amy.damnit Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 Hi all! Well, after a 7 month sabbatical, I'm back to trying to learn PHP. Unfortunately, one of my first real PHP programs won't even run?! What a horrible way to get started. I'm using Larry Ullman's "PHP for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition". He has a simple form that you fill out (i.e. "feedback.html") which is then supposed to launch a simple screen (i.e. "handle_form.php") printing what was entered. When I click on the "Send My Feedback" button, I get this... "; ?> Here are my two files... feedback.html <!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>Feedback Form</title> </head> <body> Please complete this form to sumbit your feedback: <br /> <!-- Added Form Attribute: method="post" --> <form action="handle_form.php" method="post"> Mr. <input type="radio" name="title" value="Mr." /> Mrs. <input type="radio" name="title" value="Mrs." /> Ms. <input type="radio" name="title" value="Ms."> <br /> Name: <input type="text" name="name" size="20" /> <br /> Email Address: <input type="text" name="email" size="20" /> <br /> Response: <select name="response"> <option value="excellent">This is excellent.</option> <option value="okay">This is okay.</option> <option value="boring">This is boring.</option> </select> <br /> Comments: <textarea name="comments" rows="3" cols="30"></textarea> <br /> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send My Feedback" /> </form> </body> </html> handle_form.php <!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>Your Feedback</title> </head> <body> <?php // This page receives data from the Feedback Form // It will receive: Title, Name, Email, Response, Comments, and Submit print "Thank you {$_POST['title']} {$_POST['name']} for your comments. <br />"; ?> </body> </html> The whole point of this exercise in the book was to show you how to work with Displaying Errors (i.e. 'display_errors=on' ), Error Reporting (e.g. 'error_reporting (E_ALL)' ) and The Register Globals Problem. I was originally doing this in NetBeans 6.5, but when I couldn't get anything working, I dumped each file in my Web Root Directory and just started using TextEdit, but to no avail?! I also played around substantially with my php.ini file, and I honestly could see where turning register_globals from "Off" to "On" solved anything?! He was showing how something like: print "Thank you $title $name for your comments. <br />"; worked when register_globals=On, but how you needed: print "Thank you {$_POST['title']} {$_POST['name']} for your comments. <br />"; when register_globals = Off I am soooo frustrated right now. I can't believe something so simple is so difficult for me to undestand and get working?! Any help would be appreciated! Sincerely, Amy Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/157295-help-with-first-program/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken2k7 Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 It looks fine to me. Not sure if you messed up something in php.ini that could have caused that. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/157295-help-with-first-program/#findComment-829070 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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