Undefined variable in header (Shirts 4 Mike)

Hmmm ... I can't quite tell the problem looking at the code on pastebin. Like James says, putting it at PHP playground may help us track it down. I'm unfortunately not familiar with the default settings for WAMP Server; that's what you are using, right? The code samples will work with XAMPP and MAMP's default settings, as well as on most production servers.

Here are a couple of things to try.

(1) In the files that are throwing the errors, add this before the include():

$section = "";
include("inc/header.php");

(2) If that doesn't work -- and only if number one doesn't work -- try adding this after the include().

include("inc/header.php");     
$section = $section;

I have read about people having an issue like this on some server configurations, with variables not getting shared with include files like usual ... though I have never experienced it myself. Let me know if that works for you.

Sorry to comment on an old thread, but I resolved this issue by adding:

$section = "";

to index.php per this suggestion on SO:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14503650/undefined-variables

Resolved the issue auto-magically though I'm not entirely sure why.

Hope this helps someone else, and thanks for the awesome site. /derp,...I just realized "in the files that are throwing the errors" = index.php. Sorry to reiterate, but still hopeful this may help a fellow newbie.

Addition: I see this page when i go into the index, aka click on the site logo to go "home". The actual contact and shirts button becomes underlined, how can the variables be undefined if thats the case? If they were undefined, the underlining shouldnt work, right?

On your very first line of code you posted, you have a space between your variable symbol $ and section.

<li class="shirts <?php if ($section == "shirts"){ echo "on"; } ?>">Shirts< / li> < li class="contact <? php if ($section == "contact"){ echo "on"; } ?>">Contact< / li>

That space is only there because i wanted to make the code show, just like u did, Here is the exact code from my folder. im going crazy here :/

shirts.php: http://pastebin.com/szZmB0zj contact.php: http://pastebin.com/hZAr5TKV

header.php: http://pastebin.com/qsbbfbt6

@Dave - The forum uses markdown to format forum posts. Indent each line of code 4 spaces, or use a grave (aka backtick) symbol like so <tag>.

Instead of using pastebin.com when pasting code to a forum, a better solution is to use a PHP playground which interactively executes the code and it's much easier to quickly try out fixes.

I had the same issue discussed above and (1) solution worked great. Thanks for your help Randy!

I had the same issue here too (I'm using wampserver). (1) solution worked for me too, thanks for posting this issue, and thanks for the help Randy!!