PHP :: Form Submission And Include Files

Include Prevents Submission
I have a form which when the submit button is pressed it should go to a different page.... but when i have an include to do with absolutely nothing relating to the page other than to display how much money the user has.. and what level they are it just refreshes the page rather than doing the relocation.

If i remove the include how ever it works . Would any one know what sorta thing causes this so i can check it out ?

Server-Side Form Submission - Form Submits To Form, Which Autosubmits. BAD!
I have a php form from which the user fills out their name and address and clicks "Submit".

The form goes to a page that stores the data in a mySQL database, then, using hidden fields, populates another form and actives with a javascript onLoad=submit() to send the information on to the final destination.

I cannot control or edit the final destinations web page, which is why the interim page is needed.

What I would like is for the user to fill out the form, and upon submission have the data recorded into the database and have the data passed on in a "form like way" on to the final destination BY THE SERVER, not by the use of a hidden form page that auto submits.

Any suggestions?

Here is the interim page's code below:

<?
$link = @mysql_connect($db_host_name, $db_name, $the_decoded_password) or die;
@mysql_select_db($db_name) or die;

$query = "INSERT INTO web_link VALUES ('', '$a', '$b', '$c','$d', '$e', '$f', '$g', '$h')";
$result = @mysql_query($query) or die;
?>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body onLoad="document.contactme.submit();">
<form name="contactme" method="post" action="http://www.test.com/cgi/storethisdata" >
print "<input type="hidden" name="first_name" value="$first_name"><br>";
print "<input type="hidden" name="last_name" value="$last_name"><br>";
print "<input type="hidden" name="email" value="$email"><p>";
print "<input type="hidden" name="phone" value="$phone"><p>";
?>
</form>
</body>

</html>

Form Submission Fills Form Values With Garbage
I'm attempting to do some form processing on a server that has register_globals off, however, I've run into a confusing situation and need some help.

Basically, the form is a multi-part/form-data form as I have it upload a file in addition to submit a number of other fields, but the error I have occurs even when no upload is done.

When I submit the form, all my input field variables get filled with garbage. Here's the html before submission for one of the fields: Code:

Form Self Submission
I have a form which I am trying to have submit to itself, but change 1 var so that it changes what is printed. how can i do this so it works? Code:

Form Submission
I print out the following after I submit a button. How can i print the following two buttons in the previous form which I'm submitting.Of course, these two buttons should appear only after the form is submitted. Code:

Form Submission
I have an event calendar. Users submit thier events and then I also allow them to edit thier entries. When they edit an event, that recorded is stored in a different table. I then go in and view the record. When I submit it, it updates the main table.

Below is the code for viewing the edited info. On some records the submit button doesn't work? I click on it and nothing happens? Why would this happen? PHP Code:

Form Submission
I am working on a PHP based web-site which is running a text based war game. So, there are lots of forms users need to submit. One of the form players submits is to ‘attack’ other player (not physically though). For that, player needs to fill out a form (let say this form is on the script1) having two or three input text fields.

After filling out the form user clicks on submit button which then calls (let say script 2) .This script 2 then does all the logic, modifies the database according to who won the attack , calls back the script 1 with the result to be shown to the player. But what is happening right now is that players are abusing the game by clicking the submit buttons or hitting (enter/return) key multiple times(very very quickly), although they are allowed to attack as many times as they want but not before the last attack is done means until they got the result of last attack.

They are clicking submit buttons before the last submission updates the database. Is there any way once the player submits the form, they cannot submit it again until the script 1(containing the form) gets reloaded again with the result. Also each script is a PHP Script. I hope I explained my problem. I heard there is way u can do it with JScript but what if they disable their Jscript.

Form Submission
On my three development boxes I run Gentoo, BSD and Windows with practically the same PHP config along with Apache 2. A project I recently completed was just uploaded to a client's server running Apache 2 and PHP (5.2.1). I can no longer submit any data from forms: Code:

Form Submission
I need help with this form submission, i understand for submission is the easiest thing to do in php. But i just can't get this to work.

Basically i have a form in which is a question. I have given users choice of 4 answers to this question in a dropdown menu. I just want the form to recognise what answer the user has chosen and put it into a table called support and the column 'category' in it. Code:

Form Value Submission Problems
I'm having a little problem with my php in that when I
submit a value with more than one word from a form, (for example,
"Cineworld Renfrew Street"), only the first word seems to get
submitted, so that when processing it after submission, only
"Cineworld" is available. Is there a way I should be formatting form
values to prevent this?

