Hang up with running PHP script
Hi ...
firstly thanks to you all for taking the trouble to post. Having made the best fist i can of understanding your comments (not really in my comfort zone with this stuff) here's an update: my action line in my page code now reads: <form action="http://ccgi.ker001.plus.com/FormToEmail.php" method="post">. Having moved the script up one level out of the cgi-bin folder, now, when i try to test the form i see a page basically showing the text of the php script ... as i also see if i enter the following in my browser: http://ccgi.ker001.plus.com/FormToEmail.php. An improvement i feel on an error message but still obviously not quite right?
Alan
firstly thanks to you all for taking the trouble to post. Having made the best fist i can of understanding your comments (not really in my comfort zone with this stuff) here's an update: my action line in my page code now reads: <form action="http://ccgi.ker001.plus.com/FormToEmail.php" method="post">. Having moved the script up one level out of the cgi-bin folder, now, when i try to test the form i see a page basically showing the text of the php script ... as i also see if i enter the following in my browser: http://ccgi.ker001.plus.com/FormToEmail.php. An improvement i feel on an error message but still obviously not quite right?
Alan
Hi Alan,
I suspect you might have " escapes round the "action=" filename so that the filename looked for starts and ends with a "quote", but it doesn't and shouldn't.
However, there is one difference between your set-up and mine that I'd forgotten. Your HTML page is on homepages whereas the PHP script has to be on CCGI - in my case both were in the same PAYH webspace. This is why you had to change the "action=" line.
Having looked at a friend's HTML code that works and references a CCGI PHP file from HTML homepages (though not through a form), the PHP call-up is http://ccgi.domainname/subdir/filename.php which apart from use of a sub-directory is similar to the format you had for the action in your opening post. However at the time I think you had the file in the /cgi-bin folder so it wasn't found. Phil mentioned PHP files wouldn't work in /cgi-bin so you tried moving it up a level when it was found but not interpreted. Speculating it's possible that the interpretation problem also extends to the level above.
I suggest you try putting FormToEmail.php in a CCGI subdirectory of your choice then reference it via action="http://ccgi.your-domain/your-subdir/FormToEmail.php"? You might want to change "/" in the FormToEmail.php $continue = "/"; line to "http:/www.your-domain/" so that it returns to your homepages HTML file rather than the top level on CCGI.
David
I suspect you might have " escapes round the "action=" filename so that the filename looked for starts and ends with a "quote", but it doesn't and shouldn't.
However, there is one difference between your set-up and mine that I'd forgotten. Your HTML page is on homepages whereas the PHP script has to be on CCGI - in my case both were in the same PAYH webspace. This is why you had to change the "action=" line.
Having looked at a friend's HTML code that works and references a CCGI PHP file from HTML homepages (though not through a form), the PHP call-up is http://ccgi.domainname/subdir/filename.php which apart from use of a sub-directory is similar to the format you had for the action in your opening post. However at the time I think you had the file in the /cgi-bin folder so it wasn't found. Phil mentioned PHP files wouldn't work in /cgi-bin so you tried moving it up a level when it was found but not interpreted. Speculating it's possible that the interpretation problem also extends to the level above.
I suggest you try putting FormToEmail.php in a CCGI subdirectory of your choice then reference it via action="http://ccgi.your-domain/your-subdir/FormToEmail.php"? You might want to change "/" in the FormToEmail.php $continue = "/"; line to "http:/www.your-domain/" so that it returns to your homepages HTML file rather than the top level on CCGI.
David