PHP - Php Insert Not Inserting With Echoed Form Elements

Ok I am not sure if this is possible but I hope someone out there can show me a way. I have a webpage with left content boxes that are looped in depending on the sql info. In one of the boxes the content of the box is going to be another page being pulled in. Now normally I would just put in the include ("page"); but its inside of an echo so you would end the echo do the include and then start the echo back up, however in this case its pulling in the coding from a variable so im a bit lost as to what to do now.

The page would have something like...

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echo ' '.html_entity_decode(stripslashes($info[content])).' ';

and the info content part is

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include("pages/paypalbox.php")
I've tried making the variable

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'; include("pages/paypalbox.php"); echo'
Hoping that would fix it but I should of known better, the variable is being pulled in so its not processing it as part of the first step coding and it isn't going to do anything other then print it out like text.

So is there a way to make this work?

Thanks.

Hey there guys, small problem here that I can't seem to figure out. I am in the process of programming a database with user-access control.  I have the log-in system working great, but the logout link, which is located next to the logged-in username seems to not be echoing correctly. It is loading the 'Logout' text in text-form only, not link-form....

Any ideas on what may be causing this small glitch?? Thanks!!   

I have attached relevant code for said part for reference.


<img src="images/username.png" height="20" width="20">&nbsp;<b>Welcome</b> <?php echo ("<font color=#9e0219>$username</font>");?>, <?php echo '<a href="logout.php">Logout</a>';?>

I built a series of insertion forms to put entries into a mysql database. Everything is working fine, except that I just now realized my checkboxes don't put any entry in. It's just leaving it's respective smallint field as a default "0". Being new, I've must've overlooked how to handle these.

The form's checkboxes have a bit of code in the value that remembers what users chose in case they have to backtrack and redo their form. How would I solve the problem and keep this code? Here's what all the checkboxes are written like:

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<input type="checkbox" name="green_leaf" value="<?php if(isset($_POST['1'])) echo $_POST['1']; ?>" > green

I have a form that is posting a value from a radio button as well as 16 Hidden values.
The form action goes to file2- which is successfully conecting and processing but instead of inserting the correct values I'm just seeing a row of zeros.

I don't know where to start looking!

This is the code from the posting form :
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 <?php // query.php
require_once 'login.php';
$db_server = mysql_connect($db_hostname, $db_username, $db_password);

if (!$db_server) die("Unable to connect to MySQL: " . mysql_error());

mysql_select_db($db_database)
    or die("Unable to select database: " . mysql_error());


$result = mysql_query("SELECT qid,question,oc1,oc2,oc3,oc4,oc5,oc6,oc7,psc1,psc2,psc3,psc4,psc5,psc6,psc7,psc8,psc9 FROM tblquestions WHERE qid = '1'");
if (!$result) {
    echo 'Could not run query: ' . mysql_error();
    exit;
}
$row = mysql_fetch_row($result);

echo $row[0]; // Question Number
echo $row[1]; // Question
echo $row[2]; // oc1
echo $row[3]; // oc2
echo $row[4]; // oc3
echo $row[5]; // oc4
echo $row[6]; // oc5
echo $row[7]; // oc6
echo $row[8]; // oc7
echo $row[9]; // pcs1
echo $row[10]; // pcs2
echo $row[11]; // pcs3
echo $row[12]; // pcs4
echo $row[13]; // pcs5
echo $row[14]; // pcs6
echo $row[15]; // pcs7
echo $row[16]; // pcs8
echo $row[17]; // pcs9