How Do I Stop A Form Submission
I have the below code. It has a member number input box. Once a member number is entered, it validates the number against a member number in a table. If the member number is a valid number, it will submit the form, if it is not a valid number it redirects the user to a signup page. But it is not working, it is submitting always. Code:

Submission Form To Fax Machine, Is It Possible?
I got quite a question here, is it possible that from a submission form on a website the results get faxed throught the webiste directly to a fax machine? I would really appreciate any insight on this concept. And where to start.

The Woes Of A PHP Form Submission
Good evening to the skilled Ladies and Gentlemen of the PHP world. I
am fairly new to all of this but learning quickly. I have run in to a
need to remove blank lines from a form submission after its sent back
to the web server for processing by a PHP document.

I have a textarea that users can paste lines of text in to and submit
them for inclusion in to a database. Every aspect is working
perfectly, except one. No matter what I try, I cannot get rid of
simple blank lines from the form submission.

$theLines = $HTTP_POST_VARS['userSubmitted'];

This variable ($theLines) now contains the contents from the textarea.
I have tried using ...

$theLines = explode("
", $theLines);

and

$theLines = explode("
", $theLines);

But all of the blank lines are still there. If anyone has some
snippet that they would share, I would be very grateful.

Disabling Enter Key For Form Submission
Could anyone please help me with tips on how to disable a ENTER key, so that a form is submitted only when the designated button for submission is clicked.

Display Of " And ' From Form Submission
I have single and double quotes in the text field which is submitted on one page. When I display this on the next page I see ' and " in place of ' and " respectively.

Bug In IE5+ Involving Form Submission & Images With '?' In URL
I have been experiencing problems with images containing query strings in their URLs. When I land on a page containing these images having submitted a form they don't appear. I heard this is an IE bug. Is there a quickish workaround using PHP? I tried processing the form(s) with an intermediate script, then redirecting to the destination page but still no images.

PHP Form Submission Data Errors
One of my variables "link1" that is storing a bunch of urls is having random
lines being duplicated on form submission. I just recently swithed servers
from a PHP 4.3.3 to a 4.2.2 version. This error has only started appearing
on the new machine. The script worked fine on the old server and still does
on the test server. Any ideas? I think it might have to do with the ini
config. i am stumped. here is a link to my code.

Disallowing Multiple Submission Of A Form
i have a dynamic form that sends data to a mysql table. it sends data into the table according to variables that are passed in. e.g. form.php?book_title=abc

how do i block the user from sending information about the same "book_title" more than once?

Updating Text In Form Submission
I am using a text area form submission to add imformation to a html webpage, and I would like to be able to edit that text in the php form at a later date after submission.
Does anyone know how to get the origonal text back into the form text area for editting and resubmission?

Trouble With Mailing A Form Submission
I recently had to move all my php pages and MySQL db to a new server and may have overlooked a setting or two in the php.ini or somewhere else. This form worked up until the move. Here's the code:

Capturing Results Of A Form Submission
Is it possible, in PHP, to capture the resulting HTML of a submitted
form returning from a server and incorporate that HTML into say a
table, or some predefined layout?

I am trying to incorporate the resulting HTML into a layout I have
created in order to keep the look & feel of my site consistent, but
the resulting page is a plain "cheesy" page.

Encrypt Form Variables During Submission?
I've been looking around the net for a solution (I'm pretty new to php) on how to encrypt a form variable before you submit it, is this possible?

To give you an idea, I have a "change your password" type form and when the user enters their new password and clicks submit the password is sent out in the open before it's encrypted (md5) and put into the database. I'd like to encrypt it BEFORE I send it though. I plan on using SSL but I'd also like to see if what I'm trying is even possible.

Coding A Form From Email Submission
I have a customer who wants his contact page customized to be a form with questions to be answered by the person trying to contact him. When they are done filling in the form it is suppose to be emailed to him. I can not get this form to work right. Code:

Prevent URL's In Form Submission
I need a way to prevent URL's from being inserted into form fields. I have not been able to discover how to do this. Our forms are being submitted with junk URL's in the form fields. I would like to either A) Kill the form processing if URL's are posted, or B) Provide a pop up message stating that URL submissions are not allowed.

Creating A Tag Cloud Submission Form
I have recently redesigned a clip dump script and I am trying to add the ability for people to submit tags for their items. Here is what I have done so far. Code:

Multiple Attachments In An Email Sent From Form Submission
Currently the user selects a document to download, fills in their details and hits submit. They get the file emailed to them, and I get an email telling me their details and which document they downloaded.

