Problems using PHP with geocities?

cucolin_

Hi guys this is a great forum! I'm trying to use the sendmail script using the free geocities host. Accoriding to geocities I'm allow to use PHP but I keep getting the error saying: "Web page not fount" or something like it. Here is the code maybe I'm doing something wrong:

<form method="post" action="sendmail.php">
Email: <input name="email" type="text" /><br />
Message:<br />
<textarea name="message" rows"15" cols="40">
</textarea><br />
<input type="submit" />
</form>

<?
$email = $REQUEST['email'];
$message = $REQUEST['message'];

mail( "suasua25@hotmail.com", "RG2 problem form",
$message, "From: $email");
header ( "Location: http://www.geocities.com/thankyou.html" );
?>

drew010

is sendmail.php a different file or the one that code is from?

tommynanda

First, check if PHP is working on your host
create
phpinfo.php

<? phpinfo(); ?>

now open this file from browser
http://www.geocities.com/youraccount/phpinfo.php

If PHP is working on your site then, the problem might be

in your code
header ("Location: http://www.geocities.com/thankyou.html");

you are redirecting to thankyou.html of geocities... I guess there should be an account name before that... something like
http://www.geocities.com/youraccount/thankyou.html

Error 2:
If the codes(Mail Form and PHP script) are in same file... you sure will get an error.. coz you cant use header() function after displaying something on browser

Check if one of these are your errors

TommYNandA

cucolin_

Friends, these are 2 separate files. I tried the phpinfo.php and when I go to the browser I get : "This page is not available, we are sorry this page is currently unavailable for viewing". Here is the link:http://geocities.com/suasua.rm/phpinfo.php
What does this means then??

Please help!! Thank you very much!!

drew010

are you sure php is enabled on your account. it looks like you need to have the plan that is 19.95/mo or 39.95/mo to get php. that could be their default page if php is turned off in your account.

cucolin_

That may be the reason since is free! Do you know of any hosting companies that are not that expensive so I could practice my php "skills"!

Thanks for the help!!

drew010

try some links from
http://www.0php.com/free_PHP_hosting.php
http://www.free-webhosts.com/free-php-webhosting.php
http://www.freewebspace.net/

tommynanda

htttp://www.dhost.info is good... its frequently down but good for practice... 100MB and 300GB bandwidth for free

silent

Originally posted by cucolin@
That may be the reason since is free! Do you know of any hosting companies that are not that expensive so I could practice my php "skills"!

Thanks for the help!!

If you want to practice, it's not very hard to install PHP on your
own computer. There's no real need to use hosting if you are just
practicing.

cucolin_

It is true that I can instaill PHP on my PC. But, I need to create a small form so my customers can send me info. about problems with their PCs.
If anyone knows about a good php script for this let me know I would really appreciate it!!

Thanks guys, you really are helpful.