Can anyone help me make this work? I am very very new to PHP and I was just trying to create a single file thing which asks for a name and returns it. Can anyone help see where I am going wrong? I am testing it on wtools.io
Thanks in advance for any help :)
<form method="POST" action="formFunction()" name="form1">
Name: <input type="text" name="name">
<input name="s1" value="Submit LoL !" type="submit">
</form>
<?php
function formFunction() {
$name = $_POST['name'];
echo $name;
}```
You cannot call a PHP function as the action of your form. Instead, you should create a second file/script, something like post.php, and use that as the action. For example:
<form action="post.php" method="post" name="form1">
Then, in your post.php:
<?php
if (!$_POST) {
print "This should only be called on form submit.";
exit();
}
// you should actually test to see if name is supplied before this next line
$name = $_POST['name'];
echo $name;
?>
<!-- do some other stuff... -->
A similar question for your review Calling a particular PHP function on form submit
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I really don't know why my code isn't working! Let me clear it by example..
I got a file named 'index.html' example...
<html>
<body>
<form action="test.php" method="post">
Name: <input type="text" name="test">
<input type="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
And of course the form action file test.php .. example..
<?php
$something = ($_POST["test"]);
// from here I have some PHP codes and this "something" variable will be process in this codes and will print out something spacial..
?>
Now example If I post "Hello, It's not working" then the output will show a spacial design.
But Instead process, it's just printing out whatever I submit in that form.
But when I manually add the variable to "something" and if I execute the "test.php" . Example..
$something = "Hello, It's not working";
Then it works perfectly..
And yes. Also tried GET method.. It's still same as POST.
This is my first question here..
Thanks for any help and suggestions!
First Convert, index.html to php and follow this code:-
<html>
<body>
<form action="test.php" method="post">
Name: <input type="text" value="" name="test">
<input name="submit" value="submit" type="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
$something = $_POST["test"];
}
?>
That's correct _POST:
<?php
//NO ($_POST["test"])
$something = $_POST["test"];
?>
I'll preface this with I'm not a coder nor aspiring to become one.
I just want to play around with something simple.
Please don't feel bad about spoon-feeding me here haha.
All I want is when I hit a my submit button the text entered in the text field is saved to a file called log.text
I want it to overwrite each time.
Once data has been written I want it to redirect to another page.
Tried this but it doesn't create the file nor write to it even if I create it manually. The redirect also doesn't work because I'm an idiot.
Any help guys? :(
<?php
$email = $_REQUEST['email'];
$file = fopen("log.txt","a+");
fwrite($file,$email);
print_r(error_get_last());
header("Location: http://www.example.com/");
?>
<form action= "" method="post" name="form">
<input type="text" name="email">
<br>
<br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit"><br>
</form>
It is because the action element of the form is empty.
It should be \n
<form action="action.php(or any other php file that is handling the form)" method="post" name="form">
This guide offered me the solution I was after.
Thanks anyway guys!
http://www.howtoplaza.com/save-web-form-data-text-file
Because you dint checked whether the form is submitted or not. if submited create log. code given below
<?php
if(isset($_REQUEST['submit']))// if to check whether submit name is passed or not
{
$email = $_REQUEST['email'];
$file = fopen("log.txt","a+");
fwrite($file,$email);
print_r(error_get_last());
header("Location: http://www.example.com/");
}
?>
<html>
<form action= "" method="post" name="form">
<input type="text" name="email">
<br>
<br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit"><br>
</form>
</html>
First time i try to create a simple form using the POST method.Problem is when i click the button nothing gets echoed.
here is my insert.php file :
<?php
if(isset($_POSΤ["newitem"])){
echo $itemnew = $_POSΤ["newitem"];
}
?>
<form action="insert.php" method="POST" >
<input type="text" name="newitem">
<input type="submit" value="Save">
</form>
EDIT: I tried the GET method and it works...Any ideas why that happened? Server configurations?
