Re: passing variables to php script

On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 21:43 +0100, Marco Behnke wrote: > Am 10.01.12 21:28, schrieb Mike Mackintosh: > > > > On Jan 10, 2012, at 15:12, Marco Behnke <marco@behnke.biz> wrote: > > > >> Am 10.01.12 21:07, schrieb Donovan Brooke: > >>> David Savage wrote: > >>>> OK...I admit I'm new at this....I have this html file: > >>>> <html> > >>>> <head> > >>>> <title>Generate pdf file of LD, Toll Free, and Directory Assistance > >>>> calls</titl > >>>> </head> > >>>> <body> > >>>> <form action="Q:\ASTERISK\callrecs.php" > >>>> method="post"> > >> Stupid question ..... where have you copied your script? Is it lying on > >> a webserver? Then I would guess that you are submitting the form on your > >> webserver which hits the PHP script on your Desktop PC which in tunr > >> invokes the PHP command line interpreter who has no idea what you mean > >> by $_POST. > >> > >> Try changing the form action to simply "callrecs.php" and see if that works. > > Q: would be referencing a filesystem path, rather a web address interpreted by a PHP > > processor. Make sure your .php target is within a PHP supported web space. > If a default application is set within windows for php, the script > submitting to Q will be executed. > > But wouldn't Windows attempt to execute the PHP script as if it were a CLI script, not as if it were within a web server context? That would make posting a form pretty pointless. -- Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk