help a noob!

[marco423]

Ok im a noob at this im not going to lie. My senior project is to create a very primitive social networking website. Im in way over my head but ill be fine. But my first problem is when i have an html file linked to a php file, only the stuff coded in html will show up thats on the php file. Am i doing something wrong or is this just not possible. Any help will be greatly appreciated:)

[Jax2]

Can you be a bit more specific? Give an example?

 

[marco423]

i a php file, it links to an html file, everything appears as it should. Then i have a link from the html back to a php file. No php code will show up, only html coding will show up

[Jax2]

Unless I am mistaken (and someone please point out if I am), .html files are not parsed for PHP code unless you specifically tell your server to do so in your .htaccess file.

 

In other words, it doesn't recognize the php code. The opposite, however, is not true - html code can be used inside .php files, so why not just make them all .php's?

 

[marco423]

ok i changed them all to .php, im using html code though to link to the php file. when i run the regular php file, everything shows up like it is supposed to. but when i click the link only html code shows up

[marco423]

ok i figured out that for some reason my code is not passing the stuff right? heres my code for my sign up page:

 

<form  action="yo.php" method="post" >

First Name: <input type="text" name="fname" /></br>

Last Name: <input type="text" name="lname" /></br>

Age: <input type="text" name="age" /></br>

Email: <input type="text" name="email" /></br>

Username: <input type="text" name="userName"/></br>

Password: <input type="text" name="password"/></br>

<INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Sign me Up!">

 

 

and my code for yo.php:

<?php

print $_POST["fname"];

print $_POST["age"];

?>

 

 

[teamatomic]

Nothing wrong with your code. If you were to put it all in a page named yo.php it would print out the fname and age. What error are you getting?

 

 

HTH

Teamatomic

[marco423]

for some reason when i click submit a download box comes up and asks to save or open. is this supposed to happen?

[teamatomic]

Put this in a page by itself and call it in your browser:

<?php
echo "hello";
?>

 

What happens?

 

 

HTH

Teamatomic

[marco423]

if i put that in, it simply prints out hello

[oni-kun]

Try this, And make sure the method is correctly named as so:

<form  action="yo.php" method="POST" >
  First Name: <input type="text" name="fname" /></br>
  Last Name: <input type="text" name="lname" /></br>
  Age: <input type="text" name="age" /></br>
  Email: <input type="text" name="email" /></br>
  Username: <input type="text" name="userName"/></br>
  Password: <input type="text" name="password"/></br>
  <input type="submit" value="Sign me Up!">
</form>

 

yo.php:

<?php
  //Print all $_POST elements
  foreach ($_POST as $array) {
     print $array . "<br/>\n";
  }
?>

 

This should work fine and work for debugging, Just read up on PHP tutorials if you want to learn the basics of PHP forms, it doesn't seem like you know all that much so far.