Bastien Koert On 2012-06-30, at 8:00 PM, Tim Dunphy <bluethundr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to get the hang of php using some examples that I found > in a book. I've been making progress lately, but one thing has me a > bit stumped. > > > In an HTML form that I am echoing through PHP I would like to embed > smaller chunks of php in the code like so: > > > echo '<br /><br /> > <form method="post" action="sendemail.php"> > <label for="subject">Subject of email:</label><br /> > <input id="subject" name="subject" type="text" value="<?php > echo $subject;?>"><br /> > <label for="elvismail">Body of email:</label><br /> > <textarea id="elvismail" name="elvismail" rows="8" > cols="40">"<?php echo $text;?>" </textarea><br /> > <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" /> > </form>'; > > > > If I do embed the smaller chunks of php in the form the way I've just > shown you the script instantly breaks and the web page shows only a > white screen of death. > > And I see this in the web server logs > > [Sat Jun 30 19:12:54 2012] [notice] child pid 7769 exit signal > Segmentation fault (11) > > > If I remove the smaller bits of php as I show here the web page starts > working again > > > echo '<br /><br /> > <form method="post" action="sendemail.php"> > <label for="subject">Subject of email:</label><br /> > <input id="subject" name="subject" type="text"><br /> > <label for="elvismail">Body of email:</label><br /> > <textarea id="elvismail" name="elvismail" rows="8" > cols="40"></textarea><br /> > <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" /> > </form>'; > > > Here, I'll show the entire script so you can get a better sense of what it does > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en"> > <head> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> > <title>Make Me Elvis - Send Email</title> > <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" /> > </head> > <body> > <img src="blankface.jpg" width="161" height="350" alt="" > style="float:right" /> > <img name="elvislogo" src="elvislogo.gif" width="229" height="32" > border="0" alt="Make Me Elvis" /> > <p><strong>Private:</strong> For Elmer's use ONLY<br /><br > Write and send an email to mailing list members.</p> > > <?php > > error_reporting(E_ALL); > ini_set('display_errors', 'On'); > > if (isset($_POST['Submit'])) { > > $from = 'bluethundr@xxxxxxxxxxxx'; > $subject = $_POST['subject']; > $text = $_POST['elvismail']; > $output_form = "false"; > > if (empty($subject) && empty($text)) { > echo 'You forgot the email subject and body.<br />'; > $output_form = 'true'; > > } > > > if (empty($subject) && !empty($text)) { > echo 'You forgot the email subject.<br />'; > $output_form="true"; > > } > > if ((!empty($subject)) && empty($text)) { > > echo 'You forgot the email body text.<br />'; > $output_form="true"; > > > } > > } else { > > $output_form = 'true'; > > } > > > > if ($output_form == 'true') { > > > echo '<br /><br /> > <form method="post" action="sendemail.php"> > <label for="subject">Subject of email:</label><br /> > <input id="subject" name="subject" type="text"><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>'; > > > } else { > > $dbc = mysqli_connect('127.0.0.1', 'admin', 'secret > > ', 'elvis_store') > or die('Error connecting to MySQL server.'); > > $query = "SELECT * FROM email_list"; > $result = mysqli_query($dbc, $query) > or die('Error querying database.'); > > while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)){ > $to = $row['email']; > $first_name = $row['first_name']; > $last_name = $row['last_name']; > $msg = "Dear $first_name $last_name,\n$text"; > mail($to, $subject, $msg, 'From:' . $from); > echo 'Email sent to: ' . $to . '<br />'; > } > > mysqli_close($dbc); > > } > > > ?> > > </body> > </html> > > > I was hoping that someone might be out there that could understand > this problem and point out where I'm going wrong. > > Thanks! > > -- > GPG me!! > > gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > You can't have an echo inside and echo. Properly quote and concatenate the additional echo and you'll be fine -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
