HTML - Submitting A Form

ooh, its been a long time since i had to ask a question in here.

i have a form that just wants to redirect to the home page, no matter what the action is.
HTML Code:

<form id="contactForm" method="post" action="index.phtml?file=contact.phtml" enctype="multipart/form-data">
          <input class="input" name="contact_name" type="text" onfocus="if(this.value == 'Name:') { this.value = ''; }" onblur="if(this.value == '') { this.value = 'Name:' }" value="<?php echo (!empty($_POST['contact_name']) && $_POST['contact_name']) ? $_POST['contact_name'] : 'Name:'; ?>" />
          <input class="input" name="contact_phone" type="text" onfocus="if(this.value == 'Phone:') { this.value = ''; }" onblur="if(this.value == '') { this.value = 'Phone:' }"  value="<?php echo (!empty($_POST['contact_phone'])) ? $_POST['contact_phone']: 'Phone:'; ?>" />
          <input class="input" name="contact_email" type="text" onfocus="if(this.value == 'E-Mail:') { this.value = ''; }" onblur="if(this.value == '') { this.value = 'E-Mail:' }"  value="<?php echo (!empty($_POST['contact_email'])) ? $_POST['contact_email']: 'E-Mail:'; ?>" />
          <textarea name="contact_message" cols="1" rows="1" onfocus="if(this.value == 'Message:') { this.value = ''; }"  onblur="if(this.value=='') this.value='Message:'"  /><?php echo (!empty($_POST['contact_message'])) ? $_POST['contact_message'] : 'Message:'; ?></textarea>
          <a href="#" class="right link1" onclick="document.getElementById('contactForm').submit()">Send</a>
          <a href="#" class="right link1" onclick="document.getElementById('contactForm').reset()">Clear</a>
          <input name="ContactSubmit" type="hidden" />
      </form>

and its not submitting.

i think i messed up the link submits, what url shoudl be in there, when i put in index.phtml?file=contact.phtml it stays on the page but doesnt process.

also, is the enctype correct for this type of post?

also my doc type is xhtml strict, but i am going to have to satisfy a couple errors as far as that is concerned as well, its complaining about Quote:
document type does not allow element "input" here; missing one of "p", "h1", "h2", "h3", "h4", "h5", "h6", "div", "pre", "address", "fieldset", "ins", "del" start-tag
when i change the action even to itself which is /contact.phtml it still redirects to the home page.

i have to ask it, what obvious fundamental have i forgotton?

EDIT,
ok it must be in the link submits, when i delete the href tag out of it completely, it seems to be processing. i cant figure out why the # sign was in there, whats supposed to be there for a link submit? i trued a url and that didnt work right

I want an area on the front page of my website, to display what someone has submitted in a form, (their name, comment and the current date), and I want it to update every 10 seconds.

Is this possible in HTML, if so, could anyone provide the code ?

It submits in every other browser BUT IE... I just finished this website and it works everywhere except IE... I don't get it!!!

I'm using image inputs to submit the form. Is that bad?
It obviously sends me to the next page, but why isn't the data going through?

the form exists on this webpage http://awesomebattle.com/compare.php it's the frame with the two random characters in it...

here is the code.

Code:

<form method="post" name="vs" id="vs" action="vs.php" >
<table width="100%">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top"  width="30%" bgcolor="#ff9900" >


<font size="5"><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=Captain America" alt="Detailed Info" title="Detailed Info" target="_blank">Captain America</a><br><input type="image" id="w" name="w"  VALUE="l" border="0" width="300" height="300" src="pic/1278364692captain america.jpg"></font></td>
<td valign="top" width="40%" align="center"><img width="150" border="0" src="pic/1277747612fight.png"><br>
<input type="image" id="w" name="w"  VALUE="d" border="0" src="draw.png" >
<br>
<input type="image" id="w" name="w"  VALUE="" border="0" src="idk.png" >