?>
  <p>Hello </p>
 <?php 

echo $row[0]; // Question Number

?>
  <form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="./uinputprocess.php">
    <table width="800" border="0">
      <tr>
        <td colspan="6"><p>Question
          <?php 

echo $row[0]; // Question Number

?>
        </p>
        <?php 

echo $row[1]; // Question

?>
        .</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td width="126"><p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
        <p align="center">Strongly Disagree        </p></td>
        <td width="65"><p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
        <p align="center">Disagree        </p></td>
        <td width="145"><p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
        <p align="center">Unsure but Doubtful        </p></td>
        <td width="152"><p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
        <p align="center">Unsure but Probable        </p></td>
        <td width="67"><p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
        <p align="center">Agree        </p></td>
        <td width="219"><p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
        <p align="center">Strongly Agree        </p></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><div align="center">
          <input type= "radio" name= "ans" value = "1"  />
        </div></td>
        <td><div align="center">
          <input type= "radio" name= "ans" value = "2"  />
        </div></td>
        <td><div align="center">
          <input type= "radio" name= "ans" value = "3"  />
        </div></td>
        <td><div align="center">
          <input type= "radio" name= "ans" value = "4"  />
        </div></td>
        <td><div align="center">
          <input type= "radio" name= "ans" value = "5"  />
        </div></td>
        <td><div align="center">
          <input type= "radio" name= "ans" value = "6"  />
        </div></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td colspan="6">&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td colspan="6"><p>Hidden Fields Here &gt; 
          <input type="hidden" name="oc1" id= <?php 

"echo $row[2];"

?> />   <input type="hidden" name="oc2" id= <?php 

"echo $row[3];"

?> />   <input type="hidden" name="oc3" id= <?php 

"echo $row[4];"

?> />   <input type="hidden" name="oc4" id= <?php 

"echo $row[5];"

?> />   <input type="hidden" name="oc5" id= <?php 

"echo $row[6];"

?> />   <input type="hidden" name="oc6" id= <?php 

"echo $row[7];"

?> />   <input type="hidden" name="oc7" id= <?php 

"echo $row[8];"

?> />   <input type="hidden" name="psc1" id= <?php 

"echo $row[9];"

?> />   <input type="hidden" name="psc2" id= <?php 

"echo $row[10];"

?> />   <input type="hidden" name="psc3" id= <?php 

"echo $row[11];"

?> />   <input type="hidden" name="psc4" id= <?php 

"echo $row[12];"

?> />   <input type="hidden" name="psc5" id= <?php 

"echo $row[13];"

?> />   <input type="hidden" name="psc6" id= <?php 

"echo $row[14];"

?> />   <input type="hidden" name="psc7" id= <?php 

"echo $row[15];"

?> />   <input type="hidden" name="psc8" id= <?php 

"echo $row[16];"

?> />   <input type="hidden" name="psc9" id= <?php 

"echo $row[17];"

?> />
        </p>
          <p>Pin 
            <label for="textfield"></label>
            <input name="textfield" type="password" id="textfield" size="20" maxlength="5" />
          </p></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td colspan="6"><p>
          <input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Submit" />
        </p>
        <p>&nbsp;</p></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </form>

And this is the code from the processing file

 <?php // query.php
require_once 'login.php';
$db_server = mysql_connect($db_hostname, $db_username, $db_password);

if (!$db_server) die("Unable to connect to MySQL: " . mysql_error());

mysql_select_db($db_database)
    or die("Unable to select database: " . mysql_error());

$pin =$_POST['pin'];
$qid =$_POST['qid'];
$oc1 =$_POST['oc1'];
$oc2 =$_POST['oc2'];
$oc3 =$_POST['oc3'];
$oc4 =$_POST['oc4'];
$oc5 =$_POST['oc5'];
$oc6 =$_POST['oc6'];
$oc7 =$_POST['oc7'];
$psc1 =$_POST['psc1'];
$psc2 =$_POST['psc2'];
$psc3 =$_POST['psc3'];
$psc4 =$_POST['psc4'];
$psc4 =$_POST['psc5'];
$psc6 =$_POST['psc6'];
$psc7 =$_POST['psc7'];
$psc8 =$_POST['psc8'];
$psc9 =$_POST['psc9'];
$ans =$_POST['ans'];

