The simplest script does not work for me!

scuzzo84

but works for others! Tried on php 4.3.10 and 5.1.2

All I keep getting is "enter a name" when i enter text and hit submit, but for other people who tested the code it works for some reason....

<html>
<body>
<FORM action="test.php" method="POST">
Enter name:<input type="text" name="name">
<input type="submit" name="submit">
</FORM>

<?php
if ($_POST['submit']){
echo $_POST['name'];
}else{
echo "enter a name";
}
?>

</body>
</html>

Houdini

Take this part of the code you have and name it test.php;

<?php
if ($_POST['submit']){
echo $_POST['name'];
}else{
echo "enter a name";
}
?>

Then run the other part (Give it a name like oh test.html put them in the same directory and run it and it will work.

scuzzo84

update:I tried the same non-working code and now it worked...I have no idea why it was doing that...if I had to guess maybe bandwidth was messing it up? My home box and box at work were both under heavy net usage...durno

It did work the way you told me to do it.

But how come it doesnt work where it displays the results on the same page? I have done it before but for some odd reason it doesnt want to work today....

Houdini

Well I am not sure what you are trying to do with that script, but what it will do is Echo the text box and then under the submit it will echo the enter a name because it is seeing the else statement, and so it echos the text, if you leave it on the same page like it is it will do that, and then will replace whatever you enter into the text box because the submit is now true. If that is what you want then it works fine, other wise I figured to seperate the two files and just echo the text entered into the text box in the second file.