[RESOLVED] print area question.

[Jazzy_Girl]

Hello, I have some input fields in the 'print' section of my php.
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
print "<form action='sendthis etc. etc. ";
}}

The form in the print is sending to php for an email form. Is it possible to include the email form in the above php instead of sending to a separate form? So that the echo fields when the form is sent will show up on the page itself instead of a blank page?

Please let me know how difficult or even possible this is to do. Thank you very much.

[Kudose]

You will need to change the form's action to reflect the name of the page it is being run on, i.e. $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] and will need to do an if/else, checking if the form has been posted or not, to run the mail/form code.

[Jazzy_Girl]

OK after researching this I came up with this but its not working, anyone know why?

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
print "<form action='<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>' method='post'>
<input style='margin-left:0px; margin-top:4px' type='text' name='request' size=15>
<input type='submit' name='submit' value='Submitting' /></form>";
}}
?>

[stolzyboy]

you want a form for each result??

anyway, are you sure you are able to use shorthand PHP, ie. <?= instead of <? echo??

if not, change this: <?=$SERVER['PHP_SELF']?> to this: <? echo $SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>

[Houdini]

print "<form action='<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>' method='post'>";

[Jazzy_Girl]

Ok thanks, I think I am having trouble knowing where to put the next statements the form is calling.

For example. I assume I put them right after the form in the print statement, within the same bracket?

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
print "<form action='<?=echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>' method='post'>
<input style='margin-left:0px; margin-top:4px' type='text' name='anemailadress' size=15>
<input type='submit' name='submit' value='Submitting' /></form>"; //adding the new fields it is sending to here.
$mailto = 'anemailaddress' ;//Email where the form fields will be sent.
mail($mailto, etc. and so on.;}}";
echo 'the php self needs to work';
?>

Please let me know, I think I am putting the properties that send to an email, that the form should post to, in the wrong place. Or I have the double closing quotation marks for the print statement in the wrong place. Thank you.

[Jazzy_Girl]

No matter what I do, I am getting an error message about this line,
print "<form action='<?=echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>' method='post'>

It says. Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING for the php self line.

All my quotes are in single quotes except for the needed double print quotes. But it seems that what it doesn't still like is the way I have the 'PHP_SELF' listed. Anyone know why? Maybe someone that is using php self on their own site?Thank you very much.

[Weedpacket]

mail($mailto, etc. and so on.;}}";

(See how much easier PHP code is to read when it's monospaced and syntax-highlighted?) There shouldn't be a "; on the end of that. And does that second '}' relate to anything?

And ... lose the print statement entirely. The only bit of PHP you have in the entire form is the action, and you're already using PHP to echo that.

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
//adding the new fields it is sending to here.
?>
<form action='<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>' method='post'>
<input style='margin-left:0px; margin-top:4px' type='text' name='anemailadress' size='15'>
<input type='submit' name='submit' value='Submitting' /></form>
<?php
$mailto = 'anemailaddress' ;//Email where the form fields will be sent.
mail($mailto, etc. and so on.;
};
echo 'the php self needs to work';

[Jazzy_Girl]

Thanks a lot, I am only showing the part of the php that is having the problem so to get help with only the part that needs fixed. There is other php prior to it with a query, so why it needs an echo or a print. All the error messages I get no matter what I do, say it doesn' like the PHP SELF line.

[Jazzy_Girl]

echo "<form action='".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."' method='post'>

With the help of someone, I am no longer getting an error message with PHP SELF using the above so you guys were right about the echo.

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<form action='".$SERVER['PHP_SELF']."' method='post'>
<input type='text' name='anemailadress' size=15>
<input type='text' name='newvariable' size=15>
<input type='submit' name='submit' value='Submitting' /></form>"; //adding the new fields it is sending to here.
$mailto = $POST['requesteremail'] ; //Email where the form fields will be sent.
mail($mailto, etc. and so on.;}}";
echo 'the php self needs to work';
?>

But now it doesn't like it when I use a post variable even when its included in the form as well. $mailto = $_POST['requesteremail'] ; Anyone know why???
Thanks a lot. ******~~~~

Turns out I needed the mail to fields before the input fields. Putting what I have into a new post.