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    <p>im learning php and to keep it simple (i think), this is what im trying to do below.</p> <p>--Work so far:</p> <p>I made a small mini form and what i want to do is that when the person enters their email address, that a few things happen:</p> <ol> <li>display a dummy message with actual first name based on database info gotten from email entered.</li> <li>delete DB row based on email entered.</li> </ol> <p>the process page that comes next has a custom message like " hello NAME HERE, sorry to see you go blah blah"</p> <p>Now i havent written the account deletion part because im getting an error. i don't get syntax or any other errors in DW or Aptana..just when i test. the error that i receive is: Notice: Use of undefined constant mysqli_error - assumed 'mysqli_error' in line 32 which is this line that has</p> <pre><code>$sn_nameQueryStringResults = mysqli_query($connect2db, $sn_nameQueryString) or die( "Sorry but theres a connection to database error" . mysqli_error); </code></pre> <p>this is what i have so far for the form:</p> <pre><code>&lt;form method="post" action="snDelAcc_proc.php"&gt; &lt;table width="500" border="0"&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Enter your email address here:&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="accDel" width="250" &gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;input type="submit" name="submit"&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; </code></pre> <p></p> <p>and this is the process page:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php // - - connect to db. $connect2db = mysqli_connect('127.0.0.1','root','passhere','dbtest'); if(!$connect2db){ die("Sorry but theres a connection to database error" . mysqli_error); } //get emailfrom first page. $emailaddy = $_POST['accDel']; $sn_nameQueryString = " SELECT FROM email_list WHERE email = '$emailaddy'"; $sn_nameQueryStringResults = mysqli_query($connect2db, $sn_nameQueryString) or die( "Sorry but theres a connection to database error" . mysqli_error); //get the name with fetch $actualFnameGet = mysqli_fetch_array($sn_nameQueryStringResults); //$sn_query = " DELETE FROM email_list WHERE email= "; echo $actualFnameGet['firstname']; ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>any ideas as to why im wrong? Im a bit lost, thanks in advance.</p>
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