On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:17 PM, David Robley <robleyd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tim Dunphy wrote:
>
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I was just wondering if I could get some opinions on a snippet of
>> code which breaks a php web page.
>>
>> First the working code which is basically an html form being echoed by
>> php:
>>
>> if ($output_form) {
>>
>> echo '<br /><br /><form action="sendemail.php>" method="post" >
<form action="sendemail.php>"
should be:
<form action="sendemail.php" ...
>> <label for="subject">Subject of email:</label><br />
>> <input id="subject" name="subject" type="text" size="30" /><br />
>> <label for="elvismail">Body of email:</label><br />
>> <textarea id="elvismail" name="elvismail" rows="8"
>> cols="40"></textarea><br />
>> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" />
>> </form>';
>>
>>
>> }
>>
>> However if I change the form action to this, it breaks the page
>> resulting in a white screen of death:
>>
>>
>> if ($output_form) {
>>
>> echo '<br /><br /><form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>"
>> method="post" >
>> <label for="subject">Subject of email:</label><br />
>> <input id="subject" name="subject" type="text" size="30" /><br />
>> <label for="elvismail">Body of email:</label><br />
>> <textarea id="elvismail" name="elvismail" rows="8"
>> cols="40"></textarea><br />
>> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" />
>> </form>';
>>
>>
>> }
>>
>> Reverting the one line to this:
>>
>> echo '<br /><br /><form action="sendemail.php" method="post" >
>>
>> gets it working again. Now I don't know if it's an unbalanced quote
>> mark or what's going on. But I'd appreciate any advice you may have.
>>
>>
>> Best,
>> tim
>>
> If you check your apache log you'll probably see an error message. But the
> problem seems to be that your string you are trying to echo is enclosed in
> single quotes, and contains a string in <?php tags. Try something like
>
> echo '<br /><br /><form action="' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '"
> method="post"> ...etc
>
>
>
> Cheers
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>
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