PHP script include an html document

ScaryMinds

Sorry not at the machine I am having problems with.

Have a script "main.php" that includes_once a document to connect to my database, and that also includes an html form document. In the html document I am calling the main.php as the post event.

I seem to not be picking up the values entered to the form 🙁

Guess the short queston is, does anyone have an example of how to include a form template in a php script and have the form reiterate the script?

bradgrafelman

Not really sure what you're asking... it's probably best if you could post some of the code for us to see what you're trying to do.

ScaryMinds

Remembering I haven't currently got access to my development machine, but after something like

<?php

$include_once "database.php"

if(isset("submit"))
{
     // Process html fields to database
 } else {
     include $pathtohtml."/form.html
 }
?>

And the form

<html>
<head></head>
<form post= "main.php">
    <!--- text fields --->
     submit
</form>
</html>

So the php script includes the html formt that then recalls the script to process the user input. Hope that makes sense.

bradgrafelman

There's no "including" or "recalling" done... PHP can read an HTML file and output it to a browser. Then, a user can fill out a form and send the values to a script (either via POST or GET).

We'd have to see the actual code you're using to see what you're doing wrong. Other than that, all I can do is point you off to this manual page: [man]variables.external[/man].

ScaryMinds

bradgrafelman;10946913 wrote:
There's no "including" or "recalling" done... PHP can read an HTML file and output it to a browser. Then, a user can fill out a form and send the values to a script (either via POST or GET).

We'd have to see the actual code you're using to see what you're doing wrong. Other than that, all I can do is point you off to this manual page: [man]variables.external[/man].

Am trying to build something that will allow my members to select their own look and field, css thingy...

Anywise with no access to my dev box tried to replicate

<?php

if(isset($_POST["user"]))
{
	die("ok user = ".$_POST['user']);
} else {
	include "test.html";
}
?>

<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<form name="input" action="test.php" method="post">
Username:
<input type="text" name="user" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
</body>

Naturally that works fine 🙁 The only real difference I have from the example above to the dev stuff is use of a css document in the html and a call to a MySQL open routine above the php isset check.