Why am I being returned to index.php?

tommybfisher · May 22, 2011

Hi,

I have a dynamic php page - index.php. In one section (called nav.php) is the user login input boxes (username and password). If the user navigates to the registration section, nav.php remains (including the login form) and the registration form is displayed in the main area.

I currently do not have the registration form linked with the MySql database yet as I am just testing. However, when the submit button is pressed on the registration form, it always returns the user to index.php. I have tried different settings in the form action page, even setting it to a new page entirely (I simply want it to send the form back to the same page).

Does anyone know why it is always sending me back to index.php? Is it because when the registration form is viewed by the user, there are two forms on display (login in the nav.php section and registration in regform.php)?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Tommy

My code is below.

The first snippet is the code for index.php:

<?php

// login check

include 'inc/functions.php';
//include 'inc/resources/init.php';

if (loggedin())
{
	header ("Location: loggedin.php");
	exit();
}

if(isset($_POST['login']) && !empty($_POST['login']))
{
	if ($_POST['login'])
	{
		// get data
		$email = $_POST['email'];
		$password = $_POST['password'];
		if(isset($_POST['rememberme']) && !empty($_POST['rememberme']))
			$rememberme = $_POST['rememberme'];

		if ($email && $password)
		{
			$login = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE email='$email'");
			while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($login))
			{
				$db_password = $row['password'];
				if (md5($password)==$db_password)
					$loginok=TRUE;
				else
					$loginok=FALSE;

				if ($loginok == TRUE)
				{

					if (isset($rememberme) && $rememberme == "on")
						setcookie("login",$email, time()+7200);
					else if (!isset($rememberme))
						$_SESSION['login']=$email;

					header ("Location: loggedin.php");
					exit();
				}
				else
					die("incorrect username/password");
			}
		}
	}
}
?>
<?php

// check for lang and set cookie

$exp = time() + 86400;

if(isset($_GET['lang']) && !empty($_GET['lang']))
	$lang = $_GET['lang'];

if(isset($_GET['newlang']) && !empty($_GET['newlang']))
	$newlang = $_GET['newlang'];

if (isset($newlang))
{
	if ($lang == "english")
	{
		setcookie ("lang","english", $exp);
		include "lang/english.php";
	}
	else
	{
		setcookie ("lang","suomi", $exp);
		include "lang/suomi.php";
	}
}
else
{	
	if (isset($_COOKIE["lang"]))
	{
		if ($_COOKIE["lang"] == 'english')
			{
			include "lang/english.php";
			}
		else	
			{
			include "lang/suomi.php";
			}
	}
	else
	{
		include "lang/suomi.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" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

<meta name="description" content="" />

<meta name="keywords" content="" />

<meta name="author" content="" />

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/makuboxicom/style.css" media="screen" />

<title></title>

</head>

<body>
    
	<div id="wrapper">        	
        
        	<?php include('inc/primary/header.php'); ?>
            
		<?php 
			if(isset($loginok) && !empty($loginok))
			{
				if ($loginok == TRUE)
					{
						include ('inc/login/lgnav.php');
					}
				else
					{
						include('inc/nav.php'); 
					}
			}
			else
				include('inc/nav.php'); 
		?>
            
            <?php
				if(isset($_GET['page']) && !empty($_GET['page']))
				{
					$page=$_GET['page'];
					if ($page)
					{
						if (
						!strpos($page,".")
						)
						{

						$path = "inc/".$page.".php";
							if (file_exists($path))
							{
								include ($path);	
							}
							else
							{
								echo "Page does not exist";
							}
						}
						else
							{
							echo "Not allowed";
							}
					}
					else
					{
						include ('inc/primary/mainbody.php');
					}
				}
				else
					include ('inc/primary/mainbody.php');
          		?>
            
            <?php include('inc/primary/footer.php'); ?>
            
	</div> 

</body>

</html>

Here is the code for nav.php:

<div id="nav">
  
    <div id="navbuttons">
        <a href='index.php?page=primary/mainbody'><?php echo $home ?></a> •
        <a href='index.php?page=primary/mainbodyinfo'><?php echo $info ?></a> •
        <a href='index.php?page=primary/mainbodyproducts'><?php echo $products ?></a> •
        <a href="index.php?page=primary/registration"><?php echo $register ?></a>
    </div> <!-- end #navbuttons -->
    
    <div id="inputlogin">
    	<form name="login" action="index.php" method="POST">
         email 
      
