PHP not working?

**Musicman** · 02-18-2008, 01:46 AM

Hi,

having a closer look, I see

Code:

<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

<head>
<meta name=Title content="&lt;">
<meta name=Keywords content="">
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=macintosh">
<meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document>
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11">
<meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 11">
<link rel=File-List href="mail_files/filelist.xml">

It seems you are on a macintosh. Dont you have simpletext or something else that allows you to write a text of, say 100 characters and results in a file no larger than 100 bytes?

Musicman

**momtartin** · 02-18-2008, 08:18 PM

Originally Posted by Musicman

Hi,

having a closer look, I see

Code:

<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

<head>
<meta name=Title content="&lt;">
<meta name=Keywords content="">
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=macintosh">
<meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document>
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11">
<meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 11">
<link rel=File-List href="mail_files/filelist.xml">

It seems you are on a macintosh. Dont you have simpletext or something else that allows you to write a text of, say 100 characters and results in a file no larger than 100 bytes?

Musicman

Yea I do, should I try that and see if that simplifies things at all?

**momtartin** · 02-20-2008, 09:37 PM

Alright, here is the updated file:
http://www.tomartin.net/Email.html

**Musicman** · 02-21-2008, 01:46 AM

Hi,

this is your text file now

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
  <title></title>
  <meta name="Generator" content="Cocoa HTML Writer">
  <meta name="CocoaVersion" content="949">
  <style type="text/css">
    p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica}
  </style>
</head>
<body>
<p class="p1">&lt;?</p>
<p class="p1">mail("tom@tomartin.net", "test message", "just a test", "From: webserver@tomartin.com");</p>
<p class="p1">echo "mail sent...";</p>
<p class="p1">?&gt;<span class="Apple-converted-space">Â </span></p>
</body>
</html>

This is what it should read (and how it looks in the browser)

Code:

<?
mail("tom@tomartin.net", "test message", "just a test", "From: webserver@tomartin.com");
echo "mail sent...";
?>

Maybe you should try to write a "text" rather than "html" file in the first place, to keep software from doing things that hinder rather than help

Musicman

**momtartin** · 02-21-2008, 11:17 PM

Originally Posted by Musicman

Hi,

this is your text file now

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
  <title></title>
  <meta name="Generator" content="Cocoa HTML Writer">
  <meta name="CocoaVersion" content="949">
  <style type="text/css">
    p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica}
  </style>
</head>
<body>
<p class="p1">&lt;?</p>
<p class="p1">mail("tom@tomartin.net", "test message", "just a test", "From: webserver@tomartin.com");</p>
<p class="p1">echo "mail sent...";</p>
<p class="p1">?&gt;<span class="Apple-converted-space">Â </span></p>
</body>
</html>

This is what it should read (and how it looks in the browser)

Code:

<?
mail("tom@tomartin.net", "test message", "just a test", "From: webserver@tomartin.com");
echo "mail sent...";
?>

Maybe you should try to write a "text" rather than "html" file in the first place, to keep software from doing things that hinder rather than help

Musicman

Are you saying I need to make it as a rtf or .txt file and upload it? Cuz if I do that, it just downloads when I click on it. As evidenced here:
http://tomartin.net/mail.rtf

**Musicman** · 02-22-2008, 01:44 AM

Hi,

make it a txt (rtf also adds stuff to the file that you would not want, just different stuff), upload it, and rename it to php on the server

Musicman

**momtartin** · 02-23-2008, 12:19 AM

Originally Posted by Musicman

Hi,

make it a txt (rtf also adds stuff to the file that you would not want, just different stuff), upload it, and rename it to php on the server

Musicman

I don't think I quite understand. I did what you said (Changed the rtf format to a txt format, then uploaded the txt file, and changed the extension to a php file).
http://www.tomartin.net/mail.php
That is what shows up though. What did I do wrong? Haha, this is more complicated than I was thinking it would be

**momtartin** · 02-23-2008, 01:23 AM

Originally Posted by momtartin

I don't think I quite understand. I did what you said (Changed the rtf format to a txt format, then uploaded the txt file, and changed the extension to a php file).
http://www.tomartin.net/mail.php
That is what shows up though. What did I do wrong? Haha, this is more complicated than I was thinking it would be

Edit, nevermind, that works now when I click on that. So should I just try retyping all the original PHP script into a txt document and then try sending an e-mail from my contact form? Or is there another step I need to take?

**Musicman** · 02-24-2008, 04:09 PM

Hi,

strange... it complains about stuff in lines 7 through 9 although the entire file should be exactly 4 lines long

I still believe the best program to write php text is one that does not even know about documents, html, rtf or anything like that - just plain text

Musicman

**momtartin** · 02-24-2008, 10:19 PM

Originally Posted by Musicman

Hi,

strange... it complains about stuff in lines 7 through 9 although the entire file should be exactly 4 lines long

I still believe the best program to write php text is one that does not even know about documents, html, rtf or anything like that - just plain text

Musicman

I wrote that in Text Edit on my mac. What program do you recommend? And what should I do now? I mean it works if I click on it, and it sends me an e-mail, but when I tried to upload my Flash file and change that txt file to a PHP file, no message was sent.

