Guestbook problems.

[newheartshadow]

Could someone pleeease tell me why this is not working:

<? if ($_POST["submit"])
  {
    if ($_POST["name"] == "")
      echo "Error: No name given.";
    else if ($_POST["text"] == "")
      echo "Error: No message.";
    else
    {
      if (($file2 = fopen("gb.dat", "a")) === FALSE)
        echo "oops";
      else
      {
	$name = $_POST["name"];
	$name = strip_tags($name);

$mail = $_POST["mail"];
$mail = strip_tags($mail);

$text = $_POST["text"];
$text = strip_tags($text);
    $text = str_replace("\n",$text);

    fwrite($file2, time() . "\n");
    fwrite($file2, $name . "\n");
    fwrite($file2, $mail . "\n");
    fwrite($file2, $text . "\n");

    fclose ($file2);
  }
}
  }

  $file = file("gb.dat");

  $lines = 0;

  if ($file)
    $lines = count($file)-1;

  if ($lines)
    for ($i = $lines ; $i > 0 ; $i-=4)
    {
      $time = $file[ $i - 3 ];
      $name = $file[ $i - 2 ];
      $mail = $file[ $i - 1 ];
      $text = $file[ $i     ];

  echo '

<tr>
  <center><td width="100" align="left" valign="top">
  <font face="Arial" color="#000000" size="1">

  '. date("H:i",$time) .'
  <br>
  '. date("Y-m-d",$time) .'
  <br>

  <a href="mailto:'. $mail.' 

  " style=".style1">
  <font color="#000000">
  '.$name.'
  </font></a></font></td>
  <td width="150" valign="top"><font size="1" color="#000000">
  '.$text.'
  </font></td></center>
</tr>

<tr>
 	<td width="350" height="10" valign="top" colspan="2">     
    <hr color="#000000" align="left" size="1">
    <br>     
  </td>

';
}
?>

I get a Notice Undefined Index: submit
when i load the script, and it doesnt add any information to the dat file

[devinemke]

PHP is telling you that "submit" is not an index in the $_POST array. this code obviously suggests that it is used as a form handler. use [man]isset[/man] to make sure the form has been submitted.