problem processing form locally

Lou_Boumian

Hi all!

On my remote host server, I can run successfully this:

which is nested inside a $HTML=<<<HTML section

But I have PHP5 running on Appache 2 on my Windows2000 local machine and the form does not get processed with that code (although the php file displays correctly the blank form). Pressing submit just return the blank form. No processing occurs.

So, I have tried using:

with varying the combination of " and ', to no avail.

I get the following error message:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING

The test file :

<?php

$t = 10;

echo $t, '---', $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"];

works however perfectly locally.

but in this case, the code is not nested inside a $HTML=<<<HTML section

Any idea what to try?

Thanks!

mhalloran

Does this work?

Lou_Boumian

just tried your alternative.
It does not generate any parsing error but the form does not get processed. it just come back as if reset...

Running out of ideas... I have tried many combination of double and single quotes too...

mhalloran

Have you viewed the source of the page to see if the value was put in?

If so, it's another problem.

Lou_Boumian

Sorry, I do not understand what you mean.

The php page either returns the blank form, as if it has been reset, or produce a parsing errror on the action= line.
Which value and which page do you suggest I check?

yousaf931

There is phrase err in your code correct this.


<?php 

$t = 10; 

echo $t .  '---' . $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]; 

?>

Cheers,
yousaf FAYYAZ.

mhalloran

Well, by view source I mean opening the page in explorer and then going to the edit menu and selecting "view source." This will show you what php has send to the browser.

Assuming the code is working, the form tag should have the URL of the same page...
<form action="this_URL.php">

After you submit the form you say that it returns a blank form but this should be expected because you are sending the browser to the same location, hence the variable PHP_SELF.

In most cases you should send the form to a page that process the information so I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to do here. Perhaps if you pasted the entire code and let us know exactly what you are trying to do we can offer more help.

Lou_Boumian

I found the problem:

I was using $bFirstPassage instead of $_POST['bFirstPassage'] to test whether or not the file had been read once. Since I am using PHP5, $bFirstPassage was never recognized as the variable posted further done in the script and the test was therefore always returning FALSE, hence reshowing the blank form again and again.

I had to replace all my $PostedVariable by $_POST['PostedVariable'] to make my script work on my local machine.
I guess I could have also turn REGISTER_GLOBALS on in my config file and avoid changing my script but I read this is bad practice.

Eventually, I also had to use:
<form action={$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']} method="post">
to avoid parsing error within my heredoc.

Thanks for helping!
Cheers!