Self-calling forms

[pschmehl]

I'm a bit confused about how to do this. We have created a petition form on our live site - http://vvfh.org/petition/ProcessForm.php

It works fine. I'm working on migrating the site to a different hosting situation, and I decided to use Joomla as the CMS. (Previously all my sites were hand built using vi.)

I tried to port this application over using Jumi, but it doesn't work. Here's the page: http://yyy.specialforcesphotos.com/home ... ction.html

Looks fine but when you click on Submit you get a 404. I found this page: http://2glux.com/projects/jumi/tutorial ... s-tutorial. I think it points to the problem. The form needs to be self calling. But, when I tried to adapt it, I failed. (I'm not a programmer. I'm a retired computer security guy who can fumble his way around in code and use Google a lot.

But I'm not sure how to incorporate it into the existing framework. Here's the current index.php file:

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<?php
        date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
        #phpinfo();
        require_once "DB.php";
        include "ShowBanner.php";
        include "ShowSocialMedia.php";
        echo '<table>';
        echo '<tr>';
        echo '<td style="vertical-align:top; padding:1px; width:700px;">';
                include "ShowPetition.php";
        echo '</td>';
        echo '<td style="vertical-align:top;">';
                include "ShowForm.php";
        echo '</td>';
        echo '</tr>';
        echo '<tr>';
        echo '<td style="vertical-align:top;">';
                include "ShowReasons.php";
        echo '</td>';
        echo '<td style="vertical-align:top;">';
                include "ShowRecent.php";
        echo '<br>';
                include "ShowDonations.php";
        echo '</td>';
        echo '</tr>';
        echo '</table>';
                include "ShowFooter.php";
?>

Here's the existing ShowForm.php file:

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<form method="post" action="ProcessForm.php">
        <p><input type="text" name="firstname" id="firstname" placeholder="*First Name" required /></p>
        <p><input type="text" name="lastname" id="lastname" placeholder="*Last Name" required /></p>
        <p><input type="email" name="email" id="email" placeholder="*Email Address" required /></p>
        <?php include "ShowCountries.php";?>
        <p><input type="text" name="zipcode" id="zipcode" value="" maxlength="10" placeholder="Zip Code"></p>
        <p><textarea id="service" name="service" rows="3"  maxlength="500" placeholder="If you are a Vietnam Vet, please list your unit(s) and years of assignment."></textarea></p>
        <p><textarea id="reason" name="reason" rows="3"  maxlength="500" placeholder="Why is this petition important to you?"></textarea></p>
        <p><input type="submit" value="SIGN"/></p>
        <?php echo '<p><label>'.$GLOBALS['ErrorMsg'].'</lable></p>'?>
        <div id="Agreement">
        By signing, you agree to our <a href="http://www.vvfh.org/tos.html" target="_blank">terms of service</a> and <a href="http://www.vvfh.org/privacy.html" target="_blank">privacy policy</a>.
        </div>
        <br>
</form>

I tried stealing the code in the tutorial and adapting the ShowForm.php page, but when I did that, the form no longer appears in the page.

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<?php
function self_form()
{

$anchor = "myform"; //the $anchor variable we will need later
echo "<a name = $anchor></a>"; //the html anchor we will need later
echo '<td style="vertical-align:top; width="500;">';

if(!isSet($_POST['email'])) //if there is no email address then write the form
{
  $return_url = get_return_url($anchor);
?>
<form method="post" action="ProcessForm.php">
        <p><input type="text" name="firstname" id="firstname" placeholder="*First Name" required /></p>
        <p><input type="text" name="lastname" id="lastname" placeholder="*Last Name" required /></p>
        <p><input type="email" name="email" id="email" placeholder="*Email Address" required /></p>
        <?php include "ShowCountries.php";?>
        <p><input type="text" name="zipcode" id="zipcode" value="" maxlength="10" placeholder="Zip Code"></p>
        <p><textarea id="service" name="service" rows="3"  maxlength="500" placeholder="If you are a Vietnam Vet, please list your unit(s) and years of assignment."></textarea></p>
        <p><textarea id="reason" name="reason" rows="3"  maxlength="500" placeholder="Why is this petition important to you?"></textarea></p>
        <p><input type="submit" value="SIGN"/></p>
        <?php echo '<p><label>'.$GLOBALS['ErrorMsg'].'</lable></p>'?>
        <div id="Agreement">
        By signing, you agree to our <a href="http://www.vvfh.org/tos.html" target="_blank">terms of service</a> and <a href="http://www.vvfh.org/privacy.html" target="_blank">privacy policy</a>.
        </div>
        <br>
</form>
<?php
}
else //if there is an email thank the signer and write the email into the database
{
  echo "<b>Thank you for your signing out petition.</b>";
  write_data($_POST['email']);
  echo "</td>";
}
}
function get_return_url($anchor)
{
if ($query_string = mosGetParam( $_SERVER, 'QUERY_STRING', '' ))

