Hey guys, tough question here...

I have a config.php file, that lets you set up the site. However, the config needs a variable to set something each time. Hard to explain, let me show you.

PHP Code:

<form action='edit.php?r=".$row['replyID']."' method='post'>
<input class='imgsubmit' type='image' src='images/edit.png' alt='Edit'>
</form> 


It's a form. When you submit it, I want it to go to the current replyID, taken from a database. Here's the code that sets the $row field.

PHP Code:

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM $DBpostsTable WHERE threadID = '$threadID' ORDER BY replyID");
  while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
    {
       ...
    } 


Ok... A bit tough to understand. Basically $threadID is a number, and it's looking through the database to find all the posts with that threadID on them . Let's pretend $threadID is 1. That means all posts with a threadID of 1 will show up on the thread.

That replyID (the post ID) is what I need in this include file.

Something like this:

PHP Code:

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM $DBpostsTable WHERE threadID = '$threadID' ORDER BY replyID");
  while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
    {
       <form   action='edit.php?r=".$row['replyID']."$replyID'   method='post'>
      <input class='imgsubmit' type='image'   src='images/edit.png' alt='Edit'>
      </form>
    } 


Now the above works! But I want the part with the form to be in the config file so I don't have to keep changing EVERY SINGLE PAGE using that 'algorithm' (I guess) to make 1 little change.

Any help would be appreciated

-PG

You mean;

Just like every forum does with posts?

Every blog, CMS etc etc does with comments?

But I want the part with the form to be in the config file

Put it there then!

or did I miss something??

Yes, sorry

I tried to sort of 'simplify' my problem, by posting only code snippets, not the whole code. I can post the whole code here if you want (well, the part that matters).

Here it is:

config.php

PHP Code:

...
$postOptions = "
<form action='edit.php?r=".$row['replyID']."' method='post'>
<input class='imgsubmit' type='image' src='images/edit.png' alt='Edit'>
</form>";
... 


index.php

PHP Code:

<?php include("config.php");?> 
...Head section...
<?php
  $findCategory = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM $DBcategoryTable");
  $newresult = mysql_fetch_array($findCategory);
  $findCategory2 = mysql_query("SELECT subjectline FROM $DBthreadTable WHERE threadID= '$threadID'");
  $newresult2 = mysql_fetch_array($findCategory2);
  $findSubject = mysql_query("SELECT subjectline FROM $DBthreadTable WHERE threadID= '$threadID'");
  $subject = mysql_fetch_array($findSubject);
  echo "<p class='forbox'><a href='index.php'>Home</a> &rarr; <a href='$curURL?cID=$categoryID'>".$newresult[1]."</a> &rarr; <a href='$curURL?threadID=$newresult2[0]'>$newresult2[0]</a></p>";
  $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM $DBpostsTable WHERE threadID = '$threadID' ORDER BY replyID");
  echo "<table cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='100%'>";
  echo "<h1>$subject[0]</h1>";
  while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
    {
      echo "<tr class='fullpost'><td class='forumauthor' width='5%' valign='top'>";
      $MIO = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM members WHERE username = '".$row['author']."'");
      while($mRow = mysql_fetch_array($MIO))
    {
      echo "<img class='avatar' src='avatars/".$mRow['username'].$mRow['avatar'].".png' alt='' /><br />".$mRow['username']."<br />";
      echo "Posts: ".$mRow['postcount']."<br />";
    }
      echo "</td><td class='forumpost' valign='top'>".$row['replyContent']."<br /><div class='postoptions'>$postOptions</div><hr />";
      $MIO = mysql_query("SELECT sig FROM members WHERE username = '".$row['author']."'");
      while($mRow = mysql_fetch_array($MIO))
    {
      echo $mRow['sig'];
    }
      echo "</td>";
      echo "</tr>";
?>

:|. Hopefully that's enough .

Ok so basically the bold part is what I'm having trouble with:
echo "</td><td class='forumpost' valign='top'>".$row['replyContent']."<br /><div class='postoptions'>$postOptions</div><hr />";

As you can see, it echoes out the content of the reply (this is a forum), and then it's supposed to give a few lines, then have a div called 'postoptions' with $postOptions in it. That all displays fine and dandy. Except when you click the submit button (an image), instead of leading you to a page called edit.php?r=".$row['replyID']." (Would show up as edit.php?r=2 [2 being a random number I made up]). But it just goes to edit.php?r=. That's it. There is no ".$row['replyID'].". Why isn't that carrying over?

I think I understand, you want postoptions to carry the HTML and dynamically drop the replyid in the string.

With you adding the var in the config file, the $row var is not yet defined. Your best solution is to use a formatted string instead.

Example Config:

PHP Code:

$postOptions = "
<form action='edit.php?r=%d' method='post'>
<input class='imgsubmit' type='image' src='images/edit.png' alt='Edit'>
</form>"; 


Example Use:

PHP Code:

echo "</td><td class='forumpost' valign='top'>".$row['replyContent']."<br /><div class='postoptions'>".sprintf($postOptions, $row['replyID'])."</div><hr />"; 


Thanks! It works now