Radio Buttons in a PHP Form

[system]

Hi everyone.

Can someone please have a look at the following code and tell me what I’m doing wrong?

I have a form on one of my clients websites (a photographer) which allows the client to select the size of prints they require (using 6 radio buttons underneath the corresponding size for each image) and a text box at the end of the row where they can enter the quantity of prints they require.

I am getting the error (in Google Chrome) “The website encountered an error while retrieving http://…/purchase.php. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly”

A shortened version of the PHP code is as follows:

<?php $to = "[email protected]"; $name = $_POST['name']; $address = $_POST['address']; $email = $_POST['email']; $tel = $_POST['tel']; $img1size = $_POST['img1size']; $1qty = $_POST['1qty'];

$N = count($addon);
$subject = “Purchase from … Website”;
$body = “Name: $name \n\n Address: $address \n\n Email: $email \n\n
Tel: $tel \n\n Image 1 Size: $img1size \n\n Image 1 Quantity: $1qty \n\n”;
$sent = mail($to, $subject, $body) ;
if($sent)
{echo “”;}
else
{echo “window.location = ‘error.html’;</script”;}
?>

A shortened version of the HTML for this form is:

Name:
Address:
Email:
Tel:
Select the images and sizes you wish to purchase from the list below.

8" x 6"

10" x 8"

20" x 16" Framed

20" x 16" Canvas

32" + Framed

32"+ Canvas

Quantity

The form works fine when I upload and test the first part of the form (name, address, email and tel) but when I add the code for the radio buttons I get the error message.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[phphelp]

Not sure how adding radio buttons to html code would cause such error. But I noticed you’re redirecting using javascript, while the rest of your code is PHP. It is more logical to redirect using PHP, like this:
[php]header(“Location: purchty.html”);
exit;[/php]

When you’re redirecting using javascript, it is supposed that your current HTML page is first loaded to a client browser, and then javascript redirects to another page. While using PHP, you’re sending redirection headers from server side, without sending any intermediate page to browser.

[Pod]

Thanks for this.

It certainly does make sense to get rid of the java and use php. I copied my 1st php code from another tutorial site and haven’t really changed anything I didn’t have to.

As for the form not working, the part which did work on it’s own (name, address, email and tel) worked fine, but as soon as I added the first line of the purchase options with radio buttons it stopped working.

I have just gone back through it and have taken out all the numbers in the radio button names (img1qty became imgoneqty) and it now works.

Is this a problem with php where you cannot have numbers as either part of the button name or in the actual php fields?

Thanks again for your assistance.

[phphelp]

It is Ok to use digits in PHP variable names, but maybe having digits in html form field names cause problem in Chrome?