Try $_POST['field_1'] instead of $field_1
---John Holmes...
I tried this with two different versions of reaction.php.
Still displays only the source code.
Thanks,
Warren
----------------------------------------
<html>
<body>
A Simple Form
<br><br>
<form action="reaction.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="$_POST['field_1']" size="10"><br><br>
<input type="submit" name="submitbutton">
</form>
</body>
</html>
---------------------------------------------
<?php
if ($$_POST['field_1'])
{
echo "$_POST['field_1']: $$_POST['field_1']";
}
else
{
echo "nothing has been passed to this script";
}
?>
---------------------------------------------------
<?php
if ($field_1)
{
echo "$_POST['field_1']: $field_1";
}
else
{
echo "nothing has been passed to this script";
}
?>
-----------------------------------------------------
<?php
if ($$_POST['field_1'])
{
echo "$_POST['field_1']: $$_POST['field_1']";
}
else
{
echo "nothing has been passed to this script";
}
?>
-----------------------------------------------------
I tried this with two different versions of reaction.php.
Still displays only the source code.
Thanks,
Warren
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Warren Massengill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 8:19 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [PHP-DB] Form response
>
>Hi,
>
>RedHat 7.2 RPM with PostgreSQL 7.1.x and PHP 4.0.6
>
>Page 111 of "PHP and PostgreSQL", this form displays in Mozilla. The
>submit
>button is expected to run a script called reaction.php but it opens
the
>script and displays the code. The response is the same with or without
>variable input.
>
>I changed the script file to executable: no effect.
>
>I can run 'reaction.php' from the shell and it works.
>What is the problem here?
>---------------------------------
>form
>-----------------------------------------------------------------
><html>
><body>
> A Simple Form
> <br><br>
> <form action="reaction.php" method="post">
> <input type="text" name="field_1" size="10"><br><br>
> <input type="submit" name="submitbutton">
> </form>
></body>
></html>
>
>-------------
>Reaction.php
>------------------------------------------------------------------
>action.php
>
><?php
> if ($field_1)
> {
> echo "field_1: $field_1";
> }
> else
> {
> echo "nothing has been passed to this script";
> }
>?>
>----------------------
>run as stand alone php file
>-----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>bash-2.05$ php < reaction.php
>X-Powered-By: PHP/4.0.6
>Content-type: text/html
>nothing has been passed to this script
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>In:
>/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
> (appears as above plus an entry for each of php2,3,&4)
> LoadModule php4_module modules/libphp4.so
> LoadModule php_module modules/mod_php.so
>
>These were all uncommented in the RPM installation of RedHat 7.2.
>Somehow PHP is partially working...
>Any suggestions?
>
>I can create forms in php and tables in PostgreSQL but according to
>phpinfo(), php is not configured for PostfreSQL.
>
>If I survive this problem, that one is on the horizon. Does anyone
have a
>generic list of things to do after an RPM installation of RedHat Linux
7.2
>in order to use PHP with PostgreSQL?
>
>Thanks,
>Warren
_________________________________________________________________
Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
--
PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)
To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
