Form from scratch

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 10:07 am

Hey all-

Having a Blonde Moment

it appears. I am writing a very simple and basic form that has 3 inputs & 3 divs on it so that I can play around with ajax testing different things. I've setup the form the way I "thought" it should be... however, I'm running into all sorts of problems. I must be missing something somewhere somehow.

Here is how i've tried it.. two files only (index.php & submit.php)

index.php:

Code:

<?php





if (!defined('MODULE_FILE')) {


      die ('Access Denied');


}





$module_file = "modules";





require_once("mainfile.php");








include('header.php');





opentable();





echo '<form id="submit" class="cmxform" action="' . $module_file . '.php?name=' . $module_name . '" method="post">';





echo '<table width="60%" id="formcontain" align="center" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" border="0">';





echo '<tr>';


echo '<td align="center">Input 1</td>';


echo '<td align="center"><input type="text" id="input1" size="15" /></td>';


echo '<td align="center"><font color="red"><div id="input1d">Returned Data</div></td>';


echo '</tr>';








echo '<tr>';


echo '<td align="center">Input 2</td>';


echo '<td align="center"><input type="text" id="input2" size="15" /></td>';


echo '<td align="center"><font color="blue"><div id="input2d">Returned Data</div></td>';


echo '</tr>';








echo '<tr>';


echo '<td align="center">Input 3</td>';


echo '<td align="center"><input type="text" id="input3" size="15" /></td>';


echo '<td align="center"><font color="green"><div id="input3d">Returned Data</div></td>';


echo '</tr>';








echo '<tr><td colspan="3" align="center"><input type="submit" id="submit" value="Submit Data" />';


echo '<input type="hidden" name="op" value="Submit" />'."\n";


echo '</tr>';








echo '<tr><td colspan="3" align="center"><b><div id="hover">HOVER TO FETCH DATA</div></b>';


echo '</tr>';





echo '</table>';











echo '</form>';





closetable();





include('footer.php');





?>

submit.php

Code:

<?php





 








$input1 = $_POST['input1'];





echo '<b>' . $input1 . '</b';


echo '<b>TEST</b>';








 ?>

The reason I don't have all the inputs on the submit is because I am debugging a separate error and reduced it down to a bare min.

So at this point... the form should be sending the data to the submit.php where I'm simply attempting to echo that data out to verify it's actually passing... it's not though. Not quite sure what I'm missing and where. (i've also tried hardcoding the submit location) Any advice or insight? Thanks.

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 12:23 pm

There is no code tell the script how to get to submit.php. You need to have a SWITCH statement that either displays the index or includes sumbit.php. Look at the example I posted in the javascript thread. http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/posts19326-start-25.html You can skip over all the javascript and css in the beginning. You will see a switch statement and two functions at the bottom. You can either wrap your code within the switch or use functions as I did.

If you do not understand let me know, and I can slap something together real quick to show you.

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 12:34 pm

Got it sorted... over my blonde experience. Wasn't using the "name". Wink

Thanks nuken...i'm slow somedays.