Can't execute form action files !

safety007

PHP installed: version 5.0.5

My example:

index.html:
<form action=service.php method=POST>
<INPUT TYPE=Submit VALUE="Send">
</form>

service.php:
<HTML>
<BODY>
HTML Code was executed
<BR />
<? echo "PHP Code was executed" ?>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Have this problem:
When I run only the service.php, both html/php code is working.

But when I start with index.html in which the code is calling service.php after submit button click, whole the code in service.php is ignored and only blank page will appear.
Then how can I get inputs from users into my php code?

Maybe I've installed PHP (5.0.5) badly? But where can I make a mistake, however the installation is trivial, isn't it?

Thanks...

batman

service.php needs to be more like:

<HTML>
<BODY>
<?
if(isset($_POST['Send']))
{
 echo "PHP Code was executed";
}
else
{
echo "HTML Code was executed";
}
 ?>
</BODY>
</HTML>

safety007

Nothing has changed.
The whole service.php is ignored and only blank page will appear, but with a valid path in address box (c:.....\service.php).
p.s. I am using PHP designer 2005

Weedpacket

You say "the page is blank", but surely it has HTML tags in it? What does the HTML source look like when you view it? It may just be that you haven't configured the server to run PHP on PH scripts.

safety007

Yes Weedpacket, you're right. The HTML source looks like service.php contents.
I'm sure, that the problem is stupid:
when I run service.php in PHP Designer 2005, that uses php-cgi.exe to compile it, both HTML and PHP codes are executed, but when opening service.php in Iexplorer, it can't recognize PHP code and only HTML code is executed.
That means PHP isn't installed properly, that's I know.
But what I don't know is, how to install PHP to run .php files in Iexplorer.
Plz advice as possible, note that I am a newbe at PHP, thanks

batman

quick thing to try....make a page called php.php and make it look like this:

<?
phpinfo();
?>

and then use IE to view that page and see if it says anything..

Weedpacket

safety007 wrote:
when I run service.php in PHP Designer 2005, that uses php-cgi.exe to compile it, both HTML and PHP codes are executed, but when opening service.php in Iexplorer, it can't recognize PHP code and only HTML code is executed.

How are you "opening service.php in Iexplorer"? Are you doing it via a web server that will process the PHP before sending your browser the results? Or are you just opening it as a local file?

safety007

So, finally I've found out what was going on.
Note: if you don't know what to do, try to read help or manual!
I have Apache web server 2.0.x installed, but it wasn't configured to work PHP with.

Maybe following lines will be helpful for other newbies:

FIRST install Apache 2.0.x, then PHP 5 (recommended to put PHP 5 into c:\php\ directory as default) then BACKUP all the files in Apache2\conf !

There are 2 ways to configure Apache to work with PHP (must use "/" instead of "\"):

as a CGI binary (but server is open to several possible attacks) it's needed to add these lines to Apache2\conf\httpd.conf:

ScriptAlias /php/ "c:/php/"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
Action application/x-httpd-php "/php/php-cgi.exe"

as an Apache module
(must download php zip pack from www.php.net where php5apache2.dll is and put it into c:\php)

LoadModule php5_module "c:/php/php5apache2.dll"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
PHPIniDir "C:/windows/php"

After that stop the apache web server, save the httpd.conf file, start and stop again the web server, overwrite all files in \conf directory EXCEPT FOR httpd.conf !
Finally start Apache web server. It must work!

harmor

also change this
<form action=service.php method=POST>

to
<form action="service.php" method="POST">

(notice the quotation marks)

batman

the quotes wouldn't matter in an HTML page....😃

harmor

I know but it just bothers me a little becuase I'm used to using quotes

Try this

<form action=service.php method=POST>
<INPUT TYPE=Submit name="send" VALUE="Send">
</form>

Notice the name attribute

Then in service.php put the following (I'm using batman's code)

 <HTML>
<BODY>
<?
if(isset($_POST['send']))
{
 echo "PHP Code was executed";
}
else
{
echo "HTML Code was executed";
}
 ?>
</BODY>
</HTML>