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I can't get a form coding to recognize a download.php to download a file to
the client. I need the edits of the form for a MySQL table, but the
following form code only wants to download 'download.php' and won't access
download.php so the code can take affect. How can the action item call
download.php?

<form name="form1" method="post" action="downloa d.php"
onSubmit="

MM_validateForm ('LastName','', 'R');MM_validat eForm('email',' ','NisEmail');
MM_validateForm ('email','','R' );
MM_validateForm ('FirstName','' ,'R');
return document.MM_ret urnValue">
<p><b><font size="3">First Name:</font></b>
<input type="text" name="FirstName " maxlength="50" size="30">
<font size="3"><b> Last Name:</b></font>
<input type="text" name="LastName" maxlength="50" size="30">
</p>
eMail:
<input type="text" name="email" size="40" maxlength="50">
</b></p>
<input type="submit" value="Download " />
</form>
Jul 17 '05 #1
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Dough,

Your posting is scrambled and looks like nonsense in my viewer (KNode).
Maybe repost it.
(Be sure to post plain text)

Regards,
Erwin Moller
Jul 17 '05 #2
Erwin Moller wrote:
Dough,

Your posting is scrambled and looks like nonsense in my viewer (KNode).


No it doesn't. My comp screwed it up. :-(
Sorry about that.

to your question:
My advise would be to do a little test.
First remove the whole onsubmit-stuff and see if the script is called as you
expect.

1) If it doesn't: Your download.php is broken
2) If it does: check all the functions you call, like MM_validateForm , etc.

Regards,
Erwin Moller
Jul 17 '05 #3
"Doug" <fa****@toast.n et> wrote:

I can't get a form coding to recognize a download.php to download a file to
the client. I need the edits of the form for a MySQL table, but the
following form code only wants to download 'download.php' and won't access
download.php so the code can take affect. How can the action item call
download.php ?


Sounds like your web server is not configured to recognize .php files as a
server-side script. Did you do the install, or is this a hosted web site?
--
- Tim Roberts, ti**@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
Jul 17 '05 #4

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