However, I'd like the user to be able to select multiple documents (using tick boxes maybe) to be emailed in one mail. There might be 5 documents up there eventually and they could download as many of them as they want.

Would anyone be able to take a nose at the code below and tell me how it might be adapted for multiple attachments? I was thinking maybe to loop the attachment section, but I don't know how to do it, or what variable to use to come out of the loop. Code:

A Mystery (how To Mimic Form Submission With Headers)
I have this simple html form with only one field and a
submit button which uses the POST method. It works
fine.

I have been trying to learn php headers and found that
one could do exactly the same thing using headers.
Using ieHTTPHeaders v 1.6 - agreat FREE utility - one
can see the headers being sent when the form is
submitted, and then the php script with headers is
written.

It has worked fine always but in this particular case
although the headers are sent correctly .. the form
field value for some reason is not accepted by the
server. I was wondering if there are variables
(predefined variables) that are required by the server
but not being included in the headers.

Has anyone come across a similar problem?
How could one mimic the browser 100% - including all
the browsers predefined / environment variables?

Form Submission (no Button) Using PHP+cURL+ Transfer Control To Other Site
I'm trying to send data using the POST method and also have control of the browser be turned over to the website that's receiving the POST data (note that this is NOT the same as sending the data via POST method and then redirecting to the website after). I need it to work exactly like hitting the submit button on an html form, and I need it to work from PHP. It needs to POST the data to the site and also let the other site have control at the same time.

I've tried a couple of methods using both cURL and an fsocket function, but it seems like in both cases that (1) the data gets sent to the other site first, (2) then my program gets a response back, (3) and then it redirects to the other site afterwards. The data gets sort of POSTed to the other site (I get a 200 response back, and I get info showing it was posted correctly), but since the other site does not get control, it seems to dump (not save) the posted data. Code:

Including Files In Different Direcories That Include Files From Teirs
Okay, I made a simple AJAX shoutbox and I want to include it on all my pages. To insert the shoutbox I simply type <? include('/shoutbox/shoutbox.php');?> into my HTML page.

The problem is, that in /shoutbox/shoutbox.php I also include settings.php, functions.php, and some other files, and when I include /shoutbox/shoutbox.php into my index page, /shoutbox/shoutbox.php tries to call settings.php from the same folder that my index file is in, since I just 'included' it in index's source.

So my question is, is there any way, without using frames, to include a PHP file as it would be if you link directly to it in the address bar, but placed into another file in a different directory?

How Do I Hide Database Connection Files Using PHP Include Files?
I have the following at the beginning of the PHP page:

<?php require_once('Connections/conn.php'); ?>

I want to hide the connection file, "conn.php", so it's out of the web
accessible file structure. I understand putting them in the php include
directory shoudl do this. For example, let's say the directory I put them
in is /www/phpIN/, and /www/ht/ is the root web directory.

So I put "conn.php" in the inlcude directory (/www/phpIN/conn.php) and
removed it form CONNECTIONS directory.

PHP Form Submission <input Type="hidden"> Security Issues?
Someone has said to me that when using a form (method = post), that storing data in "hidden" tags

ie <input type="hidden" name="myField" value="something">
means that the user can set the value to whatever they like

So my questions are:

1. How would they do this
2. How can I stop it
3. Do I have to abandon the hidden values and go with sessions?

Include Files
I have installed PHP and MySQL on an Apache web server so that I can test our web site out before posting it to our ISP. However, when I try to use <? include("file.inc"); ?> to output text that changes frequently, Nothing appears on the test setup described above. On the ISP setup it works like a dream.

With this in mind I think I may have overlooked some config setting. If you think this is the case please could you advise me on which one it may be.

How To Include .cgi Files
How can i include .cgi files in php pages? I don't really want to convert my pages into html or shtml cos' then i'll have to do a lot of rework.

Is It Possible To Include Txt Files?
Is it possible to include txt-files in a php document....sort of like SSI ? i found one code on another forum that should do this...but it will not work...

<?php
$datei = fopen test.txt", "r");
$array = file($datei);
echo $array[0];?>

is this possible at all ?

Include Files
Is there anything wrong with using:- include_once "header.php";

where the header is just html, and include "header.php"; would have done?

PHP Include Files
I am looking for a better way to organize my include files. Currently, I have them in a folder, but in the pages that use them, I end up doing include statements for each file.

The question is, is there a way to reference the folder name, which automatically will pull all the files in that folder. That way, I can simply include the folder, this will simplify my changes!

