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This is driving me crazy because I had this form before and it did work and now I am not able to make it work.
The problem is that when I press the button "Submit" instead of submit the form, the "ReportIssueForm.php" file opens as a txt file in the browser and I see all the code.
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Here is the HTML code to call the PHP file:
<form name="htmlform" method="post" action="ReportIssueForm.php">
<table width="450px">
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<label for="first_name"><b>First Name *</b></label>
</td>
<td valign="top">
<input type="text" name="first_name" maxlength="50" size="30">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"">
<label for="last_name"><b>Last Name *</b></label>
</td>
<td valign="top">
<input type="text" name="last_name" maxlength="50" size="30">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<label for="email"><b>Email *<font size='2'></b></label>
</td>
<td valign="top">
<input type="text" name="email" maxlength="80" size="30">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<label for="comments"><b>Comments*</b></label>
</td>
<td valign="top">
<textarea name="comments" maxlength="1000" cols="25" rows="6"></textarea>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center">
<br><br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
And here is the code from the php file:
<?php
if(isset($_POST['email'])) {
// CHANGE THE TWO LINES BELOW
$email_to = "myemail";
$email_subject = "Reporting and issue";
function died($error) {
// your error code can go here
echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";
echo $error."<br /><br />";
echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br /><br />";
die();
}
// validation expected data exists
if(!isset($_POST['first_name']) ||
!isset($_POST['last_name']) ||
!isset($_POST['email']) ||
!isset($_POST['comments'])) {
died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');
}
$first_name = $_POST['first_name']; // required
$last_name = $_POST['last_name']; // required
$email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
$comments = $_POST['comments']; // required
$error_message = "";
$email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+#[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';
if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) {
$error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
$string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/";
if(!preg_match($string_exp,$first_name)) {
$error_message .= 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
if(!preg_match($string_exp,$last_name)) {
$error_message .= 'The Last Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
if(strlen($comments) < 2) {
$error_message .= 'The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
died($error_message);
}
$email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";
function clean_string($string) {
$bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
}
$email_message .= "First Name: ".clean_string($first_name)."\n";
$email_message .= "Last Name: ".clean_string($last_name)."\n";
$email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
$email_message .= "Comments: ".clean_string($comments)."\n";
// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
#mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
?>
<!-- place your own success html below -->
Thank you for Reporting an issue. We will look into it and try to solve it as soon as possible.<br><br>
<?php
}
die();
?>

Answer 1

You need to check configuration, if your web-server is configured properly to route .php files request to PHP engine.
In this scenario it seems web-server might not be configured properly.
If you are using Apache as web-server, Make sure below 2 lines are un-commented in httpd.conf(apache config fle)
LoadModule phpX_module "d:/wamp/bin/php/phpXXX/php5apacheXX.dll"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
Where X means PHP version