Re: Re: [PHP] junk from my forms output

On 19 Oct 2011 at 22:27, Simon J Welsh <simon@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"> >> <p>Your name: <input type="text" name="name" /></p> >> <p>Your age: <input type="text" name="age" /></p> >> <p><input 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. -- Cheers -- Tim