On 19 Oct 2011 at 22:27, Simon J Welsh <simon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
> You saved action.php as a RTF file rather than a plain text file. Resave it as
> a plain text file.
Sounds like you should also use a text editor rather that Word or similar for editing your program files. Use Notepad or whatever they have or Windows machines.
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Cheers -- Tim
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