Need Help with Capitalization & PHP

[tgallagher26]

Ok so here is my code

$myAd = "Do you own a site about \"$q\"? "; 

I want to use the ucwords function on $q but I cant get it to work.

Can anyone help me please.

[techietim]

$myAd = 'Do you own a site about "' . ucwords($q) . '"? '; 

[tgallagher26]

Yea I ha already tied that.

look at the ad space below banner ad and you can see the results.

http://kywordpro.com/txt/1/10/kansas%20city%20zoo.html

[techietim]

You have to put PHP tags around that.

<?php

?>

[tgallagher26]

I know I already have it PHP like this.

<?php


if(!file_exists('config.php')) header('Location: install.php');

include 'config.php';
include 'inc/database.php';
include 'inc/functions.php';
clearCache($options[$clear]);
remUserAd();
if(isset($_GET['q']) && strlen(trim($_GET['q'])) > 1) {
    $q = urlencode($_GET['q']);
    $flag = true;
    if(!isBlackListed($q)) {
        $blackListed = false;
        $array = array('txt', 'img', 'avi', 'news', 'mp3');
        $a = strtolower($_GET['a']);
        if(!in_array($a, $array)) $a = 'txt';
        include 'inc/search.php';
    }
    else {
        $blackListed = true;
    }
    $q = urldecode($q);
}
$myAd = "<font face=\"verdana\" size=\"2\"><table bgcolor=\"ffff88\" width=\"100%\"><tr>
<td valign=\"top\">
<a href=\"http://kywordpro.com/sponsor/index.php\"><b>Advertise Your Website with KyWordPRO!</a></b><br />
Do you own a site about \"' . ucwords($q) . '\"? Then put your text ad right here in front of 1000's of potential customers with our Targeted Keyword Ads for only $20.00 a year.<br /><span style=\"color: green;\">http://kywordpro.com/sponsor/index.php</span></td></tr></table> </font>";

$txt=($_GET['a'] == 'txt' || !isset($_GET['a'])) ? " checked=\"checked\"" : "";
$img=($_GET['a'] == 'img') ? " checked=\"checked\"" : "";
$avi=($_GET['a'] == 'avi') ? " checked=\"checked\"" : "";
$news=($_GET['a'] == 'news') ? " checked=\"checked\"" : "";
$mp3=($_GET['a'] == 'mp3') ? " checked=\"checked\"" : "";
$footer=file_get_contents('http://kywordpro.com/footer.php');

$mainpage='<div id="header"><br /><br /><br /><br /><div  id="main" style="width: 600px; margin: 100px auto;" valign="center" align="center">
<center><br /><a href="http://kywordpro.com/index.php"><img src="http://kywordpro.com/img/logo.gif" border="0" alt="" style="margin-bottom: 20px;" /></a><br />
<form action="http://kywordpro.com/redirect.php" method="get" class="style1">
<p style="margin-top: 10px;">
Web: <input type="radio"'. $txt .' name="a" value="txt" /> | 
Images: <input type="radio"'. $img .' name="a" value="img" /> | 
Video: <input type="radio"'. $avi .' name="a" value="avi" /> | 
News: <input type="radio"'. $news .' name="a" value="news" /> | 
Music: <input type="radio"'. $mp3 .' name="a" value="mp3" /><br />
</p>        
<input type="text" name="q" size="55" value="'. ucwords($q .'') .'" /><br />
<input type="submit" value="KyWordPRO Search" />
<input type=\'hidden\' name="num" value="10"></form>
'. $footer .'<br /></center></div><br /><br /><table align=center><tr><td id="main">
<font face="verdana" size=1">Background Sponsered by 
<a href="http://links.verotel.com/cgi-bin/showsite.verotel?vercode=19175:9804000000002269">3d-passion.com</a></font></td></tr></table></div>';
?>

[boogyman]

$myAd = "<font face=\"verdana\" size=\"2\"><table bgcolor=\"ffff88\" width=\"100%\"><tr>
<td valign=\"top\">
<a href=\"http://kywordpro.com/sponsor/index.php\"><b>Advertise Your Website with KyWordPRO!</a></b><br />
Do you own a site about \"' . ucwords($q) . '\"? Then put your text ad right here in front of 1000's of potential customers with our Targeted Keyword Ads for only $20.00 a year.<br /><span style=\"color: green;\">http://kywordpro.com/sponsor/index.php</span></td></tr></table> </font>";

$myAd = '<div class="advertisement"><p><a href="http://kywordpro.com/sponsor/index.php">Advertise Your Website with KyWordPRO!</a></p><p>Do you own a site about '. ucwords($q) .'?. Then put your text ad right here in front of 1000's of potential customers with our Targeted Keyword Ads for only $20.00 a year.</p></div>';

then add this to your stylesheet

div.advertisement {
    font-family: Verdana sans-serif;
    width:100%;
    background-color: #ffff88;
}

I would also suggest that you validate your page, since I can see a number of really poor HTML.

See www.w3c.org and www.howtocreate.co.uk for more information

[JasonDFR]

<input type="text" name="q" size="55" value="'. ucwords($q .'') .'" /><br /> 

Make the above look like Tim's example.

[tgallagher26]

Boogyman this is the result

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/content/t/g/a/tgallagher26/html/index.php on line 27

[DeSaaD37]

The problem is that you are not escaping from the php correctly. It should be sort of like this:

<?php
echo "<input type=\"text\" name=\"q\" size=\"55\" value=\"".ucwords($q)."\" />";
?>

[JasonDFR]

It should be like this:

<input type="text" name="q" size="55" value="<?php echo ucwords($q); ?>" />

You should not be putting HTML inside PHP tags. Or as strings in variables. There are exceptions, but I don't see any in your code.

This for example

$myAd = "<font face=\"verdana\" size=\"2\"><table bgcolor=\"ffff88\" width=\"100%\"><tr>
<td valign=\"top\">
<a href=\"http://kywordpro.com/sponsor/index.php\"><b>Advertise Your Website with KyWordPRO!</a></b><br />
Do you own a site about \"' . ucwords($q) . '\"? Then put your text ad right here in front of 1000's of potential customers with our Targeted Keyword Ads for only $20.00 a year.<br /><span style=\"color: green;\">http://kywordpro.com/sponsor/index.php</span></td></tr></table> </font>"; 

is not good.