download a file from a form button

[Doug]

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="download.php"
onSubmit="

MM_validateForm('LastName','','R');MM_validateForm ('email','','NisEmail');
MM_validateForm('email','','R');
MM_validateForm('FirstName','','R');
return document.MM_returnValue">
<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>

[Erwin Moller]

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

[Erwin Moller]

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

[Tim Roberts]

"Doug" <fa****@toast.net> 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?
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- Tim Roberts, ti**@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.