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jimmi8

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HI,
i have this code:


PHP Code:
<?php include ('header.inc'); ?>

<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">


<p><b>title</b> <input type="text" name="title" size="10" maxlength="20" value="" /></p>

<p><b>body</b><textarea name="body" rows="10" columns="50"></textarea></p>

<p>category</p><select name="category">
    <option value="fish">fiah</option>
    <option value="fish"></option>
   
</select>
<div align="center"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit" /></div>

<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
   

    if(isset($_POST['title'])) {
    $title = ($_POST['title']);
    }
    else {
    $title = NULL;
    }

    if(isset($_POST['body'])) {
    $body = ($_POST['body']);
    }
    else {
    $body = NULL;
    }

    if(isset($_POST['category'])) {
    $category = ($_POST['category']);
    }
    else {
    $category = NULL;
    }

if ($title && $body && $category) {

        require_once ('mysql_connect.php');
       
        $query = "INSERT INTO entries (blog_id, title, date_submitted, category, body) VALUES (NULL, '$title', NOW(), '$category', '$body')";
        $result = mysql_query ($query);

        if($result) {
      echo '<p>entered please check the following</p>';
      echo "$title', '$body', '$category";
      exit();
        }

        else {
            echo '<p>there was an error</p>';
        }
       
}



else {
            echo '<p>there was an error</p>';
        }
}
echo '</form>';




 


?>

<?php include ('footer.inc'); ?>
I realise the code is probably a little antiquated ( im open to suggestions on how to improve it!) but it does do the job of validating my form and then inputting the data in to a database. Its my first script!

Anyways the problem im having is that if you are successful the browser re-loads the page with the correct things echoed back but the footer include is missing, it doesnt display.

could anyone tell me why?
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jimmi8 Member

jimmi8

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HI,

Yeah sure. heres the header code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml1-20000126/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=iso-8859-1" />
<title><?php echo $page_title; ?></title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4">
  <tr>
    <td width="100%" bgcolor="#666666"><font color="#CCCCCC"><big><b>Welcome to my site!</b></big></font></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2">
        <tr>
          <td align="center"><a href="index.php">Home</a></td>
          <td align="center"><a href="dateform.php">Date Form</a></td>
          <td align="center"><a href="calculator.php">Calculator</a></td>
          <td align="center"><a href="register.php">Register</a></td>
        </tr>
      </table></td>
  </tr>
</table>
<br />
<!-- Script 3.2  header.inc ends here -->
<!-- PAGE SPECIFIC CONTENT STARTS HERE. -->


and heres the footer:
<!-- Script 3.3 footer.inc -->
<br />
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
  <tr>
    <td> <div align="center">&copy; 2003 Larry E. Ullman and DMC Insights, Inc.</div></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Please excuse the needless use of tables! I was following a tut that used this header and footer and just re-used them here!
Philip Advanced Member

Philip

Posted
Posted
It is because you have exited the script, which is basically saying "stop here please!":
[code]<?php
if($result) {
        echo '<p>entered please check the following</p>';
        echo "$title', '$body', '$category";
        exit();
      }
?>[/code]

So:
[code]  <?php include ('header.inc'); ?>

  <form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">


  <p>title <input type="text" name="title" size="10" maxlength="20" value="" /></p>

  <p>body<textarea name="body" rows="10" columns="50"></textarea></p>

  <p>category</p><select name="category">
  <option value="fish">fiah</option>
  <option value="fish"></option>

  </select>
  <div align="center"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit" /></div>

  <?php
  if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
    if(isset($_POST['title'])) {
      $title = ($_POST['title']);
    } else {
      $title = NULL;
    }
    if(isset($_POST['body'])) {
      $body = ($_POST['body']);
    } else {
      $body = NULL;
    }
    if(isset($_POST['category'])) {
      $category = ($_POST['category']);
    } else {
      $category = NULL;
    }
    if ($title && $body && $category) {
      require_once ('mysql_connect.php');
      $query = "INSERT INTO entries (blog_id, title, date_submitted, category, body) VALUES (NULL, '$title', NOW(), '$category', '$body')";
      $result = mysql_query ($query);
      if($result) {
        echo '<p>entered please check the following</p>';
        echo "$title', '$body', '$category";
      } else {
        echo '<p>there was an error</p>';
      }
    } else {
      echo '<p>there was an error</p>';
    }
  }
  echo '</form>';

  include ('footer.inc');
?>[/code]


AHHH The code tags are all messing up!

[i]EDIT2: I would suggest renaming your title (has nothing to do with redirecting ;))[/i]

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