reticulatus Posted November 9, 2009 Share Posted November 9, 2009 I may aswell give you the whole run down as it isnt very long...... Ok, so i have my own website which i have managed to scrape together using basic html and a touch of Java. I decided i needed to add a few forms though. The way i have learned anything to do with the web so far is to deconstruct what ever i like on a web site using the "view source" button and then reconstruct it to what i need. The first went pretty well, it's a basic one page photo submission form: http://www.reticulatedpython.info/content/information/photosubmission.html Then i did an email request one: http://www.reticulatedpython.info/content/index2.html Then it came to the more complex one which requires several "pages". The idea is to register an animal, and depending on the parentage be able to give varying information about the animal. The end of the form should result in 3 photos being uploaded to my server and the form details added to a file, along with an email sent to me to say info had been added. This is what i've come up with for the form itself: http://www.reticulatedpython.info/forms/registry/form1.html (That directory also holds processor.php) However, it isnt working right and i havent got a clue why or where to look to fix it. I know i'm in well over my head but i would appreciate some help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joel24 Posted November 9, 2009 Share Posted November 9, 2009 could you post the contents of "processor.php"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reticulatus Posted November 10, 2009 Author Share Posted November 10, 2009 I know the code isnt right here because i changed a drop down to a check box and havent gotten to editing this yet. <?php $where_form_is="http://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].strrev(strstr(strrev($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']),"/")); // Checkbox handling $field_5_opts = $_POST['field_5'][0].",". $_POST['field_5'][1].",". $_POST['field_5'][2]; // Checkbox handling $field_11_opts = $_POST['field_11'][0].",". $_POST['field_11'][1]; // Checkbox handling $field_13_opts = $_POST['field_13'][0].",". $_POST['field_13'][1]; // File upload handling if($_FILES['field_15']['name']!=''){ $field_15_filename = "file_15_".date("sihdmY").substr($_FILES['field_15']['name'],strlen($_FILES['field_15']['name'])-4); if(!move_uploaded_file($_FILES['field_15']['tmp_name'], "./files/".$field_15_filename)){ die("File " . $_FILES['field_15']['name'] . " was not uploaded."); } } // File upload handling if($_FILES['field_16']['name']!=''){ $field_16_filename = "file_16_".date("sihdmY").substr($_FILES['field_16']['name'],strlen($_FILES['field_16']['name'])-4); if(!move_uploaded_file($_FILES['field_16']['tmp_name'], "./files/".$field_16_filename)){ die("File " . $_FILES['field_16']['name'] . " was not uploaded."); } } // File upload handling if($_FILES['field_17']['name']!=''){ $field_17_filename = "file_17_".date("sihdmY").substr($_FILES['field_17']['name'],strlen($_FILES['field_17']['name'])-4); if(!move_uploaded_file($_FILES['field_17']['tmp_name'], "./files/".$field_17_filename)){ die("File " . $_FILES['field_17']['name'] . " was not uploaded."); } } // Checkbox handling $field_22_opts = $_POST['field_22'][0].",". $_POST['field_22'][1]; // Checkbox handling $field_25_opts = $_POST['field_25'][0].",". $_POST['field_25'][1]; // File upload handling if($_FILES['field_27']['name']!=''){ $field_27_filename = "file_27_".date("sihdmY").substr($_FILES['field_27']['name'],strlen($_FILES['field_27']['name'])-4); if(!move_uploaded_file($_FILES['field_27']['tmp_name'], "./files/".$field_27_filename)){ die("File " . $_FILES['field_27']['name'] . " was not uploaded."); } } // File upload handling if($_FILES['field_28']['name']!=''){ $field_28_filename = "file_28_".date("sihdmY").substr($_FILES['field_28']['name'],strlen($_FILES['field_28']['name'])-4); if(!move_uploaded_file($_FILES['field_28']['tmp_name'], "./files/".$field_28_filename)){ die("File " . $_FILES['field_28']['name'] . " was not uploaded."); } } // File upload handling if($_FILES['field_29']['name']!=''){ $field_29_filename = "file_29_".date("sihdmY").substr($_FILES['field_29']['name'],strlen($_FILES['field_29']['name'])-4); if(!move_uploaded_file($_FILES['field_29']['tmp_name'], "./files/".$field_29_filename)){ die("File " . $_FILES['field_29']['name'] . " was not uploaded."); } } // Checkbox handling $field_31_opts = $_POST['field_31'][0].",". $_POST['field_31'][1]; // Checkbox handling $field_34_opts = $_POST['field_34'][0].",". $_POST['field_34'][1]; // File upload handling if($_FILES['field_36']['name']!=''){ $field_36_filename = "file_36_".date("sihdmY").substr($_FILES['field_36']['name'],strlen($_FILES['field_36']['name'])-4); if(!move_uploaded_file($_FILES['field_36']['tmp_name'], "./files/".$field_36_filename)){ die("File " . $_FILES['field_36']['name'] . " was not uploaded."); } } // File upload handling if($_FILES['field_37']['name']!=''){ $field_37_filename = "file_37_".date("sihdmY").substr($_FILES['field_37']['name'],strlen($_FILES['field_37']['name'])-4); if(!move_uploaded_file($_FILES['field_37']['tmp_name'], "./files/".$field_37_filename)){ die("File " . $_FILES['field_37']['name'] . " was not uploaded."); } } // File upload handling if($_FILES['field_38']['name']!=''){ $field_38_filename = "file_38_".date("sihdmY").substr($_FILES['field_38']['name'],strlen($_FILES['field_38']['name'])-4); if(!move_uploaded_file($_FILES['field_38']['tmp_name'], "./files/".