$enter_sql= "INSERT INTO tblresults (pin,qid,oc1,oc2,oc3,oc4,oc5,oc6,oc7,psc1,psc2,psc3,psc4,psc5,psc6,psc7,psc8,psc9) VALUES ('$pin','$qid','$oc1','$oc2','$oc3','$oc4','$oc5','$oc6','$oc7','$psc1','$psc2','$psc3','$psc4','$psc5','$psc6','$psc7','$psc8','$psc9')";
$enter_query =mysql_query($enter_sql) or die (mysql_error());
?>
<body>
<p>Thank you - You have successfully entered your answer</p>

Hi, I have built a custom php program for a client which takes information submitted in a html form and calculates a persons bmi. I have tested and it works fine, this is in one page (one file). My problem is I have tried to insert it in to wordpress using both shortcodes and php tag plugins (you can't insert php in to posts and pages as standard on wordpress) and I can't get it to work.   The closest I've got is using a php tag plugin that uses shortcodes to replace <?php & ?> but when I submit, it just reloads the page and form rather than showing the result. as I've said it works fine outside of wordpress.  :-\

<h1>BMI Calculator</h1>

<!--bmi form-->

<?php
if (!isset($_POST['submit'])){
?>


<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SHELF']; ?> "method="post">

<input name="weight" size="3"> Enter your weight in kilograms (KG).

</br>
</br>

<input name="height" size="3"> Enter your height in metres, for example if you're 160cm tall you would type in "1.60".

</br>
</br>

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Calculate">

</form>

<?php
}
else {

$weight = $_POST ['weight'];
$height = $_POST ['height'];
$bmi_catagory = array("Underweight", "Normal", "Overweight", "Obese");

$bmi = ($weight/$height)/$height;

if

($bmi <= 18.5)
{
echo '<h2>Your bmi is '.round($bmi).'</h2><p>You are '.$bmi_catagory[0]
.' Click <a href=\'../bmichecker.php\'>HERE</a> to see how Hypnoslimtize can help you achieve a healthy weight.</p>';
}


elseif

(($bmi > 18.5) && ($bmi <=24.9)) 
{
echo '<h2>Your bmi is '.round($bmi).'</h2><p>You are '.$bmi_catagory[1]
.' Click <a href=\'../bmichecker.php\'>HERE</a> to see how Hypnoslimtize can help you stay healthy and avoid temptations.</p>';
}


elseif

(($bmi >= 25) && ($bmi <=29.9)) 
{
echo '<h2>Your bmi is '.round($bmi).'</h2><p> You are '.$bmi_catagory[2]
.' Click <a href=\'../bmichecker.php\'>HERE<a/> to see how Hypnoslimtize can Help you achieve a healthy body weight.</p>';
}


elseif

($bmi >= 30) 
{
echo '<h2>Your bmi is '.round($bmi).'</h2><p> You are '.$bmi_catagory[3]
.' Click <a href=\'../bmichecker.php\'>HERE</a> to see how Hypnoslimtize can help you achieve a healthy body weight.</p>';
}

else
{
echo 'Your bmi is '.round($bmi);
}
}
?>

<!--bmi form end-->

Hi.

When a record is added its done via a form and processed via inserts.php.

I need to use the same form but to recall the data (by id) so it can be editted.

Cant work it out though.  Help would be well appreciated!

edit.php:

<CENTER><B>Update a Vehicle</B></CENTER>
<BR>

<?php

$query="SELECT * FROM cars";
$result=mysql_query($query);

$i=0;
while ($i < $num) {

$carname=mysql_result($result,$i,"CarName");
$cartitle=mysql_result($result,$i,"CarTitle");
$carprice=mysql_result($result,$i,"CarPrice");
$carmiles=mysql_result($result,$i,"CarMiles");
$cardesc=mysql_result($result,$i,"CarDescription");

?>

<form action="showroomedit.php" method="post">
<CENTER>Vehicle Name:</CENTER> 
<CENTER><input type="text" name="CarName" value="<?php echo $carname; ?>"></CENTER>
<br>
<CENTER>Vehicle Type:</CENTER>
<CENTER><input type="text" name="CarTitle" value="<?php echo $cartitle; ?>"></CENTER>
<br>
<CENTER>Vehicle Price:</CENTER>
<CENTER><input type="text" name="CarPrice" value="<?php echo $carprice; ?>"></CENTER>
<br>
<CENTER>Vehicle Mileage:</CENTER>
<CENTER><input type="text" name="CarMiles" value="<?php echo $carmiles; ?>"></CENTER>
<br>
<CENTER>Vehicle Description:</CENTER>
<CENTER><textarea name="CarDescription" rows="10" cols="30" value="<?php echo $cardesc; ?>"></textarea></CENTER>
<br>

<CENTER><input type="Submit"></CENTER>

</form>

</TD>

cant work out why it isnt working...