Another Way To Include Files?
in the file 'index_body.tpl', I want the variable 'GAMESLIST' to include the file 'includes/getgames.php'. Is there another way to get the file without displaying it twice? Code:

Include Files
does anyone have a better way to include a lot of file in one page?

i got a page with a lot of scripts and everything I'm going to use one i have to include it so my page is staring to look like this

include_once($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'/function/header.php');
include_once($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'/function/up.php');
include_once($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'/function/ad.php');
include_once($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'/function/seven.php');

Include Files In A Class?
Can this be done?

class dbstuff { function dbstuff() {}

// Include other functions

include_once("ofunc.inc");}

Include Files And Overhead
I have a medium sized ecommerce website which I have written using PHP and
MySQL and I have a number of include files with some of them being included
by all pages of the site and a few only included as and when required.

I was wondering if I could compile all my include files into one large
include and then include them from all pages or is this not advisable as the
include file alone could end up being around 1000 lines of code.

Would this have a noticeable affect on my server when serving up pages to
the Internet because of all the extra lines of code being imported into all
my PHP files?

What is the maximum number of lines that is recommended for an include file?
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Trouble With Include Files
Here's my files and directories ...

util_fns.inc
hello.php
mirror_site/util_fns.inc
mirror_site/hello.php

On hello.php, I have the line

require("util_fns.inc");

However, I would like the behavior to be that the included file is the
one that lives at the same level as "hello.php". I'm noticing that the
"mirror_site/hello.php" file is including the "util_fns.inc" top level
file when I want it to include the "mirror_site/util_fns.inc" file.
How can I enforce this behavior?

I would prefer not to create two separate hello.php files.

Best Organization Of PHP Include Files?
In my PHP code, I typically break my functions into groups (usually based on
the data type they operate on), and then include the files, i.e.:

require_once("string_functions.inc");
require_once("large_integer.inc");
etc.

The included files never contain any code that gets executed directly (it is
all in functions, which are then called from the code in the page that is
doing the including).

I've always found PHP to be very fast, but in large projects a large number
of files with a lot of functions could be included. I have to assume that
the PHP interpreter requires some time to parse each include file.

Questions:

a)How inefficient is this? (I.e. how much parsing does the interpeter do of
functions that are included but not yet called?).

b)What is the best paradigm for managing include files?

Paths To Include Files
I have site that uses a include file for its pages. Recently i had to create a folder with different pages, but had to create the a include file with the same code but specifically for the those files that are in a directory. If i a create another directory in that directory, it means i have to create another include file specifically for files at that level.

Is there a way for me to eliminate this problem. Creating the include files with the same code for different folders is going to become very unmanagable. Code:

Include Files Problem
I am having a problem including files. I can include a file but the includes in that file get messed up because everything is in a different directory.

Anyone have a practical approach to setting a reference point for including files?

Like define the main folder of your project as your reference point somehow and use that?

Like: include($project_root_dirc.'file.php');

I don't know what i can do to get this to work practically..

Php Include Files From A Folder
I want to make a folder filled with blog posts by date. Each file will be like 20071113.php and 20071031.php basically the date they were written 2007, 10 for october, and 31 for the day. But each will be notated like that so that the number is always increasing.

How would I make a php include function as to take the last ten highest numbers and add it to a page? (Basically the last ten posts by date) and How would I include more than one post per date?

Securing My Include Files
What is a simple but effective way to make it so my include files can only be executed from a page on my website. I do not have access to the php.ini file so I cannot secure it that way. Basically my layout is /root_web and /root_web/includes/.

I want to make it so that a person could just goto /root_web/includes/some_file, I want the files to be only access by files already in /root_web.

How To Include Files From Another Domain Name.
Having had successfully relying upon .php pages to call in several html files and perl files from another domain name, the isp has disabled them. The first domain is my own top levle one and the toehr is a sub domain of that. I own both domains.

So they won;t any longer let me use:

<?php include 'http://mydomain .com/headers_and_footers/thechrissystem/header.html' ?>

How else can this be done.

Indenting Using <? Include ?> Files In Html...
Recently starting php codeing, and absolutely love using php includes throughout my normal html code to make things easier/logical etc when working on it. However I have a slight intending issue: using nested tables a lot, the results are often that I have aroundabout 15 spaces in front of stuff. Now, when including a file, I have to put 15 spaces in front of everything in that file...*yuck!* is there any way to get around this?

I hope this makes any sense...

Perhaps there's some-thing/place someone know about that touches the indenting topic...?