newbie really need help.

Anon

please don't laughing if the problem i am having really sounds too stupid:

i just started learning php, i setup apache and php on my own computer running on winXP. i believe PHP works since i installed Mysql and PHPBB with no problem and i can use phpBB, also no problem with mysqladmin.

now, i just wrote a simple form, which just let user
type in a name and hit sumbit, and my php suppose to output the user input.

<?
if ($submit){
echo $radio;
}
?>

    <form action="< ?echo $PHP_SELF? >" method=POST>


    <input type="text" name="foo" size=10>


    <select name="checks[]" size=5 multiple>


    <option value="cats">Cats


    <option value="dogs">Dogs


    </select>


    <input type="radio" name="radio" value="male"> Male


    <input type="radio" name="radio" value="Female"> FeMale


    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Let's do this!">


    </form>

the error i got everytime i hit submit is that:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /< on this server.

Apache/1.3.23 Server at localhost Port 80

and if i look at apache's log file, it says:

[Mon May 13 13:01:54 2002] [error] [client ******] Filename is not valid: d:/myweb/local/<

anyone know why? i think maybe some config i didn't set in apache, but what? any help?

Anon

I think your problem is here:

<form action="< ?echo $PHP_SELF? >" method=POST>

try this:

<form action="<? echo $PHP_SELF ?>" method=POST>

or better tyet, this:

<form action="<? echo basename($PHP_SELF) ?>" method=POST>

Anon

[Tue May 14 08:02:36 2002] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Undefined variable: submit in c:\apache\htdocs\test-submit.php on line 2

[Tue May 14 08:02:36 2002] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Undefined variable: PHP_SELF in c:\apache\htdocs\test-submit.php on line 9

this is the new error i got in the log of apache.
when i click on the submit button in my php forum.nothing really happenns but reset my forum. it suppose to just output the name that i inputed.

i tried both,
<form action="<? echo $PHP_SELF ?>" method=POST>

<form action="<? echo basename($PHP_SELF) ?>" method=POST>

any idea why?