Hi, im trying to have a math captcha in my registration form, but having trouble with setting it up in my form. sorry for the large code. If i change the value of $_POST['Submit'] to something else like $_POST['Submit1'] and then same for the math image captcha then it works, but i would like it to work as part of the form, makes sense? lol right now the form just posts the value and doesnt check for captcha values! if someone could help me out here that would be great! thank you.
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<?php 
if(isset($_POST['Submit'])){
if($_POST['Submit'] != $_SESSION['security_number'])
      {
         $error = "";
      }
      else
      {
         $error = "";
      }
   
//NEED TO CHECK IF FIELDS ARE FILLED IN
if( empty($_POST['name']) && (empty($_POST['email']))){
header("Location:Messages.php?msg=3"); 
exit();
}
if( empty($_POST['pw1']) && (empty($_POST['pw2']))){
header( "Location:Messages.php?msg=4" ); 
exit();
}
$name=$_POST['name'];
$email=$_POST['email'];

$pw1=$_POST['pw1'];
$pw2=$_POST['pw2'];

if("$pw1" !== "$pw2"  ){
header( "Location:Messages.php?msg=5" ); 
exit();
}
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

//connect to the db server , check if uname exist
include('config.php');
$query1=("Select * from user where email='$email'");
$result1= mysql_query($query1); 
$num1=mysql_num_rows($result1);
if ($num1 > 0) {//Email already been used
header( "Location:Messages.php?msg=11" ); 
exit();
}else{
$query=("Select * from user where uname='$name'");
$result= mysql_query($query); 
$num=mysql_num_rows($result);
if ($num > 0) {//Username already exist
header( "Location:Messages.php?msg=6" ); 
exit();
}else{
//if username does not exist insert user details
$query=( "INSERT INTO user (uname, pw,email,date_joined,ip,level) VALUES ('$name',md5('$pw1'),'$email',NOW(),'$ip','Normal')");
if (@mysql_query ($query)) {
header("location:login.php?reg=1");
exit;
}
}
}
mysql_close();
}
?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html><!-- InstanceBegin template="/Templates/Auth.dwt.php" codeOutsideHTMLIsLocked="false" -->
<head>
<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="doctitle" -->
<title>Registration</title>
<!-- InstanceEndEditable -->
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="head" -->
<!-- InstanceEndEditable -->
<link href="styleLog.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
   function reloadCaptcha()
   {
      document.getElementById('captcha').src = document.getElementById('captcha').src+ '?' +new Date();
   }
</script>
</head>

<body>
<table width="100%"  border="0" cellspacing="7" cellpadding="0">
  <tr class="temptitle">
    <td><!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="EditRegion4" -->New User Registration <!-- InstanceEndEditable --></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="EditRegion3" -->
   <form name="form1" action="register.php" method="post">
   <table width="657" border="0">
  <tr>
    <td width="122"><div align="left">Name</div></td>
    <td width="525"><input name="name" type="text" size="40"></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><div align="left">Email</div></td>
    <td><input name="email" type="text" size="40"></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><div align="left">Password</div></td>
    <td><input name="pw1" type="password" size="40"></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td ><div align="left">Confirm Password </div></td>
    <td><input name="pw2" type="password" size="40"></td>
  </tr>
<tr>
   <td><img src="math_captcha/image.php" alt="Click to reload image" title="Click to reload image" id="captcha" onclick="javascript:reloadCaptcha()" /></td>
   <td><input type="text" name="Submit" value="what's the result?" onclick="this.value=''" /></td>
   <td>
</tr>
  <tr>
    <td></td>
    <td> <input name="Submit" type="submit" value="Register"></td>
  </tr>
</table>
 </form>
 <?=$error?>

MOD EDIT: code tags added.

