[SOLVED] Posting Problem

Frznagn · #1 (**permalink**) 04-24-08, 01:49 AM

Noob Alert. I'm following a tutorial on form processing and I'm having problems.

I have xampp installed locally and I run the code without any problems, but when I use the same files on my server, I get a 404 Error. The file is there. What gives?

Since I get it working locally, I take it nothing is wrong with the code so posting it here would be useless. I shouldn't have to do any sort of chmod on it, right?

blinn_shade · #2 (**permalink**) 04-24-08, 03:29 AM

Lets see the code. Your host might need to change some php settings or soemthing.

Frznagn · #3 (**permalink**) 04-24-08, 08:09 PM

This is from tizag.com

The order file:

HTML Code:

<body>
<h4>Tizag Art Supply Order Form</h4>
<form action="process.php" method="post"> 
<select name="item"> 
<option>Paint</option>
<option>Brushes</option>
<option>Erasers</option>
</select>
Quantity: <input name="quantity" type="text" /> 
<input type="submit" />
</form>
</body>

And the process.php file:

PHP Code:


			
<body>

<?php

$quantity = $_POST['quantity'];

$item = $_POST['item'];



echo "You ordered ". $quantity . " " . $item . ".<br />";

echo "Thank you for ordering from Tizag Art Supplies!";



?>

</body>

Just a basic copy/paste from their site. I tried other examples with the same results. I decided to give up and seek help. You can only bang your head against the keyboard for so long, ya'know what I mean?

Jay6390 · #4 (**permalink**) 04-24-08, 08:16 PM

Have you tested static pages to make sure that your host is actually configured properly?

Frznagn · #5 (**permalink**) 04-24-08, 08:31 PM

Not sure what you mean by static pages. I do have other .php pages running without a problem.

Here , and here.

The only problem I've had so far is with the Post command. Odd?

Frznagn · #6 (**permalink**) 04-24-08, 08:52 PM

PHP settings on server:

Optimization: Alternate PHP Cache (APC)
Memory limit: 32 mb
Safe mode: Yes
Register Globals: No
Display Errors: Yes
Allow URL Fopen: No

Should I take it off Safe Mode?

mab · #7 (**permalink**) 04-24-08, 08:57 PM

Make sure any capitalization of file names matches what the action="..." parameter is.

Also, are you doing any URL rewriting? Alaska in one of your links is redirected back to Alaska when I entered alaska.

In fact, entering your_domain/process.php gets redirected to your_domain/Process.php with the resultant output -

Quote:

You ordered .
Thank you for ordering from Tizag Art Supplies!

Edit: Based on the above, I would say you have a .htaccess file that is playing some un-necessary games that is preventing the form from submitting to the form processing code.

Jay6390 · #8 (**permalink**) 04-24-08, 08:57 PM

I wouldnt have thought so no. save the following as test.php in your public_html folder on your server

PHP Code:


			
<?php
if(isset($_POST['txt']))
    $txt = 'You typed '.$_POST['txt'];
?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Test page</title>
</head>

<body>
<div id='txt'>
<?php
if(isset($txt))
    echo $txt;
?>
</div>
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="">
  <p>
    <input type="text" name="txt" id="txt" />
</p>
  <p>
    <input type="submit" name="btnSubmit" id="btnSubmit" value="Submit" />
</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>

tell me if that works

EDIT: Static page is a page without dynamic/changing content

mab · #9 (**permalink**) 04-24-08, 09:12 PM

In fact, upon further testing by putting a copy of your form on my server, using an upper case P in Process.php allows it to submit (lower case p in process.php gets the 404 page.)

Your .htaccess if probably doing something with 'HTTP_REFERER' and a rewrite rule to capitalize the first letter of the file name, but when 'HTTP_REFERER' either does not exist or does not match, it leaves the file name alone and it does not match the actual file present on the server.

Frznagn · #10 (**permalink**) 04-24-08, 09:47 PM

mab: Success! I changed it to a capital letter and it works fine! I'm embarrassed that it was such a simple fix, but happy to comprehend the problem. I was afraid it'd be really technical!

Jay: Yes, that code works. And does this count as a static page?

Thanks for all the help and the fast response! Is it any wonder why I visit this site every day?

Now to figure out how to mark this as solved....