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PHP

Posted by Jackson Monk
Jackson Monk
4,527 Points

Php file does not at all work

I am working in Notepad++ trying to send the text content of an element from one web page to another with php, but php does not at all seem to work. When I set the form's action attribute to the php page, it just displays all the code I have written on the page rather than working. Even when I use

<?php include 'Phpfile.php' ?>

in the page I want to send the information to, it still does not do anything. I'm pretty new to php so if anyone could tell me what I'm doing wrong, I would be very appreciative.

2 Answers

Jackson Monk
Jackson Monk
4,527 Points

Sure Mikkel, here is the element on the first page I'm trying to send:

<textarea type = text id = rant-input name = rant></textarea>

Here is the element on another page that I want to recieve the information:

<?php include 'Processor1.php'?>
<div id = info-div></div>

Here is the php file, called Processor1.php, again very new to php so I could have made a thousand mistakes:

<?php

$doc = new DomDocument;

// We need to validate our document before referring to the id
$doc->validateOnParse = true;
$doc->Load('Rant.html');

$doc->getElementById('rant-input');

$doc2 = new DomDocument;

// We need to validate our document before referring to the ids
$doc2->validateOnParse = true;
$doc2->Load('Community.html');

$doc2->getElementById('info-div');


$doc2->nodeValue = $doc->nodeValue;

header('Location: Community.html');

exit();

?>

Thanks for any help

Jackson Monk
Jackson Monk
4,527 Points

Why does the php just show up as the code I wrote rather than html?

Jackson Monk
Jackson Monk
4,527 Points
Jackson Monk
Jackson Monk
4,527 Points

Nvm, didn't realize I had to install a web server cause php is a server side language