<table width="300" bgcolor="ff9900" ><tr><td colspan="2" align=center ><font size=1>1 vote</font></td></tr></table>
</td>
<td align="center" valign="top" width="30%" bgcolor="#ff9900" >
<font size="5"><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=Polaris" alt="Detailed Info" title="Detailed Info" target="_blank">Polaris</a>, <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=Killer Bee" alt="Detailed Info" title="Detailed Info" target="_blank">Killer Bee</a>, <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=Haku" alt="Detailed Info" title="Detailed Info" target="_blank">Haku</a><br><input type="image" id="w" name="w"  VALUE="r" border="0" width="150" height="150" src="pic/1278365600Polaris.jpg"><br><input type="image" id="w" name="w"  VALUE="r" border="0" width="150" height="150" src="pic/1277849407killerbee.jpg"><input type="image" id="w" name="w"  VALUE="r" border="0" width="150" height="150" src="pic/1278365133haku.jpg"></font></td>
</tr>
</table>
<br>

<a href="javascript:toggle_visibility()" ><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ff9900" size=2 >Leave some commentary for others to see!</font></a>
<div id="ads" ></div>
<div  id="notes" style="display:none;" align=center>
<table width="400" bgcolor="#ff9900"><tr><td align=center>
Name <input id="name" type="text" name="name"  VALUE="" maxlength="30"  size=15 alt="Tell us your name" title="Tell us your name" ><br>
<font size=2>Commentary</font>
<textarea name="comments" cols="40" rows="5">
</textarea><br><font size=1>When you pick a winner the comment will be submitted.</font>
</td></tr></table>
</div>
<input type="hidden" id="compare"  name="compare"  VALUE="0" />
<input type="hidden" id="rights"  name="rights"  VALUE="3" />
<input type="hidden" id="lefts"  name="lefts"  VALUE="1" />
</form>

I'm thinking it's a

I hate I.E. I really do. So many people use IE so I have to make this work with my site.

Hi all,

I'm looking for ways, how I can avoid multiple form submissions, when a user repeatedly (intentionally or not) refresh the browser (F5 button) after submitting a form?

The input in my form is simply an email address. Nothing else. It is used for forgot password function.

I have tried unset or set the $_POST['email'] to empty, but it doesn't help.

Is there a clever way to do this?

Is there a connection between a form's "submit button" <input type="submit"> and it's "action/method/enctype" attributes <form action="url" method="post" enctype="text/plain">?

Is there a difference between "submitting" a form and "posting" a form or is it all interconnected? Does the form's "action/method/enctype" attributes have to be set to allow the "submit button" to do anything? Do the "action/method/enctype" attributes have to be triggered by a "submit button"?

Once I understand how this all works, I want to run some checks on user entries/selections in a form when the user clicks the submit button. These checks will be carried out by a JavaScript function. If there are problems with the user's selections/entries I want to;
1) suspend submission/posting
2) alert the user to the errors they have made via an alert box
3) allow the user to make corrections, then they click submit again
4) test the user's selections/entries again
5) if user's selections/entries are now OK, submit/post the form data or if still not OK go back to step 2 above.

Any hints on how to do this? Maybe I should forget the submit button and use a command button? Is there a "submit" method I can place in a JavaScript function?

Hi all,

I have a query that I hope somebody can help with as my site has been brought to a standstill because of this problem.
I have just posted the new version of my site online and I have a folder below the domain root which contains things like database info, form scripts etc.

When I process the form I get a 404 error. the action is something like

HTML Code:

action="../includes/process_form.php"

There is no need to any output from these files as they process the information and direct to the relevant files above the domain root using php header scripts.

At the beginning of most of my files I have the following
PHP Code:
<?php
$security = 'secure';
require('../includes/default.php');
require('../includes/error_handlers.php');
require('../includes/db.php');
?>

and there is no problem with these whatsoever.
I had all of the scripts working fine when I tested them at
domainroot.co.uk/take2/public/
domainroot.co.uk/take2/includes/

Does anybody have any ideas why this is happening

Any help would be appreciated
John

What I want to have on my page is have what is submitted on a form to show up on the website. like a guestbook... How can I do that?

Hi all,

I am currently trying to add a form onto a site. Everything looks fine visually, due to the aid of W3. I would like the information the user inputs, to get submitted to an email account inbox. That can be done cant it?
I would like a page to come up to explain they have submitted there entry too. If anyone knows where I can find this out, that would be brilliant.


