I have a very simple HTML form that is supposed to send information to the file written in action attribute via GET but somehow it's transfering the information back to index.php:
index.php
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Sandbox</title>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
<h1>PHP Forms Sandbox</h1>
<form acton="process_form.php" method="get">
<label for="username">Username:</label>
<input type="text" name="username" id="username" value="" />
<label for="email">E-mail:</label>
<input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="" />
<input type="submit" name="submit_btn" id="submit_btn" value="Submit" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
process_form.php
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Sandbox</title>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
<h1>PHP Response Sandbox</h1>
<?php
$username = $_GET["username"];
$email = $_GET["email"];
echo $username . " : " . $email . "<br />";
?>
</body>
</html>
The bizarre aspect is that when I submit the form, the URL shows that it is not even using process_form.php:
http://127.0.0.1/Learning/?username=test&email=x%40test.com&submit_btn=Submit
If I manually change the URL to include process_form.php it seems to be working fine and I get the results I am looking for:
http://127.0.0.1/Learning/process_form.php?username=test&email=x%40test.com&submit_btn=Submit
On my development computer, I'm running EasyPHP 14.1 local WAMP server and thought it might be the root of the problem so I uploaded the files to my website that is running newest PHP on Apache, but the problem still exists there.
What am I doing wrong?
you have a typo error in action; you have given acton. Should be like this:
<form action="process_form.php" method="get">
First thing - you have a typo:
<form action="process_form.php" method="get">
^
The second thing - in my opinion the best method of handling forms is using POST method, not GET, so I would change it to:
<form action="process_form.php" method="post">
and in process_form.php I would use $_POST instead of $_GET
After digging around your question,
Index.php
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Sandbox</title>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
<h1>PHP Forms Sandbox</h1>
<form action="process_form.php" method="get">
<label for="username">Username:</label>
<input type="text" name="username" id="username" value="" />
<label for="email">E-mail:</label>
<input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="" />
<input type="submit" name="submit_btn" id="submit_btn" value="Submit" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
process_form.php
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Sandbox</title>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
<h1>PHP Response Sandbox</h1>
<?php
$username = $_GET["username"];
$email = $_GET["email"];
echo $username . " : " . $email . "<br />";
?>
</body>
</html>
Note: If you will not specify form method, By default it will take GET method. So please make sure action should be perfect.
Above code just copy and paste, it should work perfect.
Ask me for further clarification.
Thanks,
Gauttam
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im trying to make a madlibs kind of game, right now i got everything working besides 1 thing. the output should overwrite the questions instead of showing above the questions. how can i manage to do this?
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
<title>Mad Libs</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="MadLibs.css">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com">
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Libre+Baskerville:wght#700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<form action="" method="POST">
<h1> MadLibs</h1>
<?php
if($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST"){
$Input1 = $_POST["Input1"];
$Input2 = $_POST["Input2"];
$Input3 = $_POST["Input3"];
$Input4 = $_POST["Input4"];
echo "here is a test $Input1. here is an other test $Input2 and again an other test
$Input4 test $Input3.";
}else{
<p id="Text">test question <input type="text" required name="Input1" placeholder="Enter your answer.."></p>
<p id="Text">test question <input type="text" required name="Input2" placeholder="Enter your answer.."></p>
<p id="Text">test question<input type="text" required name="Input3" placeholder="Enter your answer.."></p>
<p id="Text">test question <input type="text" required name="Input4" placeholder="Enter your answer.."></p>
<input id="Submit" type="submit" name="submit" value="Send">
</form>
?>
<footer>
<p> A #2021 website</p>
</footer>
</body>
</html>
The end result shows like this but the questions and the input field should be gone when the submit button is pressed
I am getting an error page from the server when trying to view my test.php page. Everything on the page loads fine if I remove the php tags.
I am getting an "http error 500" with the following code:
<!doctype HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<Title>Test</Title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/CSS/default.css">
</head>
<body>
<?php
echo "<form>
<input type="hidden" name="uid" value="Anonymous">
<input type="hidden" name="date" value='".date()."'>
<textarea name="Message"></textarea><br>
<button type="submit" name="submit">Comment</button>
</form>";
?>
</body>
</html>
Or even strip out most of the echo/print
<!doctype HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<Title>Test</Title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/CSS/default.css">
</head>
<body>
<form>
<input type="hidden" name="uid" value="Anonymous">
<input type="hidden" name="date" value="<?php print(date()); ?>">
<textarea name="Message"></textarea><br>
<button type="submit" name="submit">Comment</button>
</form>
</body>
</html>
```
<?php
echo '<form>
<input type="hidden" name="uid" value="Anonymous">
<input type="hidden" name="date" value="'.date().'">
<textarea name="Message"></textarea><br>
<button type="submit" name="submit">Comment</button>
</form>';
?>
```
this should work.
