MovingShadow

Hey everyone,

I've just joined this forum and am currently in the early stages of learning PHP. But I have a small problem and was wondering if anyone would kindly help me. I have made a basic form with three text inputs and a submit button.

The submit buttons leads to a basic PHP form processing which displays the contents that the user has input. However when I submit the form it simply opens the php processing script in my default text editor (EditPlus).

I am currently running a WAMP setup on Windows Vista and I have checked my configuration and can perfectly run individual PHP scripts in my browser (IE7). I only seem to have a problem when I try to pass my form to my PHP script via the submit button.

It would be much appreciated if anyone could provide me with a solution to this problem.

Kind Regards,

Harry

Mocker

What does the address of the page with the form, and the address of the page the form goes to look like? If your form and your processing page are both in the same folder, with the same extension, and same permissions, then your forms action tag is likely not sending you to that script correctly. I mainly use linux, but I've used XAMPP before for local windows testing and it setup all the permissions for me so that I just had to keep my php scripts in the right directory with the right extension.

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MovingShadow

Hey [Mocker],

This is what I have in the address bar:

Order form:

C:\wamp\www\MyWork\1\order_form.html

In the case of the processing script, I dont have an address for this page because when I click on the submit button it opens up the processing script in my editor straight away. However both the order form and the processing script are in the same folder (with the correct extensions. This is what I have for the form action in the order form:

<form action="processorder.php" method="post">

I can execute processororder.php on its own perfectly fine - but I cant seem to get it to execute from my forms submit button. I have also tried various other php scripts to ensure that I can run php and again they all work fine.


Kind Regards,

Harry

MovingShadow

Problem fixed. I had been stupidly trying to run my scripts locally via C:\ and not through the wamp server. Therefore my php processing script was not interpreted by the php engine.

Regards,

ZiggyZack99

Try:
http://localhost/MyWork/1/order_form.html

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