{
  $return = 'index.php?' . $query_string;
}
else
{

  $return = 'index.php';
// an url starts with index.php now

// converting & to &amp; for xtml compliance

$return = str_replace( '&', '&amp;', $return );
//adding anchor to the end of url

$return .="#$anchor"; //adding anchor to url
//prepand http:// to the beginning of the url
return sefRelToAbs($return);

}
?>
}

Should I be wrapping the index.php page in this code instead?

[pschmehl]

I tried putting the entire "wrapper" code in the index.php file, but the form still does not print on the page.

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<?php
        # Incorporate Joomla code to use mosGetParam
        define( '_JEXEC', 1 );
        define('JPATH_BASE', dirname(__FILE__) );//this is when we are in the root
        define( 'DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR );

        require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'defines.php' );
        require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'framework.php' );

        $mainframe =& JFactory::getApplication('site');
        $mainframe->initialise();
        # Hardy's original code
        date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
        #phpinfo();
        require_once "DB.php";
        include "ShowBanner.php";
        include "ShowSocialMedia.php";
        echo '<table>';
        echo '<tr>';
        echo '<td style="vertical-align:top; padding:1px; width:700px;">';
                include "ShowPetition.php";
        echo '</td>';
        echo '<td style="vertical-align:top;">';
        function self_form()
        {

                $anchor = "myform"; //the $anchor variable we will need later
                echo "<a name = $anchor></a>"; //the html anchor we will need later
                echo '<td style="vertical-align:top; width="500;">';
                if(!isSet($_POST['email'])) //if there is no email address then write the form
                {
                $return_url = get_return_url($anchor);
                echo '<form method="post" action="ProcessForm.php">';
                        echo '<p><input type="text" name="firstname" id="firstname" placeholder="*First Name" required /></p>';
                        echo '<p><input type="text" name="lastname" id="lastname" placeholder="*Last Name" required /></p>';
                        echo '<p><input type="email" name="email" id="email" placeholder="*Email Address" required /></p>';
                        include "ShowCountries.php";
                        echo '<p><input type="text" name="zipcode" id="zipcode" value="" maxlength="10" placeholder="Zip Code"></p>';
                        echo '<p><textarea id="service" name="service" rows="3"  maxlength="500" placeholder="If you are a Vietnam Vet, please list your unit(s) and years of assignment."></textarea></p>';
                        echo '<p><textarea id="reason" name="reason" rows="3"  maxlength="500" placeholder="Why is this petition important to you?"></textarea></p>';
                        echo '<p><input type="submit" value="SIGN"/></p>';
                        echo '<p><label>'.$GLOBALS['ErrorMsg'].'</lable></p>';
                        echo '<div id="Agreement">';
                        echo 'By signing, you agree to our <a href="http://www.vvfh.org/tos.html" target="_blank">terms of service</a> and <a href="http://www.vvfh.org/privacy.html" target="_blank">privacy policy</a>.';
                        echo '</div>';
                        echo '<br>';
                echo '</form>';
                }
                else //if there is an email thank the signer and write the email into the database
                {
                echo "<b>Thank you for your signing out petition.</b>";
                write_data($_POST['email']);
                echo "</td>";
        }
}
        echo '</td>';
        echo '</tr>';
        echo '<tr>';
        echo '<td style="vertical-align:top;">';
                include "ShowReasons.php";
        echo '</td>';
        echo '<td style="vertical-align:top;">';
                include "ShowRecent.php";
        echo '<br>';
                include "ShowDonations.php";
        echo '</td>';
        echo '</tr>';
        echo '</table>';
                include "ShowFooter.php";
function get_return_url($anchor)
{
if ($query_string = mosGetParam( $_SERVER, 'QUERY_STRING', '' ))

{
  $return = 'index.php?' . $query_string;
}
else
{

  $return = 'index.php';
}
// an url starts with index.php now

// converting & to &amp; for xtml compliance

$return = str_replace( '&', '&amp;', $return );
//adding anchor to the end of url

$return .="#$anchor"; //adding anchor to url
//prepand http:// to the beginning of the url
return sefRelToAbs($return);

}
?>