if()

I have strayed slightly from my studies and attempted to write my own little upload form script.

I am stuck on, well, a lot of places… But the one thing I am looking for is, if $variable = $_POST[‘variable’]; is empty, I would like another value uploaded to the database in it’s place.

Something like:

[code=php]
require_once(‘php/conn.php’);

if(isset($_POST[‘submit’]))
{
$day = $_POST[‘day’];
$month = $_POST[‘month’];
$year = $_POST[‘year’];
$title = $_POST[‘title’];
$sender = $_POST[‘sender’];
$picture = $_FILES[‘picture’][‘name’];
$output_form = false;

if(empty($day))
{ $day == date(‘j’); }
else { $day = $_POST[‘day’]; }

if(empty($month))
{ $month == date(‘F’); }
else { $month = $_POST[‘month’]; }

if(empty($year))
{ $year == date(‘Y’); }
else { $year = $_POST[‘year’]; }

if(empty($title))
{ $title == “no title”; }
else { $title = $_POST[‘title’]; }

if(empty($sender))
{ $title == “anonymous”; }
else { $title = $_POST[‘sender’]; }

if() {}

$connect = mysqli_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD) or die(‘Problem connecting to Database’) ;
mysqli_select_db($connect, DB_NAME);

$query = “INSERT INTO images VALUES (0, ‘$day’, ‘$month’, ‘$year’, ‘$title’, ‘$sender’, ‘$picture’)” ;
$data = mysqli_query($connect, $query) or die(‘Problem Inserting into Database’);

echo ‘<h3>Image successfull uploaded</h3>’;
echo ‘Click here to insert another <a href=”manual.php”>Manual Upload</a>’;
mysqli_close($connect);
}

[/code]

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