. > It doesn't absolutely *NEED* to be, but good coding > standards beg that > you do. > > [snip!] > > <input type="text" > size="20" maxlength="40" > name="ExercisePrice" > > value="<?php echo $ExercisePrice; > ?>" /> > [snip!] > > There's your problem. $ExercisePrice is called > (within the <?php > ?> tags), but was never defined before this. > > -- > </Daniel P. Brown> > http://www.parasane.net/ > daniel.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxx || danbrown@xxxxxxx > 50% Off Hosting! http://www.pilotpig.net/specials.php -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php