my script does the weirdest thing... after following all your tips it actually works..in a way...
i turned ON registering globals, i correctly used POST and tried REQUEST when using POST for the form method...
when no action has been registered it will correctly display my normal page, as soon as you hit the submit button it will correctly display the next page content.
so why do i still see the following error on the front page? >.<
Notice: Undefined index: action in D:\Abyss Web Server\htdocs\testing\vote.php on line 11
here is my code
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Heers Poll</title>
<?php
$action=$_REQUEST['action'];
$dbhost = "localhost";
$dbname = "mydb";
$dbuser = "******";
$dbpass = "******";
$db = mysql_connect($dbhost,$dbuser,$dbpass);
mysql_select_db($dbname,$db);
$result = mysql_query("SELECT title,question,id FROM poll_data ORDER BY id LIMIT 1",$db);
$PollData = mysql_fetch_array($result);
$result2 = mysql_query("SELECT option1,option2,option3,votes FROM poll_data WHERE id = '" .$PollData['id'] . "' ORDER BY 'id' DESC LIMIT 1",$db);
$VoteData = mysql_fetch_array($result2);
if($VoteData["option1"] != 0) {
$VotePercent1 = Round(($VoteData["option1"]/$VoteData["votes"]) * 100) . "%";
}
else {
$VotePercent1 = 0 . "%";
}
if($VoteData["option2"] != 0) {
$VotePercent2 = Round(($VoteData["option2"]/$VoteData["votes"]) * 100) . "%";
}
else {
$VotePercent2 = 0 . "%";
}
if($VoteData["option3"] != 0) {
$VotePercent3 = Round(($VoteData["option3"]/$VoteData["votes"]) * 100) . "%";
}
else {
$VotePercent3 = 0 . "%";
}
if($action == '') {
$contents= "
<form method='POST' action='vote.php'>
<input type='hidden' value='heers' name='action'>
<table width='500' border='1' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='8' summary='dolf'>
<tr>
<td colspan='3'><b>" . $PollData['title'] . " - " . $PollData['question'] . "</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width='50'>
<input type='radio' name='Vote' value='option1'>Yes
</td>
<td width='100'>
<img src='bar.gif' width='" . $VotePercent1 . "' height='20' alt='heers'>
</td>
<td>" . $VoteData['option1'] . " Votes (" . $VotePercent1 . ")</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width='50'>
<input type='radio' name='Vote' value='option2'>No
</td>
<td width='100'>
<img src='bar.gif' width='" . $VotePercent2 . " ' height='20' alt='heers'>
</td>
<td>" . $VoteData['option2'] . " Votes (" . $VotePercent2 . ")</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width='50'>
<input type='radio' name='Vote' value='option3'>Dolf!
</td>
<td width='100'>
<img src='bar.gif' width='" . $VotePercent3 . "' height='20' alt='heers'>
</td>
<td>" . $VoteData['option3'] . " Votes (" . $VotePercent3 . ")</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan='3'>
<center><input type='submit' name='Submit' value='Vote'></center>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>";
}
elseif($action == "heers"){ $contents = "wow"; }
echo $contents;
?>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>