How do I stop this form from going blank after I press submit?

[perthmetro]

As it is now when I click on submit the form goes blank and the form page is renamed from whatever.php to whatever.php#

 

I have no php knowledge whatsoever, A friend made this for me and now he's gone on holidays - thanks for your help, the script is for a  cms for a stylesheet - i'll post the whole script if i can fix this prob. -cheers Pete

 

How can I

1. stop the form from going blank

2. keep the values I have previously submitted (they get written to a text file) in the form

 

here is the form

 

<?php
//SITE BACKGROUND
$bg = $_POST['bg'];
//HEADER BORDER
$hdrbdr = $_POST['hdrbdr'];
//HEADER BACKGROUND
$hdrbg = $_POST['hdrbg'];

//HTML CODE - THIS IS THE CODE FOR THE HTML PAGE
$html = file_get_contents("html.txt");
//IF FORM IS SUBMITED
if($_POST) {


$fp = fopen('bg.txt', 'w+');
fwrite($fp, $bg);
fclose($fp);
$fp = fopen('hdrbdr.txt', 'w+');
fwrite($fp, $hdrbdr);
fclose($fp);
$fp = fopen('hdrbg.txt', 'w+');
fwrite($fp, $hdrbg);
fclose($fp);
} else
echo ($html);
?> 

[Jabop]

What is trying to be done here...

[perthmetro]

Everything works fine except the problem I wrote above.

 

The script simply gets the input values and writes them to their respective text files

 

i then use the text files for other stuff

[perthmetro]

I was thinking the # that gets appended to the filename may have something to do with it?

 

Could that be the problem, if so how do i fix it?

 

Thanks.

 

Pete

[perthmetro]

whoops sorry... here is the form...

 

<form id="colors" name="colors" method="post" action="#"> 
<p>site background: <input name="bg" type ="text" id="bg" /></p>
<p>header border: <input name="hdrbdr" type ="text" id="hdrbdr" /></p>
<p>header background: <input name="hdrbg" type ="text" id="hdrbg" /></p>
<p><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" /></p>
</form>

 

I deleted the # in the --- action="#" --- but it made no difference

[perthmetro]

Any one got any clues to this  - it's all that's holding me back at the moment

[timmah1]

Have you tried echoing the POST statement back to the field?

 

site background: <input name="bg" type ="text" id="bg"  value="<?php echo $_POST['bg']; ?>"/>

[xyn]

<form id="colors" name="colors" method="post" action=""> 
<p>site background: <input name="bg" type="text" value="<?=$_POST['bg']?>" id="bg" /></p>
<p>header border: <input name="hdrbdr" type="text" value="<?=$_POST['hdrbdr']?>"  id="hdrbdr" /></p>
<p>header background: <input name="hdrbg" type="text" value="<?=$_POST['hdrbg']?>" id="hdrbg" /></p>
<p><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" /></p>
</form>

[perthmetro]

didn't do a thing sorry - just found out another problem though... when I refresh the form all the fields become blank which then inturn makes all the text files go blank if I hit submit!

 

I need the form to be repopulated by the existing values each time it loads otherwise I'll have to retype in all the values each time

[xyn]

show all your code?

[timmah1]

You need to open up the appropriate text file, and populate the fields with the data from the text files, before showing the form.

[timmah1]

Then your form fields would be like this

<input name="bg" type ="text" id="bg"  value="<?php echo $bg; ?>"/>
[/code

[xyn]

Ok, my advice is create a page for just your form...

 

my_form.php

<form id="colors" name="colors" method="post" action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>"> 
<p>site background: <input name="bg" type="text" value="<?=$_POST['bg']?>" id="bg" /></p>
<p>header border: <input name="hdrbdr" type="text" value="<?=$_POST['hdrbdr']?>"  id="hdrbdr" /></p>
<p>header background: <input name="hdrbg" type="text" value="<?=$_POST['hdrbg']?>" id="hdrbg" /></p>
<p><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" /></p>
</form>

 

my_php.php

<?php
if(!$_POST['Submit'])
   include_once 'my_form.php';
else{
   include_once 'my_form.php'; # your form
   print '<p>Text Here, below form.';
}
?>

[perthmetro]

can i email you the zip files it's too big to post here

[perthmetro]

here are all the files on display...

 

http://snipplr.com/view/6931/dynamic-stylesheet/

[perthmetro]

hi xyn,

 

I'm not quite sure how the my.php fits in my situation?

[perthmetro]

All the files can be downloaded here...

 

http://www.box.net/shared/70x4nlzaco

[perthmetro]

I've put a working example of this script here if anyone wants to try it..

 

 

The example is at http://www.perthmetro.net/cms4css/

 

the form to input your colours is at http://www.perthmetro.net/cms4css/values.php

 

unfortunately the colours disappear as each time it is reloaded the text files get over written with a null/blank value.

 

@xyn... i tried your way but i'm a bit/totally confused about how to go about to implement it.... the form is named html.txt for some reason?

 

thanks for your help

Pete

 

 

[Lodius2000]

seems like you need an <input type="hidden" name="_submit_check" value="1" /> then change your if ($_POST){ to read if ($_POST['_submit_check']) {

 

that should retain values that you have entered if there is a after submission, if there is some sort of an error you wont have to retype all the fields, it will remeber them.  BUT the first time you load the page all the fields will be blank

 

WARNING: untested code, but its basically what I do adapted to your style