How to open a PHP success page in MIVA

[wajake41]

Re: How to open a PHP success page in MIVA

html is just text like you get when you type a letter, it is not a program. When html is sent to a browser, the browser uses the html to format the web page. PHP is a programming language. It too is text, but it has to be processed by a PHP interpreter which understands and executes the php language commands, for example: echo. php is amazingly powerful and has a multitude of features that are built into it (I even ran into a function that can give the time of sunrise in some location at a future date). The php echo command is used to send html formatted text to a browser, where the browser then formats the web page using the html. Html & php are two very different animals. Hope this help distinguish between the two. I would think that someone on this forum could help with this since we are talking about modifying your Miva script code. Not sure you'll find much help on the Google. Regards, Larry

[kayakbabe]

Re: How to open a PHP success page in MIVA

forgive me as I"m hungry... but here is an analogy that might help.

an html file is like a frozen tv dinner served by an angry spouse (named server).
The server grabs it off the shelve, does nothing to it, and throws it at the browser. Browser interprets the html to show it to the viewer.

a php file is like a fine recipe that needs tlc to get perfect.
The server reads the recipe, then mashes, mangles, stirs, add some spices, bakes it and then after a little time delivers some kind of result to the browser. If the recipe was good, then the browser can interpret it and you see some awesome stuff on your browser.

A lot more happens to a php file on the server side even if it just says "hello world".

It sounds like your form is collecting information and you want to capture that information. You are either having it emailed to you, or stored in a database, or both... then you want to say "thank you" with your success php.
Do you even need to send all that stuff on the url to your success.php ? Maybe their first name?

Using get to toss things around on a website leaves a lot of security risk and room for hackers,sniffers,snoopers and the like to grab that info. People get nervous now days when they see all that in a url even if it is on the same website.

also, I can't help but wonder since you have had your site converted to be php based. why are you still trying to use that old mivascript? just redo the form, form submission process, and thank you all in php. There are tons of examples on google about how to do it.
I"m sure whomever converted your site to php can do it for you.

[wajake41]

Re: How to open a PHP success page in MIVA

I love the analogy! Larry

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Re: How to open a PHP success page in MIVA

execute the server success.php program rather than submit the success.html page. Sorry for the misguided replies. Larry

You can try using the POST method with the mvcall instead of GET.

Also note, that for servers running old versions of Mivascript, it was common to run files with both .HTML as well as the more standard .MV extensions through the mivascript program interpreter.

[imyb]

Re: How to open a PHP success page in MIVA

Thanks everyone. I love the analogy.... I guess I am the SERVER WIFE! ;-)

As for using the OLD MIVA SCRIPTS to process my forms was because I didn't expect it would be a big deal and it's not my area of expertise. I wanted something "simple" to script. This was already done and working and I figured it would be easy to just change the link from success.html to success.php but I of course didn't know about the TV DINER vs GOURMET MEAL situation ;-)

This might be silly but when I open the link to the success.php page it works, I really wish there was a way to just open a new page with the url in there and it would "bake it properly". But I understand the limitation better with all your help.

I guess I'll just look into doing a script in php to process my form... I need it to EMAIL ME THE INFO, SAVE IT INTO A file.txt on my server and SEND THE CLIENT TO THE SUCCESS PAGE... I hope this is going to be easy to do. I learn fast but I need this up and rolling in a hurry. I wish that it was possible in miva to just say... GO TO THIS URL and IT's PHP so load it properly.

So, I guess i see PHP scripting in my near furture... Thanks everyone for all the great & fast help. You guys are the best!

[wajake41]

Re: How to open a PHP success page in MIVA

Did you try changing the GET to POST? Larry

[imyb]

Re: How to open a PHP success page in MIVA

Not yet but I will... But could you paste the part of code I should use if you can.

[wajake41]

Re: How to open a PHP success page in MIVA

This is just a WAG. Try changing <MvCALL ACTION="&[url];" METHOD="GET"> to <MvCALL ACTION="&[url];" METHOD=" POST "> Larry