Undefined variable

majidnakit · April 16th, 2005, 01:48 PM

Hi, I am new to php, why I got this error when I click in the link in the movie1.php, here is the error :
My favorite movie is
Notice: Undefined variable: favmovie in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\moviesite.php on line 9

My movie rating for this movie is: 5

movie1.php :
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Find my Favorite Movie!</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<?php
echo "<a href=moviesite.php?favmovie=Stripes>";
echo "Click here to see information about my favorite movie!";
echo "</a>";
?>
</BODY>
</HTML>

moviesite.php :
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>My Movie Site - <?php echo $favmovie ?></TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<?php
//delete this line: define (âFAVMOVIEâ, âThe Life of Brianâ);
echo "My favorite movie is ";
echo $favmovie;
echo "<br>";
$movierate=5;
echo "My movie rating for this movie is: ";
echo $movierate;
?>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Gotaka4 · April 16th, 2005, 07:11 PM

because a page won't have a clue what $favmovie is unless you DEFINE IT!!!
in your moviesite.php page above all $favmovie variables try entering this like:

$favmovie = $_GET['favmovie'];

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majidnakit · April 16th, 2005, 11:23 PM

thank you, it works now.