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PHP

Doug Hantke
Doug Hantke
10,018 Points
Posted by Doug Hantke
Doug Hantke
10,018 Points

I'm getting a '0' for my body input and I'm not sure why.

<?php
$sid = "xxxxxx";
$token = "xxxxxxxxxxxx";
$client = new Client($sid, $token);
    $first_name = $_POST['first_name'];
    $phone_number = $_POST['phone_number'];
$client->messages->create(
    '+' + $phone_number ,
    array(
        'from' => '+1xxxxxxxxxx',
        'body' => 'Thank you, ' + $first_name + ' for choosing xxxxx. Please take a moment and leave us a review! http://www.google.com')
);

That is the php form that is currently running. I am sending a text message using Twilio and I am getting the text just fine. I'm assuming the problem is how I'm dealing with the 'body' part of the text message. If I remove the first name variable it works just fine. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong though.

The HTML part is very simple at the moment as I'm just trying to get this to work:

<form action= "make_text.php" method= "post" name= "customer_info">
    <label for= "first_name">Customer's First Name:</label><br>
    <input type= "text" name= "first_name" id= "first_name"><br>

    <label for= "last_name">Customer's Last Name:</label><br>
    <input type= "text" name= "last_name" id= "last_name"><br>

    <label for= "phone_number">Customer's Phone Number:</label><br>
    <input type= "text" name= "phone_number" id= "phone_number"><br><br>

    <input type= "submit" value= "Submit"><a href="/sms/make_text.php"></a>
Lewis Combey
Lewis Combey
2,533 Points
Lewis Combey
Lewis Combey
2,533 Points

have you tried just writing it as a string? - "Thank you, $first_name for choosing xxxxx. Please take a moment and leave us a review! http://www.google.com";

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

In PHP you have to use . (dot) to concatenate text. The plus operator is used exclusively for adding numbers together. Using it on text therefore causes PHP to try to convert the text to a number, and if there are no numbers to be found it just produces 0.

So change your body to this:

'Thank you, ' . $first_name . ' for choosing xxxxx. Please take a moment and leave us a review! \n http://www.google.com')
Doug Hantke
Doug Hantke
10,018 Points
Doug Hantke
Doug Hantke
10,018 Points

I have obviously never used PHP lol... I didn't even consider that the format to concatenate would be different.