PHP inline execution in HTML

[smnuman]

I have an index.php which has at the last line the following:
[PHP]include_once("A.php");[/PHP]

I have the following in the A.php file.

<?php 
echo $HTML_HEAD . $PRE_CONTENTS;
?>
<div id="content">
            <table width="460" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
                ... some table infos here ...
            </table>
<?php if (!isset($_GET['cf'])) { ?>
    <form name="contact_form" method="post" action="?<?php echo (HREF_GET) ; ?>">
        <input name="Fname" type="text" value="" size="30" maxlength="60">
        <input name="PrimaryNo" type="text" value="" size="29" maxlength="15">
        <input name="mobileNo" type="text" value="" size="30" maxlength="15">
        <textarea name="comments" cols="22" rows="4"></textarea>
        <input name="EAdd" type="text" value="" size="30" maxlength="80">
        <input type="submit" name="SubmitCF" value="Contact me please">
    </form>
</div>
<?php
} else {
?>
Thank you for submitting you request. We'll be in touch shortly.
</div>
<?php
}
echo $POST_CONTENTS . $HTML_FOOT; 
?>
 

In A.php the first and last set of PHP instructions, i.e.,
[PHP]
echo $HTML_HEAD . $PRE_CONTENTS;
[/PHP]
&
[PHP]
echo $POST_CONTENTS . $HTML_FOOT;
[/PHP] are well parsed. but the rest of them are not.

Testing it in a localserver I have the following $_SERVER array with the following values after submitting the form.

Array
(
    [HTTP_ACCEPT] => image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, */*
    [HTTP_REFERER] => http://localhost/qhs/?ni=2.
    [HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE] => en-gb
    [CONTENT_TYPE] => application/x-www-form-urlencoded
    [HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING] => gzip, deflate
    [HTTP_USER_AGENT] => Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; Mozilla/4.0(Compatible Mozilla/4.0(Compatible-EmbeddedWB 14.59 http://bsalsa.com/ EmbeddedWB- 14.59  from: http://bsalsa.com/ ; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
    [HTTP_HOST] => localhost
    [CONTENT_LENGTH] => 70
    [HTTP_CONNECTION] => Keep-Alive
    [HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL] => no-cache
    [PATH] => C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;;C:\www\openssl\bin;C:\www\Apache22\bin;C:\www\php5;C:\www\mysql5\bin;C:\www\perl\bin
    [SystemRoot] => C:\WINDOWS
    [COMSPEC] => C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
    [PATHEXT] => .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
    [WINDIR] => C:\WINDOWS
    [SERVER_SIGNATURE] => 
    [SERVER_SOFTWARE] => Apache/2.2.4 (Win32) PHP/5.2.2
    [SERVER_NAME] => localhost
    [SERVER_ADDR] => 127.0.0.1
    [SERVER_PORT] => 80
    [REMOTE_ADDR] => 127.0.0.1
    [DOCUMENT_ROOT] => D:/WEBDEV/wamp/www
    [SERVER_ADMIN] => webmaster@localhost
    [SCRIPT_FILENAME] => D:/WEBDEV/wamp/www/qhs/index.php
    [REMOTE_PORT] => 1073
    [GATEWAY_INTERFACE] => CGI/1.1
    [SERVER_PROTOCOL] => HTTP/1.1
    [REQUEST_METHOD] => POST
    [QUERY_STRING] => 
    [REQUEST_URI] => /qhs/?
    [SCRIPT_NAME] => /qhs/index.php
    [PHP_SELF] => /qhs/index.php
    [REQUEST_TIME] => 1181157014
    [argv] => Array
        (
            [0] => 
        )
 
    [argc] => 1
)
 

Similarly, after submission on the address bar I get the following:

http://localhost/qhs/?<?php%20echo%20(HREF_GET)%20;%20?>

I defined the following too that you may find in the codelet above:
HREF_GET <-- this one holds the $_GET values before submitting the form, which I intend to send back again to retain the present status of the site.
$_GET['cf'] <-- is a variable that is set for 'forbidding' the form to display anymore. This is set once the form is submitted.

But none of them seem to listen to my feeble instructions.

Please ask if anymore infos are needed to help me out.

I'd really appreciate if somebody points me to a good direction to solve it.

Thanks in advance.

[epots9]

does it run once and break when u click submit? or does it not run at all?

[pbmods]

Heya, smnuman. Welcome to TSDN!

include acts a little oddly unless the file you include:

• Has no PHP code in it whatsoever, or...
• Is only comprised of PHP code.

The file you're including contains text both inside and outside of PHP tags, so you're going to hit a bunch of problems.

My recommendation would be to alter your include file to only contain PHP code (i.e., use a bunch of echo or print statements).

[smnuman]

does it run once and break when u click submit? or does it not run at all?

It doesn't break, but doesn't pass my values as it should have. I am just guessing it is not escaping HTML properly.Or the HTML is not escaping PHP properly. FYI, it is a .php file though.

[smnuman]

Heya, smnuman. Welcome to TSDN!

include acts a little oddly unless the file you include:

• Has no PHP code in it whatsoever, or...
• Is only comprised of PHP code.

The file you're including contains text both inside and outside of PHP tags, so you're going to hit a bunch of problems.

My recommendation would be to alter your include file to only contain PHP code (i.e., use a bunch of echo or print statements).

Hi, pbmods, thanks for the warm welcome!

Regarding the alternative, I am not sure that is a path i can walk in. 'Cos I got a number of pages(100+) and some more are team fed. My system of content management must work with these intricacies in, unfortunately or may be fortunately :( :P

Thanks anyway for the help. But I think I'll need more of it now.

[pbmods]

There is a method at the bottom of the PHP manual page that might do it.

[smnuman]

There is a method at the bottom of the PHP manual page that might do it.

@pbmods
Gee, thanks for everything. Yes I have tried that <I believe that you are refering to example 16.10 >. But than I had gone back to your first suggestion -- bit less work in that i guess.( That's why some are experts, others are learners:) + bit of lazyness too;) ) I just made a way to pull all those files in a string and replacing things in them like a template.

Thanks to all.
For now my problem is solved. Although I'll change it to that reference to 16.10 in future.