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copied!<p>I know that you've already accepted an answer, but I went ahead and coded you an example based off of your script. I figure if anything, it will help you in the future. There were many syntactical mistakes throughout your script. If you coded verbatim from your book, I would get rid of the book and look for better sources.</p> <p>I took the liberty to modify a few things. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. </p> <p>This is a working copy of your game with a lot of changes throughout the script. </p> <p>It works. Just save the code as guessing.php and run it in your browser.</p> <pre><code><?php // Set inital variables // // Guesses for form // $guessLeft = 5; // Output message // $message = ''; // Whether to show the form or not // $showForm = true; // Help message to help user decide where to go, // Up or down, and how many guesses // $helpMessage = ''; // Displays a fail message // function displayFail($randNum) { $message = "You ran out of Guesses! My number was {$randNum}."; return $message; } // Displays a success message // function displaySuccess($randNum) { $message = "You guessed it! {$randNum} is correct!"; return $message; } // Displays a help message // function helpMessage($help, $guessLeft) { // Check plural // $plu = ($guessLeft > 1) ? "tries" : "try"; // Format Output message // $message = '<p>'; $message .= $help; $message .= " You have {$guessLeft} {$plu} left to guess correctly"; $message .= '</p>'; return $message; } // Check that submit button has been set // if (isset($_POST["submitButton"]) and isset($_POST["guess"])) { // Collect $_POST information // $randNum = (int) $_POST["randNum"]; $guessLeft = (int) $_POST["guessLeft"]; $guess = (int) $_POST["guess"]; // Check user guess // if ($guess < $randNum) { // Number too low // // Decrease guesses left // $guessLeft -=1; $helpMessage = helpMessage('Too low, try again.', $guessLeft); } elseif ($guess > $randNum) { // Number too high // // Decrease guesses left // $guessLeft -=1; $helpMessage = helpMessage('Too high, try again.', $guessLeft); } else { // Number correct, hide form show message // $showForm = false; $message = displaySuccess($randNum); } // If there are no more guesses left // // Hide page and display fail message // if ($guessLeft == 0) { $showForm = false; $helpMessage = ''; $message = displayFail($randNum); } } ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <title>Guessing Game</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="common.css" /> </head> <body> <?php // Show help message if it is set // // Else display nothing // if (strlen($helpMessage)) { echo $helpMessage; } ?> <?php if ($showForm) { ?> <form action="guessing.php" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="randNum" value="<?php echo (isset($_POST['randNum'])) ? $_POST['randNum'] : rand(1, 100); ?>" /> <input type="hidden" name="guessLeft" value="<?php echo $guessLeft; ?>" /> <label for="guess">What is your guess?</label> <input type="text" name="guess" id="guess" value="" /><br /> <input type="submit" name="submitButton" value="Guess" /> </form> <?php } else { // Output Message // echo $message; } ?> </body> </html> </code></pre>

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