empty window in netscape 7

snoopy13

hy everyone
I have a problem with a html - php form in netscape..
In a pop up I have a form (login.htm) where a user can log in with email and password - the form gets proceeded in login.php, where the user should be told if his email and password is correct. that site starts with a session() (may this be the problem??) In IE it works just fine..but not so in netscape..there I get an empty site.
as php works on the server, that does not seem to be the problem, I even validated the html code and it seems to be good...
any idea, where I can find the problem??
thanks!

bad76

Hi,
it's too general.

Use you JAVASCRIPT? a common problem with NS is that you have to put "document" before all object.

You try to look at the html of page. Is it a balnk page? or is NS that don't show anything?

And you look at the bottom if any javascript error is done...

see you

P.S: Typing "javascript:" on toolbar give you access at javascript console with error, may be (i use this with ns4.0 ....)

snoopy13

hy
I actually do have little javascript in the site..for an error message, if the database connection doesn't work. there is no such javascript error as you described but I've taken the javascript out and it still doens't work..so the problem must be somewhere else.
looking at the html of the page: in explorer it shows all the echo text and the html form button - in netscape it sais that the page is empty...the only thing visible is the link to the stylesheet...
any idea??

ccgorman

If you view the source in Netscape is the HTML in the source, or is the source page blank. I think this is deffinately an HTML problem, perhaps you have not opened or closed a table or div tag properly. Do you have a URL to look at?

-Chris

snoopy13

hy
there should not be any html errors..there isn't even a table...but I attach the login.php file as a txt file...maybe someone finds the mistake..I'm glad for any help!
thanks!

ccgorman

you should get a blank form on both Netscape and IE.

The problem appears to be regarding the line with the code:

if($abschicken){

within this you have:

if ($error_msg){
some code
}else{
more code

But if $abschicken is not set the page is blank, is the else not to be regarding the $abschicken?

-Chris

snoopy13

the $abschicken is there to test if the form has been sent - the login.htm contains <input type=submit name=abschicken>
all the action in login.php should only take place if a form has been sent (which of course always is the case) there is no else for this. is that a problem?

ccgorman

It looks like the form is the problem

it has no value assigned to it. Perhaps the variable is not being passed in Netscape 7, I don't have it here so I can't test it, but you can try two things.

1) Try this, change your submit to:
<input type="submit" name="abschicken" value="abschicken">

2) OR, try this, add to the form:
<input type="hidden" name="abschicken" value="1">
and change the submit to
<input type=submit name=submit >

Also, what you could do is remove the process.html (which contains the form) and add it to the process.php for the else tag (the one I questioned previously). That way if someone comes to the process.php page without the form, or they make an error in the form they do not have to go back, and they won't be displayed a blank page.

-Chris

snoopy13

thank you!
I've tried both alternatives to send the variable "$abschicken" but it didn't work. putting the two sites together (login.htm and login.php) works!
but how can it be that netscape doesn't submit the variables in a form? it would be much easier to have these two things seperated in two sites (for the rest of the process..)

ccgorman

It will either be a Netscape bug or a tiny minor bit of HTML that you are missing or wrongly input in the form. I would have to look at the HTML that contains the form to find it, or determine if it is a bug. I often have all form and form processing on one page, but you can also use includes to make it easier to manage.

for example:

if ($abschicken=="login") {
include("login.php");
}
elseif ($abschicken=="register") {
include("register.php");
}
else {
include("form.php");
}

snoopy13

thanks a lot!
I finally found the bug....netscape did always take the login.htm out of the cache...so all my new code didn't come up:-)
f5 is the answer!
thanks again