I have limited php skills but I thought it would be easy to write a script that would allow a user to use a html form to go from one page to another. I thought I could do this by simply inserting a php variable into the function tag  but after many attempts I've had to give up.

Here is my most recent attempt.

<?php
print '<form action= "flash_card_'.$_POST['number'].'.php" method= "post">';
print '<input type= "text" name= "word" value= "'.$_POST['number'].'" />';
print '<input type= "submit" name="submit"  value="enter"/>';
print '</form>';
?>

My html editor says the syntax here is OK and the variable in the value attribute of the first input tag does what I want it to do. But the variable in the form tag does nothing. (If the user enters "2" in the text box, for example, the script attempts to send the user to the nonexistent "flash_card_.php" rather than to "flash_card_2.php" which is what I want.)

any advice would be much appreciated

regards to all from Forrest

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$query = "INSERT INTO contactv3(name,email,msg) VALUES ('$name','$email','$msg')";
$result = mysql_query( $query );

if( !$result ) {
die( mysql_error() );
}


I have this current php snippet inserting the $name and $msg into a mysql db.

$name and $msg come from here (a form that the user fills out).

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                   <input type="text" size=28 name="name">
                               
                                         <input type="password" size=28  name="msg" >

but is it possible to also enter the URL or perhaps a parameter that is appended to the end of the URL into the mysql db into separate column?

Lets say I have this database:

table brand [brandID] [brandName] where brandID -> auto increment and one brand always has the same brandID
table product [brandID] [productID] [price] where productID -> auto increment

I want to insert new product into the database using only values [brandName] and [price]
and want brandID and productID to be created automatically


I use this form:

<form id="insertingDataToBrand" action="administratorCode.php" method="post">
   <div>Brand Name: <input type="text" name="brandName"/></div>
   <div>Price: <input type="text" name="price"/></div>
</form>

And here is the php code:

<?php
   //connection to database
   include 'connectToDatabase.php';
   
   //data retrieveing
   $brand = $_POST['brandName'];
   $price = $_POST['price'];
      
   //As I am inserting to two different tables I use two INSERT statements
   $sql = "INSERT INTO brand (brandName) values ('$brand')";
   
   mysql_query($sql) or die (mysql_error());
   
   //as brandID is created automatically I am going to insert the same value to another table
   $last_id = mysql_insert_id ();

   $sql = "INSERT INTO product (price, brandID) values ('$price', '$last_id')";
      
?>

This should work just fine (it doesnt tho) BUT my question is:

I have 3 different brands (brand A with brandID 1, brand B with brandID 2, brand C with brandID 3).
When want to insert brand D, automatically created brandID should be automatically set to 4. BUT
when I want to insert product of the same brand, lets say brand A (with different productID) brandID is automatically set to 4(or higher) as well.

What do I have to do(use) so it would be able to realise what brandID should be added?

Thanks a lot.

I want to pull some records  plus unique key from one mysql table and then use them as questions in a form/questionnaire.

The post form will have six radio buttons  to the right of the fields pulled with the key posted but hidden and will wirte to another table.

I guess this is a templating question- as I've successfully retrieved the table 1 records via a query - I just can't seem to use them in the form. Below is the code I'm using to view table "PCM1"

<?php // query.php
require_once 'login.php';
$db_server = mysql_connect($db_hostname, $db_username, $db_password);

if (!$db_server) die("Unable to connect to MySQL: " . mysql_error());

mysql_select_db($db_database)
or die("Unable to select database: " . mysql_error());

$query = "SELECT * FROM pcm1";
$result = mysql_query($query);

if (!$result) die ("Database access failed: " . mysql_error());

$rows = mysql_num_rows($result);

for ($j = 0 ; $j < $rows ; ++$j)
{
echo 'RID: '   . mysql_result($result,$j,'mcde')  ;
echo 'Statement: '    . mysql_result($result,$j,'oppclub')    . '<br />';

;
}

So I've spent 2 days now searching the web on how to make my checkbox array on my form insert the value selected by the user into my database. Here is the code that I've written. All fields except for the checkbox array works fine.

