RE: [PHP-DB] Form response

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:warrenmassengill@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 8:19 PM To: php-db@lists.php.net 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

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