$field_38_filename)){ die("File " . $_FILES['field_38']['name'] . " was not uploaded."); } } // Checkbox handling $field_40_opts = $_POST['field_40'][0].",". $_POST['field_40'][1]; // Checkbox handling $field_43_opts = $_POST['field_43'][0]; // File upload handling if($_FILES['field_45']['name']!=''){ $field_45_filename = "file_45_".date("sihdmY").substr($_FILES['field_45']['name'],strlen($_FILES['field_45']['name'])-4); if(!move_uploaded_file($_FILES['field_45']['tmp_name'], "./files/".$field_45_filename)){ die("File " . $_FILES['field_45']['name'] . " was not uploaded."); } } // File upload handling if($_FILES['field_46']['name']!=''){ $field_46_filename = "file_46_".date("sihdmY").substr($_FILES['field_46']['name'],strlen($_FILES['field_46']['name'])-4); if(!move_uploaded_file($_FILES['field_46']['tmp_name'], "./files/".$field_46_filename)){ die("File " . $_FILES['field_46']['name'] . " was not uploaded."); } } // File upload handling if($_FILES['field_47']['name']!=''){ $field_47_filename = "file_47_".date("sihdmY").substr($_FILES['field_47']['name'],strlen($_FILES['field_47']['name'])-4); if(!move_uploaded_file($_FILES['field_47']['tmp_name'], "./files/".$field_47_filename)){ die("File " . $_FILES['field_47']['name'] . " was not uploaded."); } } $fileLine = "Title: " . $_POST['field_1'] . " Country: " . $_POST['field_2'] . " Email: " . $_POST['field_3'] . " Forum ID: " . $_POST['field_4'] . " Snake origin: $field_5_opts FirstName: " . $_POST['field_6'] . " Mother: " . $_POST['field_7'] . " Father: " . $_POST['field_8'] . " Arrival Date: " . $_POST['field_9'] . " Date of birth: " . $_POST['field_10'] . " Sex: $field_11_opts Age: " . $_POST['field_12'] . " Available for breeding loan: $field_13_opts Distinguishing features: " . $_POST['field_14'] . " Head photo: " . $_POST['field_15'] . " Neck photo : " . $_POST['field_16'] . " Full body photo: " . $_POST['field_17'] . " Morph/Locality: " . $_POST['field_18'] . " referrer: " . $_POST['field_19'] . " Mothers morph/locality: " . $_POST['field_20'] . " Fathers morph/locality: " . $_POST['field_21'] . " Sex of snake to be added: $field_22_opts Age: " . $_POST['field_23'] . " Morph/Locality of snake to be added: " . $_POST['field_24'] . " Available for breeding loan: $field_25_opts Distinguishing features: " . $_POST['field_26'] . " Head photo: " . $_POST['field_27'] . " Neck photo: " . $_POST['field_28'] . " Full body photo: " . $_POST['field_29'] . " Mothers morph/locality: " . $_POST['field_30'] . " Sex of snake to be added: $field_31_opts Age: " . $_POST['field_32'] . " Morph/locality: " . $_POST['field_33'] . " Available for breeding loan: $field_34_opts Distinguishing features: " . $_POST['field_35'] . " Head photo: " . $_POST['field_36'] . " Neck photo: " . $_POST['field_37'] . " Full body photo: " . $_POST['field_38'] . " Fathers morph/locality: " . $_POST['field_39'] . " Sex of snake to be added: $field_40_opts Age: " . $_POST['field_41'] . " Morph/locality: " . $_POST['field_42'] . " Available for breeding loan: $field_43_opts Distinguishing features: " . $_POST['field_44'] . " Head photo: " . $_POST['field_45'] . " Neck photo: " . $_POST['field_46'] . " Full body photo: " . $_POST['field_47'] . " "; $filename = 'registry.txt'; if (is_writable($filename)) { if (!$handle = fopen($filename, 'a')) { echo "Cannot open file ($filename)"; exit; } if (fwrite($handle, $fileLine) === FALSE) { echo "Cannot write to file ($filename)"; exit; } fclose($handle); } else { echo "The file is not writable"; } include("confirm.html"); ?> My biggest concern is getting the actual form script to go to the right pages when the right options are selected. I think i can do the rest from there, i think..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joel24 Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 i'd definitely look into using a mysql database for this site hey, your codes just going to get harder if your pulling/deleting/updating records from .txt files and searching records etc etc. My biggest concern is getting the actual form script to go to the right pages when the right options are selected do you mean the form posts to different pages depending on the option selected... or the form always posts to processor.php which redirects the user to a page depending on options selected? if so what options?? you'd have to have a thing like switch ($_POST['pageOption']) { case 'Big Snake': header('location: bigsnake.html'); exit(); case 'Small Snake': header('location: smallsnake.html'); exit(); default: header('location: error.html'); exit(); } or you could do the same with if statements, but switch is better for this situation... http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.switch.