On 20/10/2011, at 10:24 AM, hanson zhou wrote:
> I have the following in a file called "hello.php" in my htdocs directory
> (Apache webroot).
>
> <form action="action.php" method="post">
> <p>Your name: <input type="text" name="name" /></p>
> <p>Your age: <input type="text" name="age" /></p>
> <p><input type="submit" /></p>
> </form>
>
> as well as the following in a file "action.php", also in the same directory.
>
>
> Hi <?php echo htmlspecialchars($_POST['name']); ?>.
> You are <?php echo (int)$_POST['age']; ?> years old.
>
> When I click on the submit button of the form in hello.php, it should say
> something like:
> "Hi Hanson. You are 33 years old." But instead of just saying that it also
> appends a bunch of junk at the beginning like this:
>
> {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fcharset0
> Arial;}} {\*\generator Msftedit 5.41.21.2509;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs20 Hi
> hanson .\par You are 33 years old.\par } �
>
> Can someone help me with this? Why does my forms reply from action.php
> contain so much junk? I have a Windows installation of PHP and Apache.
>
> thanks,
> -Hanson
You saved action.php as a RTF file rather than a plain text file. Resave it as a plain text file.
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