Form not showing from php code

[Eccubus]

Hi i am very new to php and i’ve been working hard on the following code but i can’t seem to get the form to show up, i’ve tried to modify the code and look very closely to see if i’m missing anything but nothing found, i know the table code is all red in Dreamweaver but can’t find the key, need help!!! :’(

[php]

Commentaires <?php include ("Menu.php") ?>

Commentaires

<?php //connect to the database mysql_connect ("localhost", "reationa_guest", "guestbook14"); mysql_select_db("reationa_guestbook"); //******************************************* //form and add stuff area echo "

Ajouter un commentaire

"; if ($_POST['postbtn']) { $name = strip_tags($_POST['nom']); $courriel = strip_tags($_POST['courriel']); $message = strip_tags($_POST['message']); if ($nom && $courriel && $message) { $date = date("F d, Y"); //add to the database mysql_query("INSERT INTO guestbook1 VALUES ('', '$nom', '$courriel', '$message', '$date')"); echo "Votre commentaire à été ajouté";} else { echo "Il semble manquer de l'information"; } echo "

Nom:
Courriel:
Message:

"; } //******************************************* //display stuff area $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM guestbook1 ORDER BY id DESC"); $numrows = mysql_num_rows($query); if ($numrows > 0) { echo "

---

"; while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query) ) { $id = $row['id']; $nom = $row['nom']; $courriel = $row['courriel']; $message = $row['message']; $date = $row['date']; $message = n12br ($message); echo "

Par $nom - le $date
$message

---

"; }} else echo "Aucun message n'a été trouvé"; //******************************************* mysql_close(); ?> [/php]

[malasho]

Are you posting a different form to this page?

If not, the reason your form is not showing is that your form is inside:[php]if($_POST[‘postbnt’]) {[/php] … and you will need to move your form outside of the if structure.

In addition, this line should be changed to:[php]if(isset($_POST[‘postbtn’])) {[/php]

You do not have a closing textarea tag and this will also cause the form to not display properly.

You are using XHTML 1.0 Transitional and this requires a row and column attribute for your textarea.

I know you said that your a very new to php and I am assuming that his is a learning project. If you plan to use this for a production site, you must sanitize your $_POST variables before using them in your query - using strip_tags is not enough. Also it is generally considered inappropriate to use a table for simple layout like this. For a production site, I would change to positioned divs.

Please let me know if this doesn’t work or if you have any questions.

jay

[mdahlke]

You have your form wrapped in the first if() statement.
and malasho is correct you should do if(isset())

try this…

[php]

Commentaires <?php include ("Menu.php") ?>

Commentaires

<?php //connect to the database mysql_connect ("localhost", "reationa_guest", "guestbook14"); mysql_select_db("reationa_guestbook"); //******************************************* //form and add stuff area echo "

Ajouter un commentaire

"; if (isset($_POST['postbtn'])) { $name = strip_tags($_POST['nom']); $courriel = strip_tags($_POST['courriel']); $message = strip_tags($_POST['message']); if ($nom && $courriel && $message) { $date = date("F d, Y"); //add to the database mysql_query("INSERT INTO guestbook1 VALUES ('', '$nom', '$courriel', '$message', '$date')"); echo "Votre commentaire à été ajouté"; } else { echo "Il semble manquer de l'information"; } } else { echo "

Nom:
Courriel:
Message:

"; } //******************************************* //display stuff area $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM guestbook1 ORDER BY id DESC"); $numrows = mysql_num_rows($query); if ($numrows > 0) { echo "

---

"; while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query) ) { $id = $row['id']; $nom = $row['nom']; $courriel = $row['courriel']; $message = $row['message']; $date = $row['date']; $message = n12br ($message); echo "

Par $nom - le $date
$message

---

"; }} else { echo "Aucun message n'a été trouvé"; } //******************************************* mysql_close(); ?> [/php]