"form" help.

**unknownerrors** · 02-01-2007, 06:55 PM

i droped it into the root to see if that helped anything.. it didn't. heres the link.

http://unknownerrors.net/searchform.php

**unknownerrors** · 02-01-2007, 07:51 PM

very weird, when i make the search page in Dreamweaver, the form action is set to <?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>

once up loaded to the server, if you view source the action is changed to what ever the file name of the search page is.

**BLiZZaRD** · 02-01-2007, 09:05 PM

Sounds like dreamweaver.

Try doing it in notepad. (you can copy and paste). DW has a knack for parsing scripts during publishing, which is a bad thing.

See what happens if you do it in a plain text editor.

**unknownerrors** · 02-01-2007, 09:29 PM

wow, never realized how much crap DW puts in its files.

anywho,

this is what the file i made looks like.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 

Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; 

charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>


<?php
if ($_POST['act'] == "do_search") { //if the action is 

do_search
   if ($_POST['q'] == "" || $_POST['se'] == "") { //if 

query or search engine is blank
        header('Refresh:3; url='.$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]);
        echo 'You must enter a search query and select a 

search engine to search!';
   }

   else {

header('Location: '.$_POST["se"].$_POST["q"]);

   }
      
}

else { //if form not submitted
?>

<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>" 

method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="act" value="do_search">

Search: <input type="text" name="q" value=""><BR>
<input type="radio" name="se" value=" 

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&q=">G

oogle <input type="radio" name="se" 

value="http://hotbot.com/?loc=searchbox&tab=web&mode=search

&currProv=ask&query=">HotBot<BR>
<input type="submit" value="Search">

</form>

<?php
}
?>
</body>
</html>

Now, this is what the file looks like on the server.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>



<form action="/searchform.php" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="act" value="do_search">

Search: <input type="text" name="q" value=""><BR>
<input type="radio" name="se" value=" http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&q=">Google <input type="radio" name="se" value="http://hotbot.com/?loc=searchbox&tab=web&mode=search&currProv=ask&query=">HotBot<BR>

<input type="submit" value="Search">



</form>


</body>
</html>

theres some code missing.. how is it getting lost from my computer to smartftp though my server to my browser?!

**BLiZZaRD** · 02-01-2007, 09:34 PM

Well, php is a server-side language. Everything in php coding tags is being parsed/read before it get's to the browser.

The browser's source code only displays what you actually physically see on the page (in reference to html vs. php here)

So anything between the <?php and the ?> won't show in the source code. Unless you TELL php to show some things, i.e. the echo ' statement.

**thetestingsite** · 02-01-2007, 11:09 PM

Ok, here's a for sure working version. Just edit the parts in red (commented) to suit your needs.

search.php

Code:

<?php

/* Below is the header section (the part before the search form) of your page. Place it between the HERE tags! */

$head = <<<HERE
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
HERE;

/* Below is the footer section (the part after the search form) of your page. Place it between the HERE tags! */

$footer = <<<HERE

<iframe src="" name="myFrame"></iframe>
</body>
</html>
HERE;

if ($_POST['act'] == "do_search") { //if the action is do_search
   if ($_POST['q'] == "" || $_POST['se'] == "") { //if query or search engine is blank
        header('Refresh:3; url='.$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]);

echo $head;

echo 'You must enter a search query and select a search engine to search!';

echo $footer;

   }

   else {

header('Location: '.$_POST["se"].$_POST["q"]);

   }
      
}

else { //if form not submitted

echo $head;
?>

<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>" method="POST" target="myFrame">
<input type="hidden" name="act" value="do_search">

Search: <input type="text" name="q" value=""><BR>
<input type="radio" name="se" value=" http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&q=">Google <input type="radio" name="se" value="http://hotbot.com/?loc=searchbox&tab=web&mode=search&currProv=ask&query=">HotBot<BR>
<input type="submit" value="Search">

</form>

<?php
echo $footer;
}
?>

To see what it does, go to this page (Note, this is my home server. If you can't access it, I may be doing updates or it is turned off.)

Hope this helps.