first PHP page

paulnf

I have run into a problem that I cannot figure out and I'm sure its a simple one but being new to this I was hoping someone could lend me some direct. I am retrieving information from a html page and taking that information and feeding it back to the user via PHP. I'm using PHP 5. here is the html code.

<form action="handl_form.php" method="post">
	Mr. <input type="radio" name="title" value="Mr." />
	Mrs. <input type="radio" name="title" value="Mrs." />
	Ms. <input type="radio" name="title" value="Ms." />
	<br />
	Name: <input type="text" name="name" size="20" />
	<br />
	Email Address: <input type="text" name="email" size="20" />
	<br />
	Response: <select name="response">
	<option value="Excellent">This is excellent</option>
	<option value="Ok">This is Ok</option>
	<option value="Boring">This is boring</option>
	</select>
	<br />
	Comments: <textarea name="comments" rows="3" cols="30"></textarea>
	<br />
	<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send my feedback" />
</form>

and here is my PHP page.

<?php
$title = $_POST['title'];
$name = $_POST['name'];
$response = $_POST['response'];
$comments = $_POST['comments'];

print "Thank you $title $name for your comments. <br />";
print "You stated that you found this example to be $response and added: $comments";

?>

if i run the php page and asign a value to the $name variable it will display the information. if i run it from the html page it displays the php page as html output. not sure what i did wrong. here is the output that happens when i select the submit button.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
<title>Untitled 1</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php
$title = $POST['title'];
$name = $POST['name'];
$response = $POST['response'];
$comments = $POST['comments'];

print "Thank you $title $name for your comments. <br />";
print "You stated that you found this example to be $response and added: $comments";

?>
</body>

</html>

laserlight

Are you sure that PHP has been correctly installed and configured? It looks like handl_form.php is not being processed as a PHP script.

nrg_alpha

While I haven't tested any of this, I see in PHP that you have not first tested to see if someone has actually hit the submit button.. so I would try this:

if(isset($_POST['submit_x']) && isset($_POST['submit_y'])){
   $title = $_POST['title']; 
   $name = $_POST['name']; 
   $response = $_POST['response']; 
   $comments = $_POST['comments']; 

   print "Thank you $title $name for your comments. <br />"; 
   print "You stated that you found this example to be $response and added:$comments";
}

Does this work?

Cheers,

NRG

nrg_alpha

Ok, now I've tested your intial code.. yep.. basically, what Laser said.. I get a an error that handl_form.php is not found on my server (I am testing this locally on my laptop).

Cheers,

NRG

paulnf

If i launch the PHP page it does process the code. I did the phpinfo() test and it worked. it seems as tho when i try and call the php page it loads it but doesn't process the code. if it will help i will provide the phpinfo data.

thanks for your help so far.

paulnf

Ok I feel stupid,
I figured it out. I am using Microsoft expressions web 2 as my php editor. interesting when i set that up I went in the site settings and configured the system to use expression development server as to handle my php and asp.net pages per the instructions for installing php and using it with this product. well what tipped me off was that when i launched the php page by itself in the preview window everything was fine i could see the development server create an instance launching from localhost. when i ran the html pages it did not do that. I went in and changed the setting to use the Microsoft Expression Development Server for all of my web pages then the code was properly processed and the output was sent to the browser as expected.

thanks for the input guys it was useful in helping me diagnose the problem.