Re: Problems with PHP3 script - Missing Post reply data

Hi Michael, Just to let you know, I fixed the problem by changing the form to GET rather than POST the data. Michael Dearman wrote: > > I've got a simple html form which is posted to a php3 file. The PHP > > file is processing it and it looks to be mostly correct. > You mean your actually getting an html page rendered when you hit the submit > button? > (cont'd) On the screen I was getting the page I wanted. When I viewed the source however, I just got the text that I specified in the initial email. > > <TITLE>Missing Post reply data</TITLE> > > <H1>Data Missing</H1> > > This document resulted from a POST operation and has expired from the > > cache. > Check how your browsers cache is set up? It was set to 0 > You know, this brings something up. I've read that (I guess) by default) > (at least) Apache sends the result request to the browser in such a fashion > that dynamically generated pages won't be cached. You have to do some magic > with expires module or some such. Or does PHP handle this? No idea... I'd be interested in knowing though. As this page is sitting on an Apache server. > The below FORM and SCRIPT are embedded in proper html elements? Yes they were. > > <?php > > $cardfile="cardfile.txt"; > > $dataarray=file("$cardfile"); > > $filearray = file("$cardfile"); > Just curious: Why 2 arrays of some thing? Apparently not using $filearray. I was modifying an existing script & wasn't sure if it was required. I will remove one of them though. Thanks. > > $httpcounter=0; > > $tok = strtok($dataarray[$viewcard-1],":"); > Oh, should of mentioned "Tain't a guru". But, $viewcard coming in as a number > that is a string? Don't know, just that the input type is text. Well, if a single > digit, type casting not a problem. But you might want to do some validation here or > just force a type cast to int. Or maybe not. It should always be a number. It should be the number of lines of the cardfile.txt+1 I believe. How do I make it so that it doesn't accept "A" or other invalid strings in the form? > > while($tok){ > > $httpcounter++; > > if ($httpcounter == 1) { > > echo ""; > > } elseif($httpcounter == 2){ > > echo "<table><tr><td><IMG > > STYLE=\"$tok\"></td> "; > > } elseif ($httpcounter == 4) { > > echo "<td><table><tr><td> TheMessage: $tok > > </td>"; > > } elseif ($httpcounter == 5) { > > echo "<td> Sender: $tok </td>"; > > } elseif ($httpcounter == 6) { > > echo "<td> SEmail: $tok </td>"; > > } elseif ($httpcounter == 7) { > > echo "<td> Reciever: $tok </td>"; > > } else { > counter hits 3, falls thru to here. Isn't this screwing your > table up? Yup, Indeed it was. I'll attach the revised script to the bottom. THE NEW (WORKING) FORM: <form method="GET" action="receive.php3"> <input type="text" size="5" name="viewcard"> <input TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="View Card!"></form> THE NEW (WORKING) SCRIPT: <?php $cardfile="cardfile.txt"; $dataarray=file("$cardfile"); $httpcounter=0; $tok = strtok($dataarray[$viewcard-1],":"); while($tok){ if ($httpcounter == 0) { echo ""; } elseif($httpcounter == 1){ echo "<table BORDER=0 WIDTH=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=TOP>\n<IMG src=\"graphics/$tok\">\n</td>\n "; } elseif ($httpcounter == 2) { echo "<td VALIGN=TOP>\n<table BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 COLS=2 WIDTH=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<b>To:</b>\n</td>\n<td>\n<a href=\"mailto:$tok\">"; } elseif ($httpcounter == 3) { echo "$tok</a>\n</td>\n</tr>\n"; } elseif ($httpcounter == 4) { echo "<tr>\n<td>\n<b>From:</b></td>\n<td>\n<a href=\"mailto:$tok\">"; } elseif ($httpcounter == 5) { echo "$tok</a>\n</td>\n</tr>\n</table>\n"; } elseif ($httpcounter == 6) { echo "<B>Message:</B><BR>$tok</td>\n</td>\n</tr>\n</table>\n"; } else { } $tok = strtok(":"); $httpcounter++; } ?> -- Mike A. Gifford OpenConcept Consulting Mike@OpenConcept.On.Ca Http://www.OpenConcept.On.Ca Web Design, Hosting, Graphic Design & Site Promotion Featured Site --> Http://WTOAction.Org