bluethundr Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Hello, I am trying to get the hang of php using some examples that I found in a book. I've been making progress lately, but one thing has me a bit stumped. In an HTML form that I am echoing through PHP I would like to embed smaller chunks of php in the code like so: echo '<br /><br /> <form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>"> <label for="subject">Subject of email:</label><br /> <input id="subject" name="subject" type="text" value="<?php echo $subject;?>"><br /> <label for="elvismail">Body of email:</label><br /> <textarea id="elvismail" name="elvismail" rows="8" cols="40">"<?php echo $text;?>" </textarea><br /> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" /> </form>'; If I do embed the smaller chunks of php in the form the way I've just shown you the script instantly breaks and the web page shows only a white screen of death. And I see this in the web server logs [sat Jun 30 19:12:54 2012] [notice] child pid 7769 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) If I remove the smaller bits of php as I show here the web page starts working again echo '<br /><br /> <form method="post" action="sendemail.php"> <label for="subject">Subject of email:</label><br /> <input id="subject" name="subject" type="text"><br /> <label for="elvismail">Body of email:</label><br /> <textarea id="elvismail" name="elvismail" rows="8" cols="40"></textarea><br /> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" /> </form>'; Here, I'll show the entire script so you can get a better sense of what it does <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Make Me Elvis - Send Email</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" /> </head> <body> <img src="blankface.jpg" width="161" height="350" alt="" style="float:right" /> <img name="elvislogo" src="elvislogo.gif" width="229" height="32" border="0" alt="Make Me Elvis" /> <p><strong>Private:</strong> For Elmer's use ONLY<br /><br Write and send an email to mailing list members.</p> <?php error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set('display_errors', 'On'); if (isset($_POST['Submit'])) { $from = 'bluethundr@mydomain.com'; $subject = $_POST['subject']; $text = $_POST['elvismail']; $output_form = "false"; if (empty($subject) && empty($text)) { echo 'You forgot the email subject and body.<br />'; $output_form = 'true'; } if (empty($subject) && !empty($text)) { echo 'You forgot the email subject.<br />'; $output_form="true"; } if ((!empty($subject)) && empty($text)) { echo 'You forgot the email body text.<br />'; $output_form="true"; } } else { $output_form = 'true'; } if ($output_form == 'true') { echo '<br /><br /> <form method="post" action="sendemail.php"> <label for="subject">Subject of email:</label><br /> <input id="subject" name="subject" type="text"><br /> <label for="elvismail">Body of email:</label><br /> <textarea id="elvismail" name="elvismail" rows="8" cols="40"></textarea><br /> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" /> </form>'; } else { $dbc = mysqli_connect('127.0.0.1', 'admin', 'secret ', 'elvis_store') or die('Error connecting to MySQL server.'); $query = "SELECT * FROM email_list"; $result = mysqli_query($dbc, $query) or die('Error querying database.'); while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)){ $to = $row['email']; $first_name = $row['first_name']; $last_name = $row['last_name']; $msg = "Dear $first_name $last_name,\n$text"; mail($to, $subject, $msg, 'From:' . $from); echo 'Email sent to: ' . $to . '<br />'; } mysqli_close($dbc); } ?> </body> </html> I was hoping that someone might be out there that could understand this problem and point out where I'm going wrong. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnsmith153 Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 echo '<br /><br /> <form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>"> should be: echo '<br /><br /> <form method="post" action="' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '"> ..and the same for the other PHP you've used. Also, it might be worth searching on Google for the 'dangers of PHP_SELF' or something like that, as it's not the best way to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikachu2000 Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 You are trying to issue an opening <?php tag without closing the previously opened <?php tag. I've never seen it cause that particular error, though. http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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