Comments on: Processing Forms with PHP, a Beginner’s Guide

By: Joe Dolson

Joe Dolson — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:20:05 +0000

Well, from what you’ve said, I think that all you really need to do is change the way the CSS information is written. It looks to me like the regular expression which Smarty templating uses to identify Smarty tags is seeing {float:none;} as a Smarty template tag. If you were to change it to:


#menu {
float: none;
}

Then, I bet that Smarty wouldn’t throw that error. Give it a try, at any rate.

By: Cristian

Cristian — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:02:27 +0000

Hello. Can I make PHP skip a number of lines in the HTML page? There is an IE fix for a drop-down menu that’s causing an error.

The script:

#menu{float:none;} /* This is required for IE to avoid positioning bug when placing content first in source. */
/* IE Menu CSS */
/* csshover.htc file version: V1.21.041022 - Available for download from: http://www.xs4all.nl/~peterned/csshover.html */
body{behavior:URL(/css/csshover.htc);
font-size:100%; /* to enable text resizing in IE */
}
#menu ul li{float:left; width: 100%;}
#menu h2, #menu a{height:1%;font:bold 0.7em/1.4em arial,helvetica,sans-serif;}

The error:

Fatal error: Smarty: [in ./templates/tmpl1/index.tpl.html line 8]: syntax error: unrecognized tag: float:none; (smarty_compiler.class.php, line 417) in /home/rzeg3143/public_html/smarty/smarty_compiler.class.php on line 2062

By: Joe Dolson

Joe Dolson — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:46:34 +0000

Thanks, Matt! Glad to be able to help.

By: Matt Dabbert

Matt Dabbert — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:18:25 +0000

Thanks Joe!! I found this form processing article much easier to follow than similar articles on the web. Keep up the good work.

By: Joe Dolson

Joe Dolson — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 15:40:15 +0000

Well, it does sounds like you’re missing the “From:” address information in your script. Since it seems like that information is ALSO missing from your PHP configuration files, the mail() function won’t know how to send the message.

You’ll need to make certain that your headers statement used in the mail() function includes a From: header or modify your PHP.ini file to offer a default.

I suggest reading the PHP Mail function reference at PHP.net for help.

By: roshan

roshan — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:57:52 +0000

i am having problem with sending mails. I am getting error like

mail() [function.mail]: “sendmail_from” not set in PHP.ini or custom “From:” header missing in c:\wamp\www\mail\mail.php on line

also when i kept the smtp=192.168.1.xx it works for lan only but fails in global domain.

Please help me to solve this problem. Do I need any extra codings for sending mail?

By: Joe Dolson

Joe Dolson — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:40:50 +0000

Well, XML is kind of a different beast. What you can do with it depends on what version of PHP you’re using - PHP 5 has built in XML parsing functions, PHP 4.3 and below have XML handling functions as an extension — - available, but not necessarily installed in your version of XML.

The easiest way is generally to parse the XML information into an array, replace the elements you want to update, and then write the whole thing back to the file, replacing the previous information.

You may want to consider finding a script to parse and edit XML documents. I haven’t used it, but XML22 might do the trick for you.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:07:35 +0000

Thanks for the understandable and helpful article. I just have one question… As I understood, files can only be edited by PHP either at the top of the file or at the bottom… So how would I go about editing an XML file (feed), which needs to have opening/closing tags at the top and bottom? Can I make the PHP skip a few lines before throwing in the information? Thanks.

By: Joe Dolson

Joe Dolson — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:04:28 +0000

Cool! Glad to be timely :)

By: Cath

Cath — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:53:33 +0000

Thanks Joe, this is a very timely tutorial for me.