[RESOLVED] Form in Include will not accept data

Ralph2

I have been trying to get my index.php to make a choice.. with a cookie set welcome guest or without a cookie show the login form.

With help from this forum this looked like it would work.

<?php

if (isset($_COOKIE['lsvs_user])) {
 echo "Welcome " . $_COOKIE["lsvs_user"] . "!<br />"; 
  print "<a href=\"home.php\">Click here</a> to enter the site!";
} else { 
  include("index1.php");
}

?>

But... the form that is on the include page (index1.php will not accept data. If I open the page on its own with my browser the form works just fine..

Any thoughts... please🙂

NogDog

At a wild guess, I suspect something is broken in the HTML in the resulting output. Try a "view source" of the resulting page when it includes the login form, copy all the HTML, and pasted it in at the validator: http://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_input

Ralph2

Thanks NogDog
That did point out my error.. lots of them. Evidently when using "include" if there are named div's and div id's that are the same in both files then the thing breaks.. Makes sense when one thinks of it.
With a very pared down version of index1 (no code but my form) I have it working.

Thanks again.. and I will run some of my other working pages through that validation link. It points out all kinds of little errors that do not seem to break things but..🙂

DaveRandom

Ralph2

Welcome to the world of validators!

CSS Validator
Javascript Validator

These can eat hours of your time getting everything right, but it is totally worth it in the end.

You will also need to learn to use the right doctype declaration for what you are doing - I have abandoned support for older browsers, and now only develop in XHTML 1.0. This means that everyone who has a sensible browser gets the same result every time, and people who don't are encouraged to upgrade. We can't keep catering for people who refuse to move with times forever...

JSLint (the javascript validator) can be particularly unkind and make you tear your hair out very quickly, but it has taught me a lot about Javascript and the way it should/should not be used.

There is, before anyone asks, no such validator for PHP - that is because PHP is self validating in way, if you get something wrong, error messages will tell you what you got wrong. I have, however, found this online syntax checker useful in the past, but it is not doing anything more than any PHP installation, it's simple presenting your code and the error message(s) back to you in an easy to read way.