[PHP] junk from my forms output

2011-10-19 Thread hanson zhou 
I have the following in a file called hello.php in my htdocs directory
(Apache webroot).

form action=action.php method=post
 pYour name: input type=text name=name //p
 pYour age: input type=text name=age //p
 pinput type=submit //p
/form

as well as the following in a file action.php, also in the same directory.


Hi ?php echo htmlspecialchars($_POST['name']); ?.
You are ?php echo (int)$_POST['age']; ? years old.

When I click on the submit button of the form in hello.php, it should say
something like:
Hi Hanson.  You are 33 years old.  But instead of just saying that it also
appends a bunch of junk at the beginning like this:

{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fcharset0
Arial;}} {\*\generator Msftedit 5.41.21.2509;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs20 Hi
hanson .\par You are 33 years old.\par } �

Can someone help me with this?  Why does my forms reply from action.php
contain so much junk?  I have a Windows installation of PHP and Apache.

thanks,
-Hanson

Re: [PHP] junk from my forms output

2011-10-19 Thread Simon J Welsh 

On 20/10/2011, at 10:24 AM, hanson zhou wrote:

 I have the following in a file called hello.php in my htdocs directory
 (Apache webroot).
 
 form action=action.php method=post
 pYour name: input type=text name=name //p
 pYour age: input type=text name=age //p
 pinput type=submit //p
 /form
 
 as well as the following in a file action.php, also in the same directory.
 
 
 Hi ?php echo htmlspecialchars($_POST['name']); ?.
 You are ?php echo (int)$_POST['age']; ? years old.
 
 When I click on the submit button of the form in hello.php, it should say
 something like:
 Hi Hanson.  You are 33 years old.  But instead of just saying that it also
 appends a bunch of junk at the beginning like this:
 
 {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fcharset0
 Arial;}} {\*\generator Msftedit 5.41.21.2509;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs20 Hi
 hanson .\par You are 33 years old.\par } �
 
 Can someone help me with this?  Why does my forms reply from action.php
 contain so much junk?  I have a Windows installation of PHP and Apache.
 
 thanks,
 -Hanson


You saved action.php as a RTF file rather than a plain text file. Resave it as 
a plain text file.
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Re: Re: [PHP] junk from my forms output

2011-10-19 Thread Tim Streater 
On 19 Oct 2011 at 22:27, Simon J Welsh si...@welsh.co.nz wrote: 

 On 20/10/2011, at 10:24 AM, hanson zhou wrote:

 I have the following in a file called hello.php in my htdocs directory
 (Apache webroot).

 form action=action.php method=post
 pYour name: input type=text name=name //p
 pYour age: input type=text name=age //p
 pinput type=submit //p
 /form

 as well as the following in a file action.php, also in the same directory.

 Hi ?php echo htmlspecialchars($_POST['name']); ?.
 You are ?php echo (int)$_POST['age']; ? years old.

 When I click on the submit button of the form in hello.php, it should say
 something like:
 Hi Hanson.  You are 33 years old.  But instead of just saying that it also
 appends a bunch of junk at the beginning like this:

 {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fcharset0
 Arial;}} {\*\generator Msftedit 5.41.21.2509;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs20 Hi
 hanson .\par You are 33 years old.\par } �

 Can someone help me with this?  Why does my forms reply from action.php
 contain so much junk?  I have a Windows installation of PHP and Apache.

 You saved action.php as a RTF file rather than a plain text file. Resave it as
 a plain text file.

Sounds like you should also use a text editor rather that Word or similar for 
editing your program files. Use Notepad or whatever they have or Windows 
machines.

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