PHP form issue does not calculate.

[jimkibuz]

The php form below does not calculate can't figure out what is wrong any help or direction will be appreciated.

<p class="tenTitle"><p class="tenTitle">Module 4i: Profit / Loss Forecast<br />


<?php


// NAME STEP AND GIVE VALUE TO QUESTION VARIABLES SO ERROR CHECKING DOES NOT HAVE TO BE RECREATED FOR EVERY PAGE
$stepNumber = '4i';
$numQuestions = '9';

//get values from the $_post array:
$totalRev = $_POST['revenue'];
echo "totalRev: ".$totalRev."<br />";
$vCost = $_POST['cost'];
echo "vCost: ".$vCost."<br />";
 $overheadCost = $_POST['overhead'];
echo "overheadCost: ".$overheadCost."<br />";
$taxes = $_POST['taxes'];
echo "taxes: ".$taxes."<br />";
  $otherIncome = $_POST['other'];  
echo "other: ".$other."<br />";


//Calculate the gross profit:
$gross = $totalRev - $vCost;
echo "gross: ".$gross."<br />";

//Calculate the net profit:
$netProfit = $gross - $overheadCost;
echo "netProfit: ".$netProfit."<br />";

    // Calculate Income after taxes:
    $afterTaxes = $netProfit - $taxes;
	echo "afterTaxes: ".$afterTaxes."<br />";

  // Calculate the Total Income:
    $totalIncome = $afterTaxes + $otherIncome; 
	echo "totalIncome: ".$TotalIncome."<br />";

// Print out the results
print ' <table border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="3" width="350">
	<tr>
	    <td align="left" valign="top" border="1">
				Total Revenue</td><td><input type="text" style="40" 		name="totalRev" value="'.$totalRev.'"> 

			</td>
		</tr>

        <tr>
	  <td align="left" valign="top" border="1">
				Less: Variable Cost</td><td><input type="text" style="40" name="vCost" value="'.$vCost.'"> 

			</td>
		</tr>

        <tr>
	    <td align="left" valign="top" border="1">
				Gross profit</td><td><input type="text" style="40" name="grossProfit" value="'.$GrossProfit.'">

			</td>
		</tr>
        <tr>
	    <td align="left" valign="top" border="1">
				Less: Overhead Cost</td><td>
				<input type="text" style="40" name="overhead" value="'.$overheadCost.'">
			</td>
		</tr>

        <tr>
	    <td align="left" valign="top" border="1">
				Net Profit</td><td>
				<input type="text" style="40" name="netProfit" value="'.$netProfit.'">
			</td>
		</tr>
        <tr>
	    <td align="left" valign="top" border="1">
				Taxes</td><td>
				<input type="text" style="40" name="taxes" value="'.$taxes.'">
			</td>
		</tr>
        <tr>
	    <td align="left" valign="top" border="1">
				Profit After Taxes</td><td>
				<input type="text" style="40" name="profitAfterTaxes" value="'.$profitAfterTaxes.'">
			</td>
		</tr>
        <tr>
	    <td align="left" valign="top" border="1">
				Other Income</td><td>
				<input type="text" style="40" name="otherIncome" value="'.$otherIncome.'">
			</td>
		</tr>
        <tr>
	    <td align="left" valign="top" border="1">
				Net Income</td><td>
				<input type="text" style="40" name="netIncome" value="'.$netIncome.'">
			</td>
		</tr>
       <tr>
          <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" border="1">
            <input type="submit" name="submit" id="Submit" value="Calculate" />
          </label></td>
          </tr>

</table></form>';	



// DEFINE SESSION VARIABLES
	$_SESSION['email']=$_POST['email'];
	$_SESSION['emailCc']=$_POST['emailCc'];
	$_SESSION['name']=$_POST['name'];

// DEFINE VARIABLES FOR MAILING TO USER AND BUZGATE
	$to = '[e-mail],'.$_POST['email'];
	$email_subject = "Step ".$stepNumber." in Buzgate's Five Step Program";

	for ($i = 1; $i <= $numQuestions; $i++) {
		$eBodyQuestions .= $questions[$i]."\n"
	.$_POST['data'.$i]."\n";
	}

	$email_body = $eBodyQuestions;
	$headers = "From:".$_POST['email'];

//PLACE VARIABLES IN MAIL FUNCTION
	mail($to, $email_subject, $email_body, $headers);

// DEFINE VARIABLES FOR MAILING TO USER AND BUZGATE
	$toCc = $_POST['emailCc'];
	$email_subjectCc = "Step ".$stepNumber." in Buzgate's Five Step Program from ".$_POST['name'];
	$email_bodyCc = $_POST['name']." has sent this to you from www.BUZGate.org/8.0/".$state_abbrv_low."/".$page_name."\n
	Please contact us at [e-mail] if you have received this in error.\n";

	$email_bodyCc = $email_bodyCc.$eBodyQuestions;
	$headersCc = "From:[e-mail]";

//PLACE VARIABLES IN CC MAIL FUNCTION
	mail($toCc, $email_subjectCc, $email_bodyCc, $headersCc);





// DISPLAY RESPONSE TO CORRECTLY FILLING OUT FORM
	echo "<p class='textCenter'>Thank you ".$_POST['name']." for completing Step ".$stepNumber."</p>

	<p class='textCenter'><a href='five_steps_4summary.html'>Click here</a> to continue to 4Summary</p>

	<p class='textCenter'>Or <a href='five_steps_".$stepNumber.".html'>try this form again</a>.</p>";

?>

[dalecosp]

Could it be that there's no "<form>" tag ?

