[SOLVED] help with a simple form

[CyberShot]

I have a simple form

 

<label for="username" name="username">Username or email</label>
        <input id="username" name="username" value="" title="username" class="required" tabindex="4" type="text">
        </p>
        <p>
          <label for="password" name="password">Password</label>
          <input id="password" name="password" value="" title="password" class="required" tabindex="5" type="password">
        </p>
        <p class="clear"></p>
        <a href="change_password.php" class="forgot" id="resend_password_link">Forgot your password?</a>
        <p class="remember">
          <input id="submit" value="Sign in" tabindex="6" name="submit" type="submit">
          <input id="cancel_submit" value="Cancel" tabindex="7" type="button">
[/code

the action is set for includes/handle_form.php and in the handle form, I am just trying to test that I can get the username and password and then echo out the results. Am I doing it wrong?

[code]
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
$name = $_POST['username'];
$pass = $_POST['password'];

echo "$name ."". $pass";
}

[mikesta707]

i dont see any form tags. you have to wrap input and other form tags with <form></form> tags, like so

<form method="post" >
<label for="username" name="username">Username or email</label>
        <input id="username" name="username" value="" title="username" class="required" tabindex="4" type="text">
        </p>
        <p>
          <label for="password" name="password">Password</label>
          <input id="password" name="password" value="" title="password" class="required" tabindex="5" type="password">
        </p>
        <p class="clear"></p>
        <a href="change_password.php" class="forgot" id="resend_password_link">Forgot your password?</a>
        <p class="remember">
          <input id="submit" value="Sign in" tabindex="6" name="submit" type="submit">
          <input id="cancel_submit" value="Cancel" tabindex="7" type="button">
</form>

[CyberShot]

Yea, I got all that, I just posted the essential stuff so that you wouldn't have to look through all of it.

[mikesta707]

Hmm, ok well everything looks fine to me. what exactly happens when you try this. Blank page? try print_r-ing $_POST, and see if the values you expect to be in there are

[CyberShot]

nothing happens when I push the button. the password box just sits there like I never pushed the button. What's the best way to send the user to a new page if the button is pushed?

[mikesta707]

um, you use a submit button to do that. but it appears as if you already have to submit button. post your whole form's code, but im going to sleep soon so if you don't have this solved by tommorow I can take a look at it again

[CyberShot]

<fieldset id="signin_menu">
      <span class="message">Please verify your account before continue</span>
      <form method="post" id="signin" action="handle_form.php">
        <label for="username" name="username">Username or email</label>
        <input id="username" name="username" value="" title="username" class="required" tabindex="4" type="text">
        </p>
        <p>
          <label for="password" name="password">Password</label>
          <input id="password" name="password" value="" title="password" class="required" tabindex="5" type="password">
        </p>
        <p class="clear"></p>
        <a href="change_password.php" class="forgot" id="resend_password_link">Forgot your password?</a>
        <p class="remember">
          <input id="submit" value="Sign in" tabindex="6" name="submit" type="submit">
          <input id="cancel_submit" value="Cancel" tabindex="7" type="button">
        </p>
      </form>
      </fieldset>

 

that is all the code. I have the doctype in the header.php with an include in the top of the index. with the form. then the footer.php included also. I have the php code for the form in the handle_form.php

 

a simple test was all I was trying to do to make sure it was working. Then I was going to try to learn how to do the rest of the validation as the days go on.

[CyberShot]

I packaged up the whole thing. You can download it here

 

http://www.photobyiris.com/login.zip

 

I stripped out all the javascript and the code started working. as it is, the php don't work, but If I remove everything but the form code, the php starts working. Thanks for your help.

[mrMarcus]

// I dont want this form be submitted
$("form#signin").submit(function() {
     return false;
});

 

this comment i found in your code pretty much explains your problem.

 

remove it or just change false to true;

[CyberShot]

well, I deleted that bit of code becuase it doesn't really need to be there. The submit buttons works now but I still can not get anything out of the php code. I tried just a simple one

 

<?php 

if(isset($_POST['submit'])){


header('location: newpage.php');

}
?>

 

it just throws a # sign onto the end of the address

[CyberShot]

well, now it's working. Not sure what I did, but I am getting the page I need. Thanks for the help guys