        		<input name="email" type="text" placeholder='email'/>
  
         <?php echo $passwordlbl ?> 

            	<input name="password" type="password" placeholder=<?php echo $passwordlbl ?>>

    </div> <!-- end #inputlogin-->
    
    <div id="tableremember">    
        <table>
            <tr>
                <td>
                	<?php echo $rememberme ?> <input name="rememberme" type="checkbox"/>   
                </td>
                <td>
               		<input name="login" type="submit" value="<?php echo $loginbtn ?>"/>
               	</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
            	<td>
                	<a href="">forgotten password</a>
                </td>
            </tr>
        </table>
        
       
    </div> <!-- end #tableremember -->
    
    <div id="langselect">
    	<a href="index.php?newlang=y&lang=suomi">Suomi</a><br />
        <a href="index.php?newlang=y&lang=english">English</a>
    </div> <!-- end #langselect -->
    
</div> <!-- end #nav -->

And this is the code for the registration form:

<?php

// form data

if(isset($_POST['submit']) && !empty($_POST['submit'])) 
	$rgsubmit = $_POST['submit'];
if(isset($_POST['firstname']) && !empty($_POST['firstname']))
	$rgfirstname = $_POST['firstname'];
if(isset($_POST['secondname']) && !empty($_POST['secondname']))
	$rgsecondname = $_POST['secondname'];
if(isset($_POST['address']) && !empty($_POST['address']))
	$rgaddress = $_POST['address'];
if(isset($_POST['postcode']) && !empty($_POST['postcode']))
	$rgpostcode = $_POST['postcode'];
if(isset($_POST['postarea']) && !empty($_POST['postarea']))
	$rgpostarea = $_POST['postarea'];
if(isset($_POST['phone']) && !empty($_POST['phone']))
	$rgphone = $_POST['phone'];
if(isset($_POST['email']) && !empty($_POST['email']))
	$rgemail = $_POST['email'];
if(isset($_POST['password']) && !empty($_POST['password']))
	$rgpassword = $_POST['password'];
if(isset($_POST['passwordrepeat']) && !empty($_POST['passwordrepeat']))
	$rgpasswordrepeat = $_POST['passwordrepeat'];


?>

<table width="620px" cellpadding="0" cellsoacing="0">
<tr>
    	<td width="100px">
        
        	<h1>
			<?php echo $register; ?>
            </h1>

	</td>
</tr>
    
    <form name="register" action="index.php?page=primary/registration" method="POST">

    <tr>
    	<td>
        	<?php echo $firstnamelbl; ?>
        </td>
        
        <td>
        	<input type='text' name='firstname'>
        </td>
    </tr>
    
   	<tr>
    	<td>
        	<?php echo $secondnamelbl; ?>
        </td>
        
    <td>
        	<input type='text' name='secondname'>
        </td>
    </tr>
    
    <tr>
    	<td>
        	<?php echo $addresslbl; ?>
        </td>
        
        <td>
        	<input type='text' name='address'>
        </td>
    </tr>
    
  	<tr>
    	<td>
        	<?php echo $postcodelbl; ?>
        </td>
        
        <td>
        	<input type='text' name='postcode'>
        </td>
    </tr>
    
  	<tr>
    	<td>
        	<?php echo $postarealbl; ?>
        </td>
        
        <td>
        	<input type='text' name='postarea'>
        </td>
    </tr>
    
   	<tr>
    	<td>
        	<?php echo $phonelbl; ?>
        </td>
        
        <td>
        	<input type='text' name='phone'>
        </td>
    </tr>
    
   	<tr>
    	<td>
        	Email
        </td>
        
        <td>
        	<input type='text' name='email'>
        </td>
    </tr>
    
   	<tr>
    	<td>
        	<?php echo $passwordlbl2; ?>
        </td>
        
        <td>
        	<input type='password' name='password'>
        </td>
    </tr>
    
  	<tr>
    	<td>
        	<?php echo $passwordrepeatlbl; ?>
        </td>
        
        <td>
        	<input type='password' name='passwordrepeat'>
        </td>
    </tr>
    
      	<tr>
    	<td>
        	
        </td>
        
        <td>
        	<input type='submit' name='submit' value="<?php echo $register; ?>">
        </td>
    </tr>
    
    </form>
</table>

rdkd1970 · May 22, 2011

Are you saying the last section is your registration that is returning to the index.php? What is the form name put that in the action of the form.

tommybfisher · May 24, 2011

Yes it is the last section that is taking me back to index.php. I have tried putting the name of the form into the form action, I've also tried putting in the same page's file name, I've tried $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], and I've also tried an external website address, all of which takes me back to index.php. This all makes me sure that the problem is not in the form action itself, but somewhere before...

Could it have something to do with the two forms being on the same page? They both have separate names though, so I don't see why it should.

(By the way, from the code of the first form (login) I uploaded, I found that I forgot the </form> tag. I put this in hoping that this was the problem, but I still had the same problem.)

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