Form POST method problem

webweever

I'm new to PHP so bear with me, I'm still in the crawl stage. 🙂

I'm trying to embed a small flash mp3 player to enable users to play various podcasts on my site.

I have created a file that I thought would work. It loads the mp3 player but errors out. Here is the code for the form:

<html>
<body><form action="test.php" method="post">
Podcast URL: <input type="text" name="podcast" size="25" maxlength="70" />
<input type="submit" /> 
</form>

<embed src="http://www.racinnation.com/mp3/botpod/mp3player.swf?config=http://www.racinnation.com/mp3/botpod/config.xml&amp;file=http://www.racinnation.com/mp3/botpod/getfeed.php?filename='<?php echo $_POST["podcast"]; ?>'" wmode="transparent" name="mp3player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" height="200" width="300">
</body>
</html>

The live file is here: http://www.racinnation.com/mp3/test.php

I don't get any kind of code error, the player just says the playlist is in the wrong format. I think this is telling me my POST method is either not working at all or not working correctly.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

kiwibrit

I'm not quite clear what you are trying to do.

For server-side script, forms, complete with submit button are on one page - the action is on another file.

From what I can see, you are trying to have both your form and result on the same page. If you want to do that, I would have thought something like javascript would be more appropriate (though there would be an accessibility issue). I guess with php you might be able to have the page on which you have your form refreshed to display or play whatever you want - but I would not like to do that, myself. Not just because I am fairly inexperienced in php, but also because, I think, there could be confusion for someone using a screen reader.

bongbong

you can use the same php page for doing both using if and else:

show the player if "submit" is "isset" and get value for $_POST['podcast']

else show the form then call the page again after submit is clicked (as sumbit now becomes "isset").

i am not sure what is causing the wrong format issue though ... not sure what users are supposed to enter in the text field.

webweever

kiwi,

Thanks for the reply. Whether or not the form posts to the same page or a different page makes no difference to me. With 2 pages I can setup the form as follows:

test.php

<html>
<body><form action="form.php" method="post">
Podcast URL: <input type="text" name="podcast" size="25" maxlength="70" />
<input type="submit" /> 
</form>


</body>
</html>

So my mp3 player loads in the form.php page below. The player loading portion is fine, it just can't read the form posting the url entered in the form.:

form.php

<html>
<body>
<embed src="http://www.racinnation.com/mp3/botpod/mp3player.swf?config=http://www.racinnation.com/mp3/botpod/config.xml&amp;file=http://www.racinnation.com/mp3/botpod/getfeed.php?filename=<?php '<?php echo $_POST["podcast"]; ?>' ?>" wmode="transparent" name="mp3player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" height="200" width="300">


</body></html>

I'm just trying to figure out how to post the url from the form inside the embeded mp3 player code.

Any ideas?

bongbong

i think the form is parsing the value of $_POST["podcast"] correctly by doing a check as follows...

<html> 
<body> 
<embed src="http://www.racinnation.com/mp3/botpod/mp3player.swf?config=http://www.racinnation.com/mp3/botpod/config.xml&amp;file=http://www.racinnation.com/mp3/botpod/getfeed.php?filename=<?php echo $_POST["podcast"]; ?>" wmode="transparent" name="mp3player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" height="200" width="300"> 

<?php

echo $_POST["podcast"];

?>

</body>
</html>

webweever

I finally got it to work.

<html>
<body><form action="test.php" method="post">
Podcast URL: <input type="text" name="podcast" size="25" maxlength="70" />
<input type="submit" /> 
</form>
<embed src="http://www.racinnation.com/mp3/botpod/mp3player.swf?config=http://www.racinnation.com/mp3/botpod/config.xml&amp;file=http://www.racinnation.com/mp3/botpod/getfeed.php?filename=<?php echo $_POST["podcast"]; ?>" wmode="transparent" name="mp3player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" height="200" width="300">

</body>
</html>

I removed the '' enclosure for the POST php script putting it in the embeded mp3 player.

Thanks everyone for your assistance.