(Below is what I have so far)

Thanks
Tom



<div id="submit">
<form>

<form name="input" action="mailto:XXXXXXX@beeb.net"
method="get">

County:
<input type="text" name="county">
<br><br>
Town/City:
<input type="text" name="town">
<br><br>
Restaurant:
<input type="text" name="restaurant">
<br><br>

<input type="radio" name="level" value="star_1"> 1 star
<br>
<input type="radio" name="level" value="star_2"> 2 stars
<br>
<input type="radio" name="level" value="star_3"> 3 stars
<br>
<input type="radio" name="level" value="star_4"> 4 stars
<br>
<input type="radio" name="level" value="star_5"> 5 stars
<br><br><br>

Name:
<input type="text" name="name">
<br>
Email:
<input type="text" name="name">
<br><br><br>

<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

I'm able to create a form with a submit button.
http://pastebin.com/nCnAiKZJ


What I would like to be able to do is take this table/form and allow it to be viewed. I'm going to see if i can mail it to myself, but I would like to be able to create some kind of something for every submission. Ideally, I would like this some kind of something to exist on the website. This some kind of something would be clicked on to bring up a view of the filled in table/form.

Hello,

This may be a stupid question, but does anybody know how, if it is possible to submit a form by using just a link? In this situation, I want to submit a form without using a submit button.

If anyone can help, that would be great.

Hi guys

I trying to create a html page with php that links to an SQL DB,I currently have 2 separate forms that submit information to the DB when I click the button relating to that form.I am trying to create it so that I have one submit button and when I click that it will enter the information from both forms into that DB.

Here is my code

(HTML Page)

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>update database</title>
</head>
<body>
<form method="post" action="update.php">
title:<br/>
<input type="text" name="solution" size="70"/></br>
<input type="submit" value="Insert saved solution here"/>
</form>

<form method="post" action="update.php">
title:<br/>
<input type="text" name="problem" size="70"/></br>
<input type="submit" value="State the type of problem occurred"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>

(Seperate PHP Page)

Code:

<?php
$solution = $_POST['solution'];


mysql_connect ("localhost", "root","password")  or die (mysql_error());
mysql_select_db ("heskdb");

$query="insert into hesk_std_replies (solution) values ('$solution')";
mysql_query($query) or die ('error updating database');

echo"database updated with:".$solution;

$problem = $_POST['problem'];


mysql_connect ("localhost", "root","password")  or die (mysql_error());
mysql_select_db ("heskdb");

$query="insert into hesk_std_replies (problem) values ('$problem')";
mysql_query($query) or die ('error updating database');

echo"database updated with:".$problem;

?>

Any help would be much appreciated

Thanks

Hi, im fairly new to html, and was wondering how i would go about making a script to submit codes like on worldwaralliancecodes.com

any help would be greatly appreciated.
ive been searching for hours on google, but dont know what exactly to search for.

When you type your email address into the text field and press submit, nothing happens. Here is my form code. I think everything is right on the database side... I didn't write it, or this, but I need to fix it xD I think the code was written in frontpage (I'm a notepad coder, myself), so there's some garbage in there. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks, Sondra

Code:

<form method="POST" name="e-newsletter" action="../librarynews-submit.asp">
<p>Email <input type="text" name="email" size="25"></p>
<hr>
<p>
<input type="checkbox" name="teen" value="yes">Check this box if you would also like to subscribe to the QPL Teen Newsletter.
</p>
<!--<p><select size="1" name="Interest" multiple>
<option selected>General</option>
<option>Children's Activities</option>
<option>Teen Events</option>
<option>Adult Programs</option>
<option>Book Sale Notification</option>
<option>Friends of the Library</option>
<option>New Arrivals</option>
</select> <font face="Arial">Area of Interest</font></p>-->
<p>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="Submit">
</p>
</div>
</form>

Hi everyone,

I needs some help with image verification which I see on most websites these days. There is usually an image with blurred letters which are required to be typed into a field which verifys the user.

Is this javascript?
How would I implement this onto my webiste?

Some links, code or other feedback would be much appreciated!

Thanks
Raggy

Hi
I'm writing code for a conference registration page, and having a friend write the php for it. I've never worked with forms before.
How can I create an if statement that dosn't allow a viewer to submit their form if they have not filled out all the forms and also checked a confirmation text box? IE, an error box or page comes up if they have left a blank field and not clicked the text box. I know this involves at least some javascript so this may be the wrong forum.
Thanks!