PHP thank you page

[Morgan19]

I have a page with a little holiday "game" on it, that I'd like to then go to a thank you page once the user clicks Submit.

I've got everything set up but when I click the submit button I get this error:

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Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/httpd/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/holiday2004/thanks.php on line 144
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I know how to make forms (using DW MX 2004, which I am) but don't really know PHP. I'm following some instructions from another website so I'm not exactly sure what's wrong.

This is the game page:

<snipped>

I'd post the link to the .php page as well, but it just comes up as an error. Basically it's like any other page on the site except the instrucitons had me add this in the body:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="php">
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS[email];
$mailto = "[e-mail]";
$mailsubj = "Form submission";
$mailhead = "From: $email\n";
reset ($HTTP_POST_VARS);
$mailbody = "Values submitted from web site form:\n";
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS)) {
$mailbody .= "$key : $val\n"; }
mail($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead);
</SCRIPT>

Thanks,
m19

[edited by: coopster at 9:17 pm (utc) on Dec. 2, 2004]
[edit reason] removed urls per TOS [webmasterworld.com] [/edit]

[baze22]

Does the code you posted include line 144 from thanks.php? If not post line 144 and the code immediately before it.

I tried what you had here and was able to run it without error.

baze

[olwen]

For a start change:

$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS[email];

to
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS['email'];

[Morgan19]

These are the lines:

143 - <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="php">
144 - $email = $HTTP_POST_VARS[email];
145 - $mailto = "[e-mail]";
146 - $mailsubj = "Form submission";
147 - $mailhead = "From: $email\n";
148 - reset ($HTTP_POST_VARS);
149 - $mailbody = "Values submitted from web site form:\n";
150 - while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS)) {
151 - $mailbody .= "$key : $val\n"; }
152 - mail($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead);
153 - </SCRIPT>

Olwen, I also changed what you mentioned but to no effect, still get the error.

m19

[edited by: coopster at 9:18 pm (utc) on Dec. 2, 2004]
[edit reason] generalized url [/edit]

[dcrombie]

Try deleting lines 143 and 153.

Then if that doesn't work, use:

143: <?PHP

...

153:?>

[baze22]

Still don't see the problem but try this:

<?php
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS[email]; 
$mailto = "[e-mail]"; 
$mailsubj = "Form submission"; 
$mailhead = "From: $email\n"; 
reset ($HTTP_POST_VARS); 
$mailbody = "Values submitted from web site form:\n"; 
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS)) { 
$mailbody .= "$key : $val\n"; } 
echo "($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead)"; 
?>

baze

[edited by: coopster at 9:26 pm (utc) on Dec. 2, 2004]
[edit reason] generalized url [/edit]

[baze22]

Guess I should have asked about the code immediately before this code block.

baze

[Morgan19]

I tried the first and second suggestions (removing the start/end PHP lines altogether and then changing them to <? instead). This time when I click submit it loads through to the thanks.php page, but just lists all that on the page as text... I'm trying to get an email to come through to me as well, which I thought the coding in the form was supposed to do.

m19

[baze22]

Oops, in my test I undid the mail and echo'd the variables instead. Need to change back the line that reads

echo "($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead)"; 

to

mail ($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead);

baze

[Morgan19]

Yahoooooo! That worked. :) I've been trying to figure this out for hours, thank you! :):)

m19

[Morgan19]

So why did changing it from a script tag to the <? one make a difference?

m19

[coopster]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, Morgan19.
Welcome to WebmasterWorld, baze22.

If I remember correctly, when you create a PHP page in Dreamweaver, it will start PHP code with an xml DOCTYPE declaration, thereby serving up the page as XML/XHTML. And if you intend to embed PHP code in XML or XHTML, you will need to use the <?php. . .?> form of Escaping from HTML [php.net] to conform to the XML.