NEW EDIT: So it turns out i switched method to GET and it worked.Then i switched back to POST (like the code i posted on top) and it works...I have no clue why this happened.Any suggests?
The code you have posted is perfectly valid and should work.
I'm going to guess that you do not have PHP enabled, or it is not working.
<?php ... ?> looks to the browser like a long, malformed HTML tag, and therefore ignores it, making the effect invisible.
Try right-clicking the page and selecting View Source. If you see your PHP there, then the server is indeed not processing it.
The most likely reason for this is probably the same problem I had with my very first bit of PHP code: you're trying to "run" it directly in your browser. This won't work. You need to upload it to a server (or install a server on your computer and call it from there)
Use !empty($_POST['newitem'] instead:
if(!empty($_POSΤ["newitem"])){
echo $itemnew = $_POSΤ["newitem"];
}
empty()
Try the following:
if($_POST) {
if(!empty($_POST['newitem'])) {
$itemnew = $_POSΤ['newitem'];
echo $itemnew;
// or leave it as is: echo $itemnew = $_POSΤ['newitem'];
}
}
?>
<form action="insert.php" method="POST" >
<input type="text" name="newitem">
<input type="submit" value="Save">
</form>
The if($_POST) will make sure the code is only executed on a post. The empty() function will also check if it isset() but also checks if it is empty or not.
Try this :
<?php
if(isset($_POSΤ["newitem"])){
echo $itemnew = $_POSΤ["newitem"];
}
?>
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="POST" >
<input type="text" name="newitem">
<input type="submit" value="Save">
</form>
$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; is pre-defined variable in php.It allows the user to stay on same page after submitting the form.
I have a form on on html outside of php...
<form method="post" action="">
<input type="text" name="user"/></br>
<input type="submit" value="submit" name="login"/>
</form>
then call submit button from php and do this
if(isset($_POST["login"]))
{
print <<<this
<form method="post" action="">
<input type="submit" name="apply"/>
</form>
this;
if(isset($_POST["apply"]))
{ print "it works";}
}
Alright, so the problem is that, "it works" won't print from the second form thats inside the php. it just takes me back to where i came from. Perhaps it's a dumb question, please help though! thanks
The problem is that by the time you're checking if(isset($_POST["apply"])) the login condition becomes invalid because everything is inside the if(isset($_POST["login"])).
Try taking the if(isset($_POST["apply"])) outside the login IF.
Your "apply" code exists only INSIDE the login test code. When you submit that second form, there will be NO login form field, because you didn't include an input/textarea of that name in the second form. So the second form submits, there's no login, and the entire inner code never gets executed. You probably want:
if(isset($_POST["login"]))
{
print <<<this
<form method="post" action="" name="apply">
<input type="hidden" name="login" value="foo" /> <!-- add this line -->
etc...
I'm not sure to understand what you wanna do with this code but you obviously missed some details :
_You did not set the "action" field in your form tag, so I don't understant how you would like the PHP file to get called ?
_Your code if(isset($_POST['login'])) has no sense, you are testing the existence of a value sent by a validation button, you'd rather whrite isset($_POST['user'])
Hoping to have helped you
Your variables are declared in 2 forms, so there will be 2 calls (completely independant) to your php.
So you could have a second submit button inside your second form:
if(isset($_POST["login"]))
{
print <<<this
<form method="post" action="">
<input type="submit" name="apply" value="Second"/>
</form>
this;
}
if(isset($_POST["apply"]))
{ print "it works";}
I have a PHP form that is located on file contact.html.
The form is processed from file processForm.php.
When a user fills out the form and clicks on submit,
processForm.php sends the email and direct the user to - processForm.php
with a message on that page "Success! Your message has been sent."
I do not know much about PHP, but I know that the action that is calling for this is:
// Die with a success message
die("<span class='success'>Success! Your message has been sent.</span>");
How can I keep the message inside the form div without redirecting to the
processForm.php page?
