Cookie check appears to disable script

[ehmer]

Thanks to some advice on this forum I managed to get my page correctly checking for a cookie and processing the page as intended. Unfortunately a form to email script actioned when the form is submitted doesn’t work now. (it should send the value of 'email' to a specified address). The script hasn’t been modified, just the PHP code that determines whether to display the login form or not.

I have included the amended logic below. Appreciate suggestions for what is the problem here.

Thanks
David


<h1>Free resources</h1>
<?
if (isset($_COOKIE['email'])) {
?>
<ul><li><a href="#">Access free resources</a></li></ul>
<?
} elseif ($_GET['checkit']) {
echo "<ul><li><a href="#">Access free resources</a></li></ul>";
}
else {
?>
<p>Please enter your email address below to access the free SMILE resources.</p>
<form name="emailaddress" id="emailaddress" title="Email address" onsubmit="return formvalidation();" method="post" action="<? echo $_SERVER['cgi-bin/formtomailscript2.cgi']; ?>">
<table id="emailtable">
<tr>
<td class="input"><input name="email" id="email" type="text" size="23" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div align="center">
<input name="submit" id="submit" type="submit" value="submit" />
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
document.getElementById('email').focus();
// -->
</script>

[DougBTX]

<form name="emailaddress" id="emailaddress" title="Email address" onsubmit="return formvalidation();" method="post" action="<? echo $_SERVER['cgi-bin/formtomailscript2.cgi']; ?>">

That line looks odd, shouldn't it be:

<form name="emailaddress" id="emailaddress" title="Email address" onsubmit="return formvalidation();" method="post" action="cgi-bin/formtomailscript2.cgi">

Douglas

[ultk]

Or action="/cgi-bin/formtomailscript2.cgi" if you have subdirectories and you are calling from a page in one of these subdirectories.

[ehmer]

the path is ok without the leading slash. If I remove:

<? echo $_SERVER['cgi-bin/formtomailscript2.cgi']; ?>

and replace it with:

"cgi-bin/formtomailscript2.cgi"

then the script executes and sends of the email to the specified account, but doesn't recognise the cookie, so the form is displayed each time the page loads.

However is I use the $_SERVER approach the cookie aspect works fine but the form to email script doesn't execute.

Any further ideas?

[DougBTX]

if I use the $_SERVER approach the cookie aspect works fine but the form to email script doesn't execute.

Any further ideas?

Have a look at the HTML source code in your browser. I'm betting that when you "use the $_SERVER approach" you end up with action="" in your HTML page. It won't execute the script becuse you're not telling it where the script is!

Douglas

[ehmer]

You may be correct Douglas and I'll check it out. In the meantime if it isn't correct, what should the value of action be?

David

[DougBTX]

It should be an absolute or relative path to the script on the server you want to execute.

If the script you want to execute is at cgi-bin/formtomailscript2.cgi then the action should look like this:

action="/cgi-bin/formtomailscript2.cgi"

If you just have action="", then the browser will use the current URL as the action URL.

Douglas

[ehmer]

yes it will execute the script with the action that way, but fails to recognise the cookie and related logic. ie won't display the link if a cookie is present on the users computer, still shows the form.