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I did exactly from the book. It comes up as " Undefined variable." What's going on here?

I still don't understand *why* I get "undefined variable"; I'm posting two variables from a form; th

Feb 25th, 2008 23:56
dman, Philip Olson, Henrik Hansen, Mac Vee, Jim Vernon, http://www.ttnr.org

Your error level is probably higher than the one the author of the 
book used.  Still, you should always initialize your variables before
use, for example:
  echo $i; // incorrect
  $i = 10;
  echo $i; // correct
The initialization process is simple, defining a value to the variable 
before the use of the variable.  A similar problem exists for:
  if ($submit) {
      echo 'The variable $submit is set';
  } else {
      echo 'The variable $submit is not set';
  }
If $submit is not set, then the else is executed BUT also a PHP error of
level E_NOTICE is generated because $submit is undefined.   So, use a
function/construct for this check, such as isset:
  if (isset($submit)) {
Good little programmers code with error_reporting all the way up
(E_ALL).  The directive is called error_reporting, which is defined in
php.ini  One can also use the error_reporting() function to set it
within scripts, as well as .htaccess or ini_set().
  http://www.php.net/error_reporting