I am testing Html form using post method and got this odd result:
I have two html pages on server apache (already installed php): post.html and target.html, and the code for these page are followings:
post.html (don't worry about the html standard)
<div style="text-align: center">
<form method="POST" action="target.html">
<input type="text" name="testname" value="sometext" />
<input type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>
</div>
and target.html
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Target page</h1>
</body>
</html>
When I entered data to the form on post.html page and hit submit button, I got to the target.html page. When on this page(target.html), I refreshed the page, and what I receive is a blank page. The second time I refreshed, It turned to normal Html page.
I don't know why it returned a blank page the first time I refreshed, I have tried the same approach but with PHP page, and the content of target page (assum name target.php) still remains (not blank like html files above)
So, could you explain me about this problem?
Thank you.
This definitely has something to do with your browser. Same here on a mac using Safari, on some pages after submitting the content, the page seems to freeze, I refresh it, and then it works again.
Definitely not a code problem, as far as I'm concerned.
It's because you cannot pass an input from html to html file. Your target.html should be a php file (target.php).
and try to put this code on your target.php
<?php
var_dump($_POST); //this will show the inputted text and also show the data type and will stop the code execution here. other codes below will not be executed.
echo $_POST['testname'];
?>
Additionally, change target.html to target.php in your form action
First I will start out by correcting your post.html
<div style="text-align: center;"> <!-- added a ; after center -->
<form method="POST" action="target.html">
<input type="text" name="testname" value="sometext" />
<input type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>
</div>
that may not matter but you should end all your styles with ;
To continue, everything looks fine. maybe something weird happened between refreshes.
save your form page in php than add the php script in the same page, here try this. remember save in .php.
<?php $testname = $_Post['testname'];
echo $testname ?>
<div style="text-align: center">
<form method="POST" action="">
<input type="text" name="testname" value="sometext" />
<input type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>
</div>
Related
I have a page that has multiple php forms that send me different informations depending on the user and the form. How do I make php differentiat these? I saw something about the actions and I thought maybe it was like having a separate file, but when I created a "questions.php" and copied and pasted my php code into that and then added "action="questions.php"" to the tag, and ran it just as I had before it didn't work. So what is the correct way to do this?
My code is extremely long and filled with words which is why it would be nice to have separate files for it depending on the form instead of all in the top of my main page.
You could build one page as a standard page. in this page you could include the different forms. See the example below:
<!-- These are just example names -->
<div class="form-1">
<?php include "forms/form-1.php"; ?>
</div>
<div class="form-2">
<?php include "forms/form-2.php"; ?>
</div>
<div class="form-1">
<?php include "forms/form-3.php"; ?>
</div>
If you would like to save data that a user puts in a form in lets say a database you should use the <form method="post"> by adding an action to it. You're asking the form to send the user to another page when the submit button is clicked. an example of a form down below.
<form class="form-1" method="post" action="second_page.php">
<label>Name:
<input type="text" class="input" name="name">
</label>
<label>Email:
<input type="email" class="input" name="email">
</label>
<button type="submit">Send!</button>
</form>
Hope this helps!
I just added a / before the questions.php. apparently it had to do with file path? I don't understand it but it works now.
<form action="questions.php" method="post">
<!-- text boxes to get user inputs-->
<button type="submit" value="submit_btn">click here to go to page in action tag
</button>
</form>
If questions.php file is in same folder action="questions.php" is enough. If its inside 'x' folder, correct path should be given as action="x/questions.php"
I have a database with some numbers assigned to a fake account (PHP).
I try to contact the database (with success) and get the right result from the form.
My issue is that the form result open a new page and display there...
I would really like the result to be displayed IN the module I use to send the form OR anywhere else on the same page I used to send the form.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<form
method="post"
action="http://ggdbase.dx.am/impulseGetInfo.php"
target="_self">
Account name:<br>
<input type="text" name="name" value="derps">
<br>
<input type="submit" value="Click To Load Account Info">
</form>
</body>
</html>
This is what the module look like (on Enjin.com)
This is what I get when clicking the button
I did try replacing '_self' with '_blank' or parent and all the other options I could find but none of them gave me a different result :S
Could it be caused by the Enjin system itself ?