**Musicman** · 02-25-2008, 01:49 AM

Hi,

that mail.php on your server still seems to contain rtf. I am not used with a mac at all, but I recall a friend mentioning simpletext. I will ask her
Where did you put your flash form (the swf, not the fla)?

Musicman

**momtartin** · 02-25-2008, 12:24 PM

Originally Posted by Musicman

Hi,

that mail.php on your server still seems to contain rtf. I am not used with a mac at all, but I recall a friend mentioning simpletext. I will ask her
Where did you put your flash form (the swf, not the fla)?

Musicman

Simpletext was replaced with Text Edit on macs. Though I'm wondering, should I have placed my php file in the same folder as my swf file? The way I have it set up is as follows (this is the local file setup, I'll show the remote site later, I have to go to work now):

Should I put that mail.txt in the same folder as my SWF?

**Musicman** · 02-26-2008, 01:39 PM

Hi,

it is usually good practice to put the swf and the php into the same folder and just refer to it by "mail.php" (not http://www.yourserver.com/mail.php - this causes problems when people visit yourserver.com instead of www.yourserver.com)
In your particular case you might have
<embed src="folder/movie.swf" ....>
in your index.html file. In that situation the plain "mail.php" in your movie refers to the folder with the index file, not the one with the swf

Musicman

**momtartin** · 02-27-2008, 12:18 AM

Originally Posted by Musicman

Hi,

it is usually good practice to put the swf and the php into the same folder and just refer to it by "mail.php" (not http://www.yourserver.com/mail.php - this causes problems when people visit yourserver.com instead of www.yourserver.com)
In your particular case you might have
<embed src="folder/movie.swf" ....>
in your index.html file. In that situation the plain "mail.php" in your movie refers to the folder with the index file, not the one with the swf

Musicman

So I ended up just calling the customer service line, and apparently they had my domain on a server which didn't like PHP, and only used SMPT. So once they switched it over, I got it working, so we're all good. Thanks for your assistance though, I appreciate it.

**BeerMe** · 03-02-2008, 06:42 AM

Sorry if this has already been covered but theres alot of posts to go through.

ok so actionscript 2 flash CS3

Code:

var senderLoad:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
var recieveLoad:LoadVars = new LoadVars();

Sender.onRelease = function() {
	senderLoad.theName = theName.text;
	senderLoad.theGladiatusName = theGladiatusName.text;
	senderLoad.theEmail = theEmail.text;
	senderLoad.theSubject = theSubject.text;
	senderLoad.theMessage = theMessage.text;
	senderLoad.sendAndLoad("http://ultimate-signatures.com/form.php", recieveLoad);
}

recieveLoad.onLoad = function(){
	if(this.sentOK) {
		_root.gotoAndStop(300);
	}
	else{
		_root.gotoAndStop(305);
	}
}

Returns - Error opening URL 'http://ultimate-signatures.com/form.php'

the url is correct i have also tried putting within a subfolder and targeting that too.

PHP

Code:

<?PHP 

$to = "thelegion@ultimate-signatures.com";
$subject = "The Legion Contact Forum";
$message = "Name: " . $theName; 
$message .= "\nGladiatusName: " . $theGladiatusName;
$message .= "\nEmail: " . $theEmail;
$message .= "\n\nSubject: " . $theSubject;
$message .= "\nMessage: " . $theMessage;
$headers = "From: $theEmail";
$headers .= "\nReply-To: $theEmail";

sentOK = mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);

echo "sentOK=" . $sentOK;

?>

Please can somebody help me ;

Thanks in advance.

Andy

**BADGROOVY** · 05-29-2008, 10:20 PM

HI, If i send to flash vars this way, i have no problem seeing them in a dynamic text box :

PHP Code:


$myTotal=45;

echo "&myTotal=$myTotal&";

But actually i get the $myTotal value from a POST:
PHP Code:

PHP Code:


$myTotal=$_POST['total'];

echo "&myTotal=$myTotal&";

And this way i get no value in my dynamic text box

Any ideas?

I´ve already search the forum ,with no clues.

**villain2** · 06-05-2008, 09:56 AM

Originally Posted by BADGROOVY

HI, If i send to flash vars this way, i have no problem seeing them in a dynamic text box :

PHP Code:


$myTotal=45;

echo "&myTotal=$myTotal&";

But actually i get the $myTotal value from a POST:
PHP Code:

PHP Code:


$myTotal=$_POST['total'];

echo "&myTotal=$myTotal&";

And this way i get no value in my dynamic text box

Any ideas?

I´ve already search the forum ,with no clues.

Shouldn't you be getting your variable from $_REQUEST['total']?
Did you check the php file on it's own to see if it output $myTotal as the value in the name/value pair string?

**BADGROOVY** · 06-05-2008, 11:47 AM

Originally Posted by villain2

Shouldn't you be getting your variable from $_REQUEST['total']?

Yes, i use $_REQUEST.

Originally Posted by villain2

Did you check the php file on it's own to see if it output $myTotal as the value in the name/value pair string?