<?php virtual('/budgets/Connections/connAdmin.php'); ?>
<?php
if (!function_exists("GetSQLValueString")) {
function GetSQLValueString($theValue, $theType, $theDefinedValue = "", $theNotDefinedValue = "")
{
  if (PHP_VERSION < 6) {
    $theValue = get_magic_quotes_gpc() ? stripslashes($theValue) : $theValue;
  }

  $theValue = function_exists("mysql_real_escape_string") ? mysql_real_escape_string($theValue) : mysql_escape_string($theValue);

  switch ($theType) {
    case "text":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
      break;   
    case "long":
    case "int":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? intval($theValue) : "NULL";
      break;
    case "double":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? doubleval($theValue) : "NULL";
      break;
    case "date":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
      break;
    case "defined":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? $theDefinedValue : $theNotDefinedValue;
      break;
  }
  return $theValue;
}
}

$editFormAction = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
  $editFormAction .= "?" . htmlentities($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);
}
 
 
  if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
    $workStyle = $_POST['art_photos'];

    // Setting up a blank variable to be used in the coming loop.
    $allStyles = "";

    // For every checkbox value sent to the form.
    foreach ($workStyle as $style) {
      // Append a string called $allStyles with the current array element, and then add a comma and a space at the end.
      $allStyles .= $style . ", ";
    }

    // Delete the last two characters from the string.
    $allStyles = substr($allStyles, 0, -2);

    echo "<p>The resulting string is: <strong>$allStyles</strong></p>\r\n";

  }



if ((isset($_POST["MM_insert"])) && ($_POST["MM_insert"] == "form1")) {
  $insertSQL = sprintf("INSERT INTO daily_budget (rundate, slug, reporter, budgetInfo, notes, `section`, deadline, art_photos sidebar, sBudget) VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s)",
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['rundate'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['slug'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['reporter'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['budgetInfo'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['notes'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['section'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['deadline'], "text"),
                  GetSQLValueString($_POST['art_photos'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['sidebar'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['sBudget'], "text"));

  mysql_select_db($database_connAdmin, $connAdmin);
  $Result1 = mysql_query($insertSQL, $connAdmin) or die(mysql_error());
}

?>

<!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">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Budget Record</title>

</head>

<body>
<?php
if (isset($error)) {
   echo '<ul>';
   foreach($error as $alert) {
      echo "<li class='warning'>$alert</li>\n";
   }
   echo '</ul>';
}
?>
<form action="<?php echo $editFormAction; ?>" method="POST" name="form1" id="form1">
  <table align="center" width="60%" border="2" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
    <tr valign="baseline">
      <td width="14%" align="right" nowrap="nowrap"><STRONG>Rundate:</STRONG></td>
      <td width="86%">
        <input type="text" name="rundate" size="30" value="" id="jQueryUICalendar2"/>
        <script type="text/javascript">
// BeginWebWidget jQuery_UI_Calendar: jQueryUICalendar2
jQuery("#jQueryUICalendar2").datepicker();

