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Fenix
Fenix

Reputation: 21

PHP Script won't load

I'm new to web development and have been wrestling with this problem for several hours now, so I've decided to turn to your wisdom. I'm trying to design a little webpage with a database for my wife to store her recipes in, but I'm having trouble getting form submission to work. Here is the code for the webpage where I take the form information in:

<html><body>
Enter the information below to add a new ingredient for use in your recipes.
<form action="add_to_database.php" method="post">
Name: <input name="name" type="text" />
Serving: <input type="text" name="serving" />
Calories: <input type="text" name="calories" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
</body></html>

And here is some silly code I've been trying to display on the page to see if I can even get the form submission to work:

<html><body>
<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
echo $name."<br />";
?>
</body></html>

Unfortunately, the page comes back as completely back (after I hit the submit button). What's absolutely baffling to me is that I've copied and pasted the examples from this page into some files and everything seems to work fine. So it seems as though apache and php are working correctly, but I'm messing up somewhere along the way. My apologies in advance if this seems like a stupid question but for the life of me I can't figure it out.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1564

Answers (3)

Sean Kimball
Sean Kimball

Reputation: 4494

a bit of a longshot, but if you can verify that php is pro essing the page. Clean up your html, you are missing the dtd, head, and encoding. . hard to say how a browser is going to interpret a form (missing a name attribute) without these.

Upvotes: 0

samir chauhan
samir chauhan

Reputation: 1525

Do you name the other file as add_to_database.php where the form is submitted. Instead you can test on teh same page by removing the add_to_database.php from the form action.

form action="" method="post">
    Name: <input name="name" type="text" />
    Serving: <input type="text" name="serving" />
    Calories: <input type="text" name="calories" />
    <input type="submit" />
</form>

and write the php code on the same page as

$name = $_POST['name'];

echo $name;

If this is not working for you. Create a php file named test.php and type phpinfo(); there.

Upvotes: 2

thomasrutter
thomasrutter

Reputation: 117421

Verify that your page is indeed being processed by PHP - obvious question, but does your PHP file have a .php extension? Do other things like phpinfo() or echo "Test"; work?

Check the error log in /var/log/apache2/error.log or similar (if on Linux, dunno where that'd be on Windows).

Try turning display_errors on in the PHP configuration (this is a good idea only for a development install, not a production server).

Upvotes: 1

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