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reticulatus Posted November 10, 2009 Author Share Posted November 10, 2009 Firstly, i gave you the wrong link, genius that i am I have attached a copy of the code behind the form i am trying to use to this post. Unfortunately my current hosting package doesnt allow for me to use Mysql so that's not an option. I only set it as a .txt file so i could easily identify it when i first started the script. As for the data held in the file (that the form adds), it is never going to be a massively popular feature so the content will never be more than i can handle using the "find" option in notepad for editing. Within form.php there are 6 elements - mainForm_1-mainForm_6 (i call each one a page, which may have confused things, sorry) What i wanted to do was have the user fill out mainForm_1 and depending on the options selected they would go to different mainForm elements after that, a process which would continue with each element selected until the end where the data was sent to the file. I tried to do this using the if statement but it wont work that way for some reason. [attachment deleted by admin] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorky Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 if you have php then you have a db. http://php.about.com/od/learnphp/qt/php_flat_file.htm although sql is popular and easy, it has security risks and is overkill for most of the applications its used for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizmola Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 if you have php then you have a db. http://php.about.com/od/learnphp/qt/php_flat_file.htm although sql is popular and easy, it has security risks and is overkill for most of the applications its used for. Care to explain how a flat file is a database, or what the inherent security issues that you are claiming are related to SQL are? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reticulatus Posted November 10, 2009 Author Share Posted November 10, 2009 Dorky, i'm not sure you understand me, so i'll try to make it a little clearer - My web host does not provide me with any Mysql databases, in my list of "accessories" it clearly states i am using 0 of 0 Mysql databases. Now i'm really lost Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizmola Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Firstly, i gave you the wrong link, genius that i am I have attached a copy of the code behind the form i am trying to use to this post. Unfortunately my current hosting package doesnt allow for me to use Mysql so that's not an option. I only set it as a .txt file so i could easily identify it when i first started the script. As for the data held in the file (that the form adds), it is never going to be a massively popular feature so the content will never be more than i can handle using the "find" option in notepad for editing. Within form.php there are 6 elements - mainForm_1-mainForm_6 (i call each one a page, which may have confused things, sorry) What i wanted to do was have the user fill out mainForm_1 and depending on the options selected they would go to different mainForm elements after that, a process which would continue with each element selected until the end where the data was sent to the file. I tried to do this using the if statement but it wont work that way for some reason. So, the first thing I wanted to state up front was that it does indeed sound like a database would be very beneficial to you. If you can't use mysql, you might be able to use an alternative like sqllite or even bdb (berkeley db). There's just a huge advantage to having structured data and indexed retrieval available to you. I'm not sure what you're paying, but I know of all sorts of $6/ month shared hosting companies that give you a full LAMP stack as well. So on to the bad news -- being that I perused your script, and quite frankly it already borders on spaghetti. Doing naming based on page numbers in a multi-form process is just asking for trouble -- what happens in the future when you realize that page 2 & 3 should be combined, page 5 eliminated, and page 7 updated? You will regret that I predict. I don't have the time or patience to go through and start rewriting code, but I think your best bet would be to begin by asking yourself why you are trying to make something so complicated. Is this really something that can't be done in one single form? Javascript is also very helpful for linking things together, especially if the interrelated choices are going to be static. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reticulatus Posted November 10, 2009 Author Share Posted November 10, 2009 Ok, so firstly, i was genuinely trying to make it easy, not complicated This could be done in a single form but lots of fields are a pain in the ass and scare people off, i wanted to make sure that only fields that were relevant were presented to people. I'm going to have a look at the other database suggestions you made, see what i can come up with. Thankyou all for your help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizmola Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 I understand you had the best intentions -- it's just that the approach you've taken thus far is already hard to read. It seems you have the basics, and you can certainly build upon it, although at present I'm not even sure I know what your current problem or bug is. I did take a look at your site, and if this is going to be a database of pythons, I don't know that the people who would fill that out are really going to be all that upset if they have a bunch of columns to fill out -- in fact, you may find that you piss people off more, by trying to hide a lenghty multi-form approach. At the end of the day, you will need to validate the input before you accept it, whether you have 5 interconnected forms or one big one. Just my 2 cents. If you have a specific question, I'd be glad to take a look at it, as would others. I think we lost the thread on what your exact problem is at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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