POST isnt working

[kendallkamikaze]

Fairly simple code, yet the post isnt working. Everything but the DOB part is working.

 

Code goes from this page:

<TR><td class='tablegreen' rowspan='2'>Points/Price/Gender/Age</td></tr>
<tr><td class='tabletd'><center><BR>
<font size='2pt'><I> You must fill out all areas! </font> </I><BR><form action="horse_searchage.php" method="post"> 
Gender: <select name="Gender"> <option>Mare</option> <option>Stallion</option> <option>Gelding</option> </select> <br>
Price Less Than: <input type="text" name="price"> <br>
Points Greater Than: <input type="text" name="Points"><BR>
Age Less Than: <input type="text" name="DOB"><BR>
<input type="submit" value="View Horses for Sale"> </form></font></td></tr>

 

To this page

 

<?php

include 'header.php';

?>

<h2> Results of Your Search: </h2>
<TABLE BORDER='0' WIDTH='740' CELLSPACING='2' CELLPADDING='1'>
<font-face='verdana' size='1'>
        <tbody>
<TR>
<td bgcolor='CBEC74' width='300' ALIGN='CENTER'><font size='2pt'><B> Horses Name </b></font></td>
<td bgcolor='CBEC74' width='300' ALIGN='CENTER'><font size='2pt'><B> Breed</b></font></td>
<td bgcolor='CBEC74' width='70' ALIGN='CENTER'><font size='2pt'><B>Points</b></font></td>
<td bgcolor='CBEC74' width='70' ALIGN='CENTER'><font size='2pt'> <B>Age</B></font></td>
<td bgcolor='CBEC74' width='70' ALIGN='CENTER'><font size='2pt'><B>Owner</b></font></td></tr>


<?php

$Gender=$_POST['Gender'];
$Points=$_POST['Points'];
$DOB=$_POST['DOB'];
$price=$_POST['price'];

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM horsedata WHERE Gender='$Gender' and price > $price and Points > $Points AND DOB < $DOB order by Points desc");
$color1 = 'D9D9C7'; 	// Set Color 1
$color2 = 'EFEFE3';		// Set Color 2
$i = 0;					// Start at 0 almost always
while($r=mysql_fetch_array($result)){	
$color = ($i%2) ? $color1 : $color2;	// Choose a color by doing some math
$id=$r["id"];
$Name=$r["Name"];
$Owner=$r["Owner"];
$Breed=$r["Breed"];
$DOB=$r["DOB"];
$Exp=$r["Exp"];
$Gender=$r["Gender"];
$Points=$r["Points"];
$Height=$r["Height"];
$Registrations=$r["Registrations"];
$Records=$r["Records"];
$Speed=$r["Speed"];
$Scope=$r["Scope"];
$Endurance=$r["Endurance"];
$Power=$r["Power"];
$Obedience=$r["Obedience"];
$Sociability=$r["Sociability"];
$Intelligence=$r["Intelligence"];
$Sire=$r["Sire"];
$Dam=$r["Dam"];
$Foals=$r["Foals"];
$Awards=$r["Awards"];
$price=$r["price"];
$Image=$r["Image"];
  
  
   
   //display the row
   echo "
<TR>
<td bgcolor='$color' width='300' ALIGN='CENTER'><font size='2pt'> <a href='horse_individual.php?id=$id'>$Name</a></td>
<td bgcolor='$color' width='300' ALIGN='CENTER'><font size='2pt'> $Breed</font></td>
<td bgcolor='$color' width='70' ALIGN='CENTER'><font size='2pt'> $Points</font></td>
<td bgcolor='$color' width='70' ALIGN='CENTER'><font size='2pt'> $DOB</font></td>
<td bgcolor='$color' width='70' ALIGN='CENTER'><font size='2pt'> $price</font></td>
<td bgcolor='$color' width='70' ALIGN='CENTER'><font size='2pt'> <a href='player_individual.php?id=$Owner'>$Owner</a></font></td>
	</tr>";
$i++; 	// Increase $i by one
}
?>

</table> 

<br><br>



<?php

include 'footer.php';

?>

[Maq]

Hmm, looks fine to me, are you echoing it out to see where it gets lost?

[Zhadus]

Is it not transferring to the page as a POST or you're not getting a result from the query? Echo out the contents of $_POST['DOB'] before you run the query and see the value it's holding. If that's fine, separate the query string from the query itself and echo the string to the screen and make sure it looks correct.

[kendallkamikaze]

Is it not transferring to the page as a POST or you're not getting a result from the query? Echo out the contents of $_POST['DOB'] before you run the query and see the value it's holding. If that's fine, separate the query string from the query itself and echo the string to the screen and make sure it looks correct.

 

I'm very new at php and i dont know how to echo things out to test :/

[Maq]

echo $DOB;

[Zhadus]

Here is a bit more thorough example of what I was trying to explain. I've taken a segment of your code and added the bits that I'd recommend running and that should help you find out the issue:

 

<?php

$Gender=$_POST['Gender'];
$Points=$_POST['Points'];
$DOB=$_POST['DOB'];
$price=$_POST['price'];
echo "DOB: $DOB <br />";
$query = "SELECT * FROM horsedata WHERE Gender='$Gender' and price > $price and Points > $Points AND DOB < $DOB order by Points desc";
echo "Query: $query <br />";
$result = mysql_query($query);
$color1 = 'D9D9C7'; 	// Set Color 1
$color2 = 'EFEFE3';		// Set Color 2
$i = 0;			// Start at 0 almost always
while($r=mysql_fetch_array($result)){
?>

 

You'll notice I've separate your query into a query and a query string. This way we can make sure that PHP is reading it correctly and passing the right variables into the query.

 

It should output:

DOB: <dob value>

Query: <query string>

 

Make sure that those two lines are exactly what you expect the values to have.