// EndWebWidget jQuery_UI_Calendar: jQueryUICalendar2
              </script></td>
    </tr>
    <tr valign="baseline">
      <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right"><STRONG>Section:</STRONG></td>
      <td>
        <select name="section">
        <option value=""></option>
          <option value="A1">A1</option>
          <option value="Pickup All">Pickup All</option>
          <option value="Region">Region</option>
          <option value="Atlantic">Atlantic</option>
            <option value="Business">Business</option>
          <option value="Features">Features</option>
          <option value="Sports">Sports</option>
        </select>
     </td>
    </tr>
    <tr valign="baseline">
      <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right"><strong>Slug:</strong></td>
      <td><span id="sprytextfield2">
      <input type="text" name="slug" value="" size="32" />
      <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">REQUIRED</span></span><span style="color: #F00; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10px;"></span></td>
    </tr>
    <tr valign="baseline">
      <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right"><strong>Budget Information:</strong></td>
      <td><span id="sprytextarea1">
        <textarea name="budgetInfo" cols="50" rows="4"></textarea>
<span class="textareaRequiredMsg">Required.</span></span><span style="color: #F00; font-weight: bold; font-size: 11px;"></span></td>
    </tr>
    <tr valign="baseline">
      <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right"><strong>Notes:</strong></td>
      <td><input type="text" name="notes" value="" size="32" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr valign="baseline">
      <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right"><strong>Reporter:</strong></td>
      <td><span id="sprytextfield3">
        <input type="text" name="reporter" value="" size="32" />
      <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">Required.</span></span><span style="color: #F00; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10px;"></span></td>
    </tr>
    <tr valign="baseline">
      <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right"><strong>Deadline:</strong></td>
      <td><input type="text" name="deadline" size="30" value="Enter date" id="jQueryUICalendar1"/><script type="text/javascript">
// BeginWebWidget jQuery_UI_Calendar: jQueryUICalendar2
jQuery("#jQueryUICalendar1").datepicker();

// EndWebWidget jQuery_UI_Calendar: jQueryUICalendar2
              </script> </td>
    </tr>
    <tr valign="baseline">
      <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right"><strong>Artwork:</strong></td>
      <td><label>
          <input type="checkbox" name="art_photos[]" value="factbox" id="art_photos_0"  />
          Factbox</label>
       
        <label>
          <input type="checkbox" name="art_photos[]" value="graphic" id="art_photos_1" />
          Graphic</label>
       
        <label>
          <input type="checkbox" name="art_photos[]" value="photo" id="art_photos_2" />
          Photo</label>
       
        <label>
          <input type="checkbox" name="art_photos[]" value="video" id="art_photos_3"  />
          Video</label>
      <br /></td>
    </tr>
        <tr>
       
    </tr>
       <tr valign="baseline">
      <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right">      <strong>Sidebar:</strong></td>
      <td valign="baseline"><span id="spryradio2">
        <label>
          <input type="radio" name="sidebar" value="y" id="sidebar_0" />
          Yes</label>
        <br />
        <label>
          <input type="radio" name="sidebar" value="n" id="sidebar_1" />
          No</label>
        <br />
        <span class="radioRequiredMsg"><strong style="font-size: 11px">REQUIRED.</strong></span></span>
       
    </tr>
    <tr valign="baseline">
      <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right"><strong>Sidebar Information:</strong></td>
      <td><input type="text" name="sBudget" value="" size="32" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr valign="baseline">
      <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right">&nbsp;</td>
      <td><input type="submit" value="Insert record" /></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
  <input type="hidden" name="MM_insert" value="form1" />
</form>

<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h3><a href="/new_budget/admin/manage_budgets.php"><strong>View your budget entry, make changes or delete your budget.</strong></a></h3>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
jQuery("#jQueryUICalendar1").datepicker();
jQuery("#jQueryUICalendar2").datepicker();
var sprytextfield2 = new Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField("sprytextfield2", "none", {maxChars:15, validateOn:["change"]});
var sprytextarea1 = new Spry.Widget.ValidationTextarea("sprytextarea1", {validateOn:["change"]});
var sprytextfield3 = new Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField("sprytextfield3");
var spryradio2 = new Spry.Widget.ValidationRadio("spryradio2");
//-->
</script>
</body>
</html>

when I send a post variable to another page for processing using cURL and then I echo the variable I am getting extra slashes and periods

this is where I set the fields to send.

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curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,"name='. $name  .'&email='.  $email .'&serial='.  $serialnumber .'");
this is what happens when I echo $serial on the processing page.
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\'. SLNM7IV6ZM98YJRXO8D5 .\'
it should look like
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SLNM7IV6ZM98YJRXO8D5

Here is video and there is shown how specific this problem is
http://faksx.sytes.net/help/

Solutions Witch doesn't fit in for this time is meta refresh,header(),exit(),die() .