Use the following:-
<!doctype HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<Title>Test</Title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/CSS/default.css">
</head>
<body>
<?php
echo "<form>
<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"uid\" value=\"Anonymous\">
<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"date\" value='".date()."'>
<textarea name=\"Message\"></textarea><br>
<button type=\"submit\" name=\"submit\">Comment</button>
</form>";
?>
</body>
</html>
I am having a problem with my form submission. The code is below. When I submit, it is submitting as GET and not as POST, even though my method is post. I have tried method="POST" and method="post". What am I missing here?
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
</head>
<body>
<div>
<?php
echo "POST: ";
print_r($_POST);
echo " GET :";
print_r($_GET);
?>
<form role="form" name='test' method=“post” action="test2.php">
<label for="name">Name</label>
<input name="name" type="text" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" />
</form>
</div>
</body>
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Echo is not printing fname. Please let me know why echo is not working. Echo is not printing fname.
html form
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>PHP Form</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
<form action="submit.php" method="post">
<h1>Sign Up</h1>
<fieldset>
<legend>New Users</legend>
<label for="First Name">First Name</label>
<input type="text" name="fname" placeholder="First Name" required>
<label for="Last Name">Last Name</label>
<input type="text" name="lname" placeholder="Last Name" required>
<label for="Username">Username</label>
<input type="text" id="username" placeholder="Username"requiredrequiredrequired>
<br >
<input type="Submit" required name="submit"value="Submit">
</fieldset>
</form>
</body>
</html>
submit.php
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php $fname = $_post["fname"]; echo $fname; ?>
<?php $lname= $_post["lname"]; ?>
</body>
</html>
change
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php $fname = $_post["fname"]; echo $fname; ?>
<?php $lname= $_post["lname"]; ?>
</body>
</html>
to
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php $fname = $_POST["fname"]; echo $fname; ?>
<?php $lname= $_POST["lname"]; ?>
</body>
</html>
I think it's because post variable needs to be in upper case
(PHP 4 >= 4.1.0, PHP 5)
$_POST -- $HTTP_POST_VARS [deprecated] — HTTP POST variables
http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.post.php
Fix your html first.
Is it true you write like this?
<input type="text" id="username" placeholder="Username"requiredrequiredrequired>
I try it and it work.
I create echo.php.
Test this.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>PHP Form</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
<?php
$fname = $_POST["fname"]; echo $fname;
$lname= $_POST["lname"]; echo $lname;
?>
<form action="echo.php" method="post">
<h1>Sign Up</h1>
<fieldset>
<legend>New Users</legend>
<label for="First Name">First Name</label>
<input type="text" name="fname" placeholder="First Name" />
<label for="Last Name">Last Name</label>
<input type="text" name="lname" placeholder="Last Name" />
<label for="Username">Username</label>
<input type="text" id="username" placeholder="Username" />
<br >
<input type="Submit" required name="submit"value="Submit">
</fieldset>
</form>
</body>
</html>
You can make more beautiful code.
Try this
NOTE :For easiness, i joined both of the page together and named it as submit.php. U can separate it
<?php
if(isset($_POST["fname"])){
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php $fname = $_POST["fname"];
echo $fname;
$lname= $_POST["lname"];
echo $lname?>
</body>
</html>
<?php
}
else{
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>PHP Form</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
<form action="submit.php" method="post">
<h1>Sign Up</h1>
<fieldset>
<legend>New Users</legend>
<label for="First Name">First Name</label>
<input type="text" name="fname" placeholder="First Name" required>
<label for="Last Name">Last Name</label>
<input type="text" name="lname" placeholder="Last Name" required>
<label for="Username">Username</label>
<input type="text" id="username" placeholder="Username"requiredrequiredrequired>
<br >
<input type="Submit" required name="submit"value="Submit">
</fieldset>
</form>
</body>
</html>
<?php }?>
I've started learning PHP. Managed to setup things.
I'm using php version 5.3.13.
I'm trying to post some info to a html form and receive it in a php file.
For the purpose i'm using $_Post variable and the ouput at the php file is blank.
Below is the html code.
<body>
<form action="report.php" method="POST" >
<label for="firstname">First name:</label>
<input type="text" id="firstname" name="firstname" /><br />
<input type="submit" value="Report Abduction" name="submit" />
</form>
</body>
And below is the report.php code
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$name = $_POST['firstname'] ;
print($name);
?>
</body>
</html>
Can any one advise what i'm missing ?
Thanks
Here is a super simple example, I suggest you begin to look for example tutorials # your favorite search engine, or buy a book.
Edit: Do you even have PHP installed? you mention inetpub which is a IIS path.
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']=='POST' && !empty($_POST['firstname'])){
//Do something with posted data
$out = htmlentities($_POST['firstname']).' has been abducted!';
}else{
//Form has not been posted so show form
$out = <<<FORM
<form action="" method="POST" >
<label for="firstname">First name:</label>
<input type="text" id="firstname" name="firstname" /><br />
<input type="submit" value="Report Abduction" name="submit" />
</form>
FORM;
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>My first test Script</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>My first test Script</h1>
<?php echo(isset($out))?$out:null; ?>
</body>
</html>