Problem with forms

sumitkiki

Hello Everone,

I am newbie in PHP and learning php forms.I have made a simple php form.

User enters his name in textbox click on submit button and his name is displayed through PHP.But this is not happenning,instead of displaying the name,it opens up a dreamweaver window.

I am using Easy PHP for PHP practice and stored the html and php form in C:/PHP/www folder.

Kindly help as I am not able to resolve it.

This is the form code
<html>

<body>

</body>

</html>

and this is the php code.
<?php
echo $_POST['Na'];
?>

Please help
Regards
sumitkiki

sneakyimp

What is happening is that when you click submit on the form where it lives on your local hard drive is that your machine is using dreamweaver to open the file, right? This sort of thing is likely to happen if you are accessing the file directly off disk rather than through a web server.

The way PHP usually works is that you request a PHP page with your browser FROM A WEB SERVER. The web server retrieves the file and PARSES it, turning the php code into byte code. This can be done because the properly configured web server has PHP installed as a module and knows that it must perform this additional processing step. The output of this processing step is then routed to your browser over the network.

In the case I think you are describing, there is no webserver in the mix...it's just your browser talking to your hard drive.

You either need to upload the files to a php-enabled server to test them or you need to install apache with php on your machine and request the file from the apache daemon running on your machine which is typically done like this:

http://localhost/file.php

Scriptmaker

works fine locally for me. Make a simple PHP file echoing 'hello world' and see if PHP is even parsing on your machine.

Check out apache friends and xampp for a php/mysql/apache install program.

Horizon88

What address are you accessing the form from? Is it something like: http://localhost/form.html, or is it something like C:\PHP\www\form.html? It needs to be the first, as sneakyimp said.

sumitkiki

I am using easy PHP for Php .

I have stored all my php documents in C:/PHP/www folder.

Is easy PHP okay or should I go for XAMPP.

Thanks for replying.

Sumit Arora🙂 🙂

bradgrafelman

You didn't answer Horizon88's question (which is a simplified version of sneakyimp's post)...

sumitkiki

Hello Everyone,

I tried http://localhost/file.html,but it is giving wrong message.

First of all,I open a page with internet browser,then fill name in textbox,click on submit button and then dreamweave window opens up.

Thanks and Regards
Sumit Arora