I can post the entire processForm.php if needed, but it is long.
In order to stay on the same page on submit you can leave action empty (action="") into the form tag, or leave it out altogether.
For the message, create a variable ($message = "Success! You entered: ".$input;") and then echo the variable at the place in the page where you want the message to appear with <?php echo $message; ?>.
Like this:
<?php
$message = "";
if(isset($_POST['SubmitButton'])){ //check if form was submitted
$input = $_POST['inputText']; //get input text
$message = "Success! You entered: ".$input;
}
?>
<html>
<body>
<form action="" method="post">
<?php echo $message; ?>
<input type="text" name="inputText"/>
<input type="submit" name="SubmitButton"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>
The best way to stay on the same page is to post to the same page:
<form method="post" action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>">
There are two ways of doing it:
Submit the form to the same page: Handle the submitted form using PHP script. (This can be done by setting the form action to the current page URL.)
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
// Enter the code you want to execute after the form has been submitted
// Display Success or Failure message (if any)
} else {
// Display the Form and the Submit Button
}
Using AJAX Form Submission which is a little more difficult for a beginner than method #1.
You can use the # action in a form action:
<?php
if(isset($_POST['SubmitButton'])){ // Check if form was submitted
$input = $_POST['inputText']; // Get input text
$message = "Success! You entered: " . $input;
}
?>
<html>
<body>
<form action="#" method="post">
<?php echo $message; ?>
<input type="text" name="inputText"/>
<input type="submit" name="SubmitButton"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Friend. Use this way, There will be no "Undefined variable message" and it will work fine.
<?php
if(isset($_POST['SubmitButton'])){
$price = $_POST["price"];
$qty = $_POST["qty"];
$message = $price*$qty;
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="#" method="post">
<input type="number" name="price"> <br>
<input type="number" name="qty"><br>
<input type="submit" name="SubmitButton">
</form>
<?php echo "The Answer is" .$message; ?>
</body>
</html>
You have to use code similar to this:
echo "<div id='divwithform'>";
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) // if form was submitted (if you came here with form data)
{
echo "Success";
}
else // if form was not submitted (if you came here without form data)
{
echo "<form> ... </form>";
}
echo "</div>";
Code with if like this is typical for many pages, however this is very simplified.
Normally, you have to validate some data in first "if" (check if form fields were not empty etc).
Please visit www.thenewboston.org or phpacademy.org. There are very good PHP video tutorials, including forms.
You can see the following example for the Form action on the same page
<form action="" method="post">
<table border="1px">
<tr><td>Name: <input type="text" name="user_name" ></td></tr>
<tr><td align="right"> <input type="submit" value="submit" name="btn">
</td></tr>
</table>
</form>
<?php
if(isset($_POST['btn'])){
$name=$_POST['user_name'];
echo 'Welcome '. $name;
}
?>
simple just ignore the action attribute and use !empty (not empty) in php.
<form method="post">
<input type="name" name="name">
<input type="submit">
</form>
<?PHP
if(!empty($_POST['name']))
{
echo $_POST['name'];
}
?>
Try this... worked for me
<form action="submit.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="input">
<input type="submit">
</form>
------ submit.php ------
<?php header("Location: ../index.php"); ?>
I know this is an old question but since it came up as the top answer on Google, it is worth an update.
You do not need to use jQuery or JavaScript to stay on the same page after form submission.
All you need to do is get PHP to return just a status code of 204 (No Content).
That tells the page to stay where it is. Of course, you will probably then want some JavaScript to empty the selected filename.
What I do is I want the page to stay after submit when there are errors...So I want the page to be reloaded :
($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"])
While I include the sript from a seperate file e.g
include_once "test.php";
I also read somewhere that
if(isset($_POST['submit']))
Is a beginners old fasion way of posting a form, and
if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST')
Should be used (Not my words, read it somewhere)