Instead of directly posting the form you'll want to use
gadgets.io.makeRequest()
http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/remote-content.html

The OS Lite API is more recent which is less verbose but there aren't as
many examples published using osapi.http yet. See
http://wiki.opensocial.org/index.php?title=Osapi.http_%28v0.9%29 for more
details.


Rob Russell
Google Developer Relations


On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Linh Pham <[email protected]> wrote:

> So I am currently working at Stanford over the summer and I have to
> make a google gadget on energy conservation. What I want the gadget to
> do is allow the user to log in, and based on the login info, I should
> be able to use php scripts to access information from a database about
> their energy usage. So far I have this:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> <Module>
>  <ModulePrefs title="Go to Photo Album" height="350" scaling="false" /
> >
>  <Content type="html">
>  <![CDATA[
>        <html>
> <head></head>
> <body>
>
>        <form action="summedDataGrabber.php" method="POST" ><br>
> <div>
> <h2> Power Checker </h2><br>
> Channel ID <input type="text" name="channelID"><br>
> Home ID <input type"text" name="homeID"><br>
> Start Date <input type"text" name="startTime"><br>
> End Date <input type"text" name="endTime"><br>
> </div>
>
> <input type="submit" value="Submit!"/>
>
>
> </form>
>
> </body>
>
> </html>
>
>  ]]>
>  </Content>
> </Module>
>
>
> The php file on my server is this:
>
> <?php
>
> /*takes in a homeID, channelID, start and end time and retrieves total
> energy output during that time period*/
>
> //input variables
> $channelID = $_POST["channelID"];  //of the form: deviceID-nodeID
> $deviceID = strtok($channelID,"-");
> $nodeID = strtok("-");
>
> $homeID = $_POST["homeID"];
> $start = $_POST["startTime"];
> $end = $_POST["endTime"];
>
> echo('whhhhhhhhat');
>
> ?>
>
> But when I click the submit button, the forms are still there and
> nothing is echo'ed. I don't have a lot of html or javascript
> experience and any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
>
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