[jimkibuz]

does it need to be in both the html and the php?

[bradgrafelman]

Considering that "<form>" isn't a valid PHP statement, I would say no, you don't want to put that in your PHP code. 🙂

Where is the form you submit that this script is processing? What is the output of the above script?

[jimkibuz]

<!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 http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>

<style type="text/css">
#tenForm form table tr td {
	text-align: center;
}
</style>
</head>

<body>

<p class="tenTitle">Module 4i: Profit / Loss Forecast<br />
<div id="tenForm">  What are your financial estimates for the first 12 months of operation including expenses, income, profit, taxes, income after taxes, and other money income from sources other than business (i.e., Social Security, spouse's wages, retirement pensions, etc.)

<p>In forecasting your businesses potential, it is critical to distinguish between what you hope will happen, and what you expect will happen. We are usually quite optimistic when we think about our businesses potential, and are reluctant to accept that this is the "best of all possible worlds" expectation and reality may be considerable lower. It is very important to be as realistic as possible in developing these expectations or forecasts of your businesses potential, because you are making important decisions about the investment of your own time and money. Others such as family members may be involved as well. In Step 3, you completed a series of exercises that allowed you to develop a <a href="http://www.buzgate.org/8.0/excel/forecasting_wrksht.xls" target="_blank">12 month forecast</a>. Now is a good time to review those results and think again about whether or not the assumptions are realistic, and the results make sense. Your Accounting professional wiil need to help you estimateyour taxes otherwise enter 0(zero). For other money income; list income from any other sources such as social security, spouses wages, etc. This also is a good time to discuss these results with your counselor or mentor. Once again, the process of discussing these ideas helps to see whether or not they make sense.</p>		  


<form action="five4i.php" method="POST" >
			<table width="350" border="1" align="center" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="3">
		<tr>
		    <td align="center" valign="top" border="1">
					Total Revenue</td><td><input type="text" style="40" name="totalRev" value=""> 

			</td>
		</tr>

        <tr align="left">
	    <td align="center" valign="top" border="1">
				Less: Variable Cost</td><td><input type="text" style="40" name="vCost" value=""> 

			</td>


        <tr>
	    <td align="center" valign="top" border="1">
				Gross profit</td><td><input type="text" style="40" name="grossProfit" value="">

			</td>

        <tr>
	    <td align="center" valign="top" border="1">
				Less: Overhead Cost</td><td>
				<input type="text" style="40" name="overhead" value="">
			</td>
		</tr>

        <tr>
	    <td align="center" valign="top" border="1">
				Net Profit</td><td>
				<input type="text" style="40" name="netProfit" value="">
			</td>
		</tr>
        <tr>
	    <td align="center" valign="top" border="1">
				Taxes</td><td>
				<input type="text" style="40" name="taxes" value="">
			</td>
		</tr>
        <tr>
	    <td align="center" valign="top" border="1">
				Profit After Taxes</td><td>
				<input type="text" style="40" name="profitAfterTaxes" value="">
			</td>
		</tr>
        <tr>
	    <td align="center" valign="top" border="1">
				Other Income</td><td>
				<input type="text" style="40" name="otherIncome" value="">
			</td>
		</tr>
        <tr>
	    <td align="left" valign="top" border="1">
				Net Income</td><td>
				<input type="text" style="40" name="netIncome" value="">
			</td>
		</tr>
        <tr>
          <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" border="1">
            <input type="submit" name="submit" id="Submit" value="Calculate" />
          </label></td>
          </tr>


</table>
  <table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="2">
  <tr>
    <td valign="top" border="0">
      Submitting the form (* = required)
    </th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td class="submitCell">
			'.$emailSpan.'<br />
			(to receive a copy of this form)<br />
		  <input type="text" size="40" maxlength="100" name="email" value="" />
	</td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td class="submitCell">
			Send Copy To eMentor<br />
		  <input type="text" size="40" maxlength="100" name="emailCc" value="" />
	</td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td class="submitCell">
      '.$nameSpan.'<br />
			(*required if sending a copy)<br />
		  <input type="text" size="40" maxlength="100" name="name" value="" />
	</td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td align="center" class="submitCell">
      <input type="reset" value="Clear" />
			<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /><br />

	  <a href="'.$filePathState.'about_privacy.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9px;">View our privacy policy</span></a>
</td>
  </tr>
</table>
</form></div>
</body>
</html>

[bradgrafelman]

Well first problem I see is this:

$totalRev = $_POST['revenue'];

There is no form element named "revenue" in the HTML form you posted above.