Yes, its echo´s fine.

But it doesnt appear in Flash.

But actually Musicman gave me a nice tip that works , i already have the values in my php, and with flash i was trying to call them again to the server, so instead of that i use FLASH VARS.

THKS ANYWAY.

**55chris2303** · 11-07-2008, 07:15 PM

Hey Guys and Girls,

Im new to all this forum discussion thing so go easy on me please :P

anywhos, im currently studying IT and our brief wants us to design and create a website, me being good with site design i found it easy, until my online php application failed to work, keep getting an blank screen when i load it up:

(Asterix's are hiding my email from spambots just so you know)

<?php
function clean($data) {
$data = trim(stripslashes(strip_tags($data)));
return $data;
}
$exploits = "/(content-type|bcc:|cc:|document.cookie|onclick|onload)/i";
foreach ($_POST as $key => $val) {
$c[$key] = clean($val);

if (preg_match($exploits, $val)) {
exit("<p>No exploits, please!</p>");
}
}

$show_form = true;
$error_msg = NULL;

if (isset($c['submit'])) {
if (empty($c['name']) || empty($c['email']) || empty($c['comments'])) {
$error_msg .= "Name, e-mail and comments are required fields. \n";
} elseif (strlen($c['name']) > 50) {
$error_msg .= "The name field is limited at 15 characters. Your first name will do! \n";
} elseif (!ereg("^[A-Za-z' -]", $c['name'])) {
$error_msg .= "The name field must not contain special characters. \n";
} elseif (!ereg("^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,6})$",strtolower($c['email']))) {
$error_msg .= "That is not a valid e-mail address. \n";
}

if ($error_msg == NULL) {
$show_form = false;

if (!empty($c['Other Contact']) && !ereg("^(http|https)", $c['Other Contact'])) {
$c['url'] = "Other Contact:" . $c['Other Contact'];
}

$subject = "Online Application";

$message = "Online Application Form:";
foreach ($c as $key => $val) {
$message .= ucwords($key) . ": $val \n";
}
$message .= "IP: {$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']} \n";
$message .= "Browser: {$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']}";

if (strstr($_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'], "Win")) {
$headers = "From: chris@5*******";
$headers .= "Reply-To: {$c['email']}";
} else {
$headers = "From: Online Application Form <chris@************> \n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: {$c['email']}";
}

$recipient = "chris@***********";

if (mail($recipient,$subject,$message,$headers)) {
echo "<p>Your mail was successfully sent.</p>";
} else {
echo "<p>Your mail could not be sent this time.</p>";
}
}
}
if (!isset($c['submit']) || $show_form == true) {
function get_data($var) {
global $c;
if (isset($c[$var])) {
echo $c[$var];
}
}

if ($error_msg != NULL) {
echo "<p><strong style='color: red;'>ERROR:</strong><br />";
echo nl2br($error_msg) . "</p>";
}
?> <p>Online Application TEST FOR CHRIS'S IT WORK!</p>
<p>*Indicates Mandatory Field</p>
<form action="" method="post">
<p>FULL Name
<label>
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" value="<?php get_data("name"); ?>" />
</label>
</p>
<p>Email Address
<label><input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="<?php get_data("email"); ?> donthaveemail@dont_have_email.com" />
</label>
</p>
<p>Telephone Number
<label>
<input type="text" name="telephoneNumber" id="Other Contact" value="<?php get_data("telephoneNumber"); ?>" />
</label>
</p>
<p>Where did you hear about the election?
<label><input type="text" name="reasonForapplication" id="subject" value="<?php get_data("reasonForapplication"); ?>" />
</label>
</p>
<p>Referance No.1
<textarea name="References" id="references"><?php get_data("references"):?>
</textarea>
</p>
<p>Why You Think You Should Be Elected:

<label>
<textarea name="Manifesto" cols="70" rows="20" id="manifesto"><?php get_data("manifesto"); ?>
</textarea>
</label>
<br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Send" />
</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
</form> <p>
<?php
}
?>

**unicycle** · 11-08-2008, 10:55 AM

Originally Posted by 55chris2303

Hey Guys and Girls, Im new to all this forum discussion thing so go easy on me please :P

Hi, I'm old but back after a long time.
I'm not going to be hard on you, but also I'm not going to find where your poroblem is. But try:

PHP Code:


error_reporting(E_ALL);

at the very first line of your script.
it should prevent

Originally Posted by 55chris2303

getting an blank screen

Or -if your HTTP-server is Apache- you can also put this debug switch in a .htaccess file

Code:

# php_value display_errors Off
php_value display_errors On

just some other tips:

PHP Code:


<?php

$recipient = "chris@asteriskguru*com";

// and

if (mail($recipient,$subject,$message,$headers)) { }

// In case you use variables only once...

// then I would put those field as hard as possible, so:

if (mail("chris@dom.tld", $subject, $message, $headers)) { }

// but also counts for $subject and especially $headers

?>



// Lack of an defined action parameter will usually default on the script itself.

<form action="" method="post">

// But with "" as value, I would not rely on that. so maybe:

<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">

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