[RESOLVED] help with php installation

cesar110

Hi,

I installed php,mysql and apache in my local machine. I have 1 big problem. My forms are not getting me the feedback info. I checked and double check php.ini and httpd and I do not know what I am missing. I just get a blank page. Now, if i upload my script to my hosting server it works just fine.

What I did:
Besides installing and reinstalling PHP5 and Apache2 like 3 times. I installed the PECL521 dll files in php.ini. I create the test.wsf and register php5activescript.dll and get the "hello world". Include files work fine, echo, etc. I have this problem with feedback forms and when tying to connect to my sql. I just get a blank page. In my ISP "real webserver" I am able to connect to my testing database or get the error message if I put the wrong username or password. But nothing happens in my local machine. When looking at phpinof(); I have SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] GET , do I need to add POST or something. register_globals = Off, and for what I read is better to keep it like this. Please any help will be highly appreciate

cesar110

I reinstall Apache and PHP5 and it work beautiful for one day. I shut the computer off. Come back next day. Turn it back on and same problem. The feedback information from the forms are not comming up.

Piranha

Ok, let's take this one step at a time. From your description I don't understand what is wrong and what works. Please check each point below and answer to everyone of them.

Add a .html file and check if it works.
Add a .php-file with only html in it and check if it works.
Add a .php-file with only an echo <?php echo "it's working"; ?>
Do a form on one page and then recieve the result and echo it on the second page.
Insert the contents from the form into a database. Check in the database console if it is inserted or not.
Extract the data from the database.

If everything above works then it seems to be good. If not, then give information about where it stopped to work and what you have done to get it to work.

By the way, don't change any setting or install anything else before starting to test. It could be some setting or installing that have messed things up.

cesar110

Steps 1, 2 and 3 work fine. My problem is number 4 and 5. I cannot connect to MySql either. But like you said, lets go step by step first...I put my script in one page below. Same script in my hosting company server works fine, either using one page with Self-server or sending the result and (echo) to a second page. In my local machine I do not get the echo for the results. If I sent the echo output to a 2nd page, I get just a blank page. I go to view source on that page and there is nothing. not even the html tags like HTML,HEAD,BODY and so on. just blank.

Again step 3 works. Plain Echo by itself without comming from a form works fine.
Thanks for you help and time.

<body>
<form name="ratetable" method="POST" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>">
<table>
<tr>
<td align=left class=body width=150>Entry Interchange:</td><td align=left>
<select name="entryRamp" >
<option selected value="0" >From</option>
<option value="Before - San Gabriel River" >Before - San Gabriel River</option>
<option value="TX US-79" >TX US-79</option>
<option value="CR 138" >CR 138</option>
</select></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align=left class=body>Exit Interchange:</td><td align=left>
<select name="exitRamp" >
<option selected value="0" >To</option>
<option value="TX US-29">TX US-29</option>
<option value="CR 104" >CR 104</option>
<option value="CR 107/Chandler Rd" >Chandler Rd</option>
<option value="Pecan Street" >Pecan Street</option>
</select></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align=left class=body>Vehicle Class/Type:</td><td align=left>
<select name="autoclass">
<option selected value="0" >Number of Axles </option>
<option value="2">Class 2 axle vehicle </option>
<option value="3" >Class 3 axle vehicle</option>
<option value="4" >Class 4 axle vehicle</option>
<option value="5" >Class 5 axle vehicle</option>
<option value="6" >Class 6 axle vehicle</option>
</select></td>

</form>
<?php
$EntryInterchange = "Entry Interchange:";
$ExitInterchange = "Exit Interchange:";

$ramp = 0.50;
$plaza = 1.50;
$freeRamp = 0;
$yourRateis = "Your rate is:";

if (($POST[entryRamp] == "0") || ($POST[exitRamp] == "0") || ($_POST[autoclass] == "0"))

	{ 
		echo "You need to select all required fields";
	}

else 
	{
 		if (($_POST[entryRamp] == "Before - San Gabriel River") && ($_POST[exitRamp] == "TX US-29") || ($_POST[exitRamp] == "CR 104") || ($_POST[exitRamp] == "CR 107/Chandler Rd"))

			{
				$rate = (($freeRamp + $ramp) * ($_POST[autoclass] - 1)); 
				include ("include/tableRates.inc.php"); 
			}

		else if (($_POST[entryRamp] == "Before - San Gabriel River") && ($_POST[exitRamp] == "Pecan Street"))
			{
				$rate = ($freeRamp + ($plaza + $ramp) * ($_POST[autoclass] - 1)); 
				include ("include/tableRates.inc.php"); 
			}

		else if (($_POST[entryRamp] == "TX US-79") && ($_POST[exitRamp] == "Pecan Street"))
			{
				$rate = (($ramp + $ramp) * ($_POST[autoclass] - 1)); 
				include ("include/tableRates.inc.php"); 
			}

		 else 
		 	{ 
				echo "On-Ramp/Off-Ramp does not exit in this direction"; 
			}
	}

</body>

Piranha

You try to do lots on that page. Why not only use a form with one field where you can input data. And let the action go to another page where you just echo the result. This is debugging, and when doing this you should do it really step by step. Not go from something that works and add lots of things, then it is to hard to know what is the problem and what works. Test again and post if it works or not, and if it does not work then post the exact code you use. And use [php ] and [/php ] tags when posting code here, leave out the spaces.

cesar110

I got this working.