HTML form action not passing content to PHP file

Dafydd · 12-21-2013, 10:13 PM

The code snippets below are taken from 'w3school' PHP forums. They are not working as expected. The content is not passed.

In searching for information on $S_SESSIONS, I seem to remembers something about this issue because it was not hooked to Apache (or something like that). I can not remember what I was searching for or where I say this and can not find it again.

Am I remembering correctly and if so, what key words do I search for? Is there a tutorial I should read on how to set up my computer so I can check performance without having to upload to a server on line? I would like to use a command line from a teminial.

Code:

opera welcome.html

welcome.html

Code:

<html>
<body>

<form action="welcome_get.php" method="post">
Name: <input type="text" name="name"><br>
E-mail: <input type="text" name="email"><br>
<input type="submit">
</form>

</body>
</html>

welcome_get.php

Code:

<html>
<body>

Welcome <?php echo $_ POST["name"]; ?><br>
Your email address is: <?php echo $_POST["email"]; ?>

</body>
</html>

This is the output. The content is not passed.

Quote:

Welcome
Your email address is:

astrogeek · 12-21-2013, 10:30 PM

You are not loading the page as an http request, so apache and php are not in the picture.

You must have the page delivered by an http server (i.e., apache), and that server must be configured to process php mime-types as php code (see httpd.conf), then you must request it as an http request (i.e., url)

So to test on the local machine (variations by distro) enable php in the server config, start or restart the http server, and hit it with the browser as something like http://localhost/welcome.php.

Dafydd · 12-22-2013, 12:56 AM

Thank you Astrogeek. This is sorta what I'm looking for. At least a place to start. Let me chew o n this , I'll be back.

sycamorex · 12-22-2013, 01:41 AM

To put it simple, code/markup written in html/css/javascript(jquery) is processed by a browser so you could just load it up like you did and test things. PHP, on the other hand is a "server-side" scripting language. It gets processed by the server (eg. Apache) which sends the output to a browser. Web browsers do not "understand" PHP.