Do not use target. And replace the action as
action=""
This will ensure that you are calling the same page. Write the PHP code there itself.
Hope that help!
I have a link on a website when it's clicked it will load a form in a div. The form is processed by a PHP script. I need the output from the PHP script to appear in that div. Any idea how to do this? Thanks
File header.php
<html>
<head>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#mylink').click(function(){
$('#content').load("form.php");
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<li>Add Account</li>
file index.php
<?php
include_once 'header.php';
?>
<div id="content"></div>
in form.php
<form id= method="POST" action="script.php">
......
........
<input type="submit" value="Add account" />
</form>
in script.php
i need to send error message or thank you note in div #content
Ajax may help you. It's easy to do so. Try it.
First, this sounds like a job that JavaScript would be perfect for. But if you want to go old school, once you submit your form, depending if you set it to be method="post" or method="get" in the form tag, you can access it with php in the receiving script with $_GET or $_POST.
example:
html:
<form action="yourScript.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="location" />
php (file: yourScript.php): echo $_POST['location'];
what I am trying to do is to create a from, and execute a php script after the submit has been pressed. the problem seems to be that the page of wprdpress with the form and the code gets executed all at once.
If I put the code below into a regular test.php file on my server, it does what it is supposed to do (echo "Form Submitted!") after I click submit. However if I put the same code in a page template or a wp page it spits it out all at once (the form, and the "form submitted).
<html>
<head>
<title>Notify on Submit</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="POST">
<label>Name: <input type="text" name="name" /></label>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
<?php if (count($_POST)>0) echo "Form Submitted!"; ?>
</body>
</html>
I have no idea why this is like that, and would really need some help on this.
What I have also done is to create two different wp pages(one goes to the other). It works, but will create a bit of a mess. I would like to do this in one page.
page 1
<form action="page2" method="POST">
Your form input.
<input type="submit" name="submit" />
</form>
Page 2
<?php
if (count($_POST)>0)
{
echo "Form Submitted!";
unset($_POST);
$_POST = array();
}
else echo "Form has been reset!";
?>
Probably there is another form on the Wordpress page using the POST method. Instead of checking for $_POST > 0 (which will only tell you that something was posted) add some identifier to your form, and check for that so you can tell if your form was posted.
A simple way to do this is with a hidden input:
<html>
<head>
<title>Notify on Submit</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="POST">
<label>Name: <input type="text" name="name" /></label>
<input type="hidden" name="whatform" value="myform" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
<?php if (isset($_POST['whatform']) && $_POST['whatform'] == 'myform') echo "My Form Submitted!"; ?>
</body>
</html>
I think you just need to remove the php from your action. The action defaults to the current url on any form.
PHP_SELF refers to the file path - thats why it works when you do it on just a solo file. As part of the wordpress application, you can't run files directly - you have to reach that url.
Remember that WP uses actions and hooks, and so if you put code "in a WP page" or "in a template" it may fire at various times. You might get an echo statement that fires something to the screen before the content comes out. Consider putting all your output within filters, actions and hooks.
Your logic seems to depend on the post count. Consider using a unique name, i.e. the name of the submit button on your form. Check for if(isset($_POST['my-unique-submit-button'])). Is anything else in WP submitting via post? You might not know!
What I want to achieve is the following. A search is made from one IFrame "the form is loaded into this frame via the src atribute of iframe" the search query is then passed to another IFrame that redirects to a url with the query eg. www.test.com/index.php?query=test
Is this possible?
Currently my code looks as such
<iframe src="abc.php" name="iframe1">
</iframe>
<iframe name="iframe2">
<?php
var_dump($_GET);
?>
</iframe>
abc.php contains the following
<form method="get" action="#" target="iframe2">
<input type="text" name="searchtype" id="searchtype" />
<input type="submit" value="submit">
</form>
Untested (don't have PHP installed on this machine).
You are passing your submission form back to itself, and loading the result into iframe2, which is why you just see that form again in the other frame. So what you need to do is put your form processing logic into a second .php file, instead of inside your iframe tags, and then have the form's action be abcd.php (or whatever) and keep the target as iframe2.
Try this.
<form method="get" action="<?php $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>" target="iframe2">
<input type="text" name="searchtype" id="searchtype" />
<input type="submit" value="submit">
</form>