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Reputation: 1

Why does the submit button display my php file?

I need to setup this website to A(save the input to a dataset) and B(display the immediate input to the same page. I got it all set up, but everytime I click submit, my page displays my .php file. How do I fix this?

    <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head lang="en">
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <title>Newsletter Signup</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />

    <script language="javascript">
        function display() {
            var name = document.getElementById("name").value;          
            var email = document.getElementById("email").value;
            var result = name + '! We will start sending our newsletter to ' + email;
            document.getElementById('spanResult').textContent = result;
             
        }
    </script>
</head>

<body>
    <div id="body">
        <form id="Signup" action="membersList.php" method='post'>
            <h2>Sign-Up</h2>
            <br />
            Name: <input type="text" name="name" id="name">
<br />
            E-mail: <input type="text" name="email" id="email">
            <br />

             <input type="submit" name="submit" onclick="display()" value="submit"/>
            
        </form>
        <br />
        <h3>Welcome </h3> <span id='spanResult'></span>
       
    </div>
</body>
</html>

my php file

<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
    $xml = new SimpleXMLElement("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><member></member>");

    $xml->addChild('name', $_POST['name']);
    $xml->addChild('email', $_POST['email']);

    $asXML = $xml->asXML();
    $file = fopen("data.xml","w+");
    fwrite($file,$asXML);
    fclose($file);
    print_r(error_get_last());

    if(file_exists('./data.xml'))
    {
        $myXML = file_get_contents('./data.xml');
        $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($myXML);
        $xmlpretty = $xml->asXML();

        // pretty print the XML in browser
        header('content-type: text/xml');
        echo $xmlpretty;
    }

}
?>

Any sort of advice to improve the code will also be appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 937

Answers (1)

Gabriel Alejandro L&#243;pez L&#243;pez
Gabriel Alejandro L&#243;pez L&#243;pez

Reputation: 670

If the code of the PHP file is shown, normally is because your web server is not processing the PHP code. It interprets it as text.

Try creating a info.php file in the root of your web directory, with this content and check if is correctly rendered:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Then call it with http://myserver/info.php It should display a long page with information about your php environment.

Upvotes: 1

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