$_POST problems

[joey99881]

Hi all,

Take one form:

<form method="post" action="process.php" />
  <input type="text" name="foreame" />
  <input type="text" name="surname" />
  <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

Add in a php script:

<?php
  $firstame = $_POST['foreame'];
  $lastname = $_POST['surname'];

  echo "Hello ". $firstame . " " . $lastname;
  echo "Thank you for ordering from us";

  echo var_dump($_POST);

?>

Result:

Blank screen.

Any ideals? Ta!

[joey99881]

$firstame = $_POST['foreame'];..........

I Im of course spelling firstname correctly in the script...

[JKing]

Total blank screen? Not even "Hello Thank you for ordering from us"?

Is the file name for your script correct? Any errors? Do you have error reporting on?

[joey99881]

No, not even "Hello Thank you for ordering from us"!

Ive double checked the filenames and they are all correct. May it's a problem with my web server?

[JKing]

Are you working locally?

Is error reporting on?

[joey99881]

Ive checked php.ini and error_reporting = E_ALL is set.
Also Im working locally with wamp

[JKing]

How are you accessing the page?

[joey99881]

Er...

Im getting the submit button in form.html to call process.php

Sorry Im not that experienced

[Atli]

Does your URL look like "http://localhost/..." or something like "file:///C:/wamp/..."? If it's the second one, change it to the first one.

In the page that should show "Thank you for ordering from us", is anything printed to the source? (Right-click->View Page Source)
If you see the PHP code itself, and the URL is correct, then your HTTP server is not configured to use PHP.

[joey99881]

By Jove! I changed it to http://localhost/... and it works. Obviouis really. I was editing the site in dreamweaver and just pressing F12 to preview the page in firefox. Never realised that this would bypass wamp!

Thanks for your help and sorry for being a muppit!