Question

I am new to Netbeans. I have created a simple php project. It consists of a form and I’ve written a separate Javascript file to validate its fields. I tried running the project outside netbeans, it works fine. I recently imported the project to netbeans but javascript doesn’t seem to work well. When I try opening the page(form page) in the browser, the entire javascript file appears on the page.
I do not know where I’m going wrong. As I’m new to netbeans I am unable to rectify it. Kindly help.

My Javascript file is named Validation.js and is in the js folder.

function ValidateForm(theForm)
{
  //returns true/false after validation 
}

My php file looks similar to this.

<?php include "js/Validation.js"; 
  //if validation returns true
 if(isset($_POST))
 {
    if(isset ($_POST['bt_save']) && $_POST['bt_save'] == 'Submit')
    {
         //code to insert fields into database after validation
    }
 }
?>
<form method="post" name="form1" id="form1" onsubmit="return ValidateForm(this);">
 <!--form elements-->
 <input type="submit" name="bt_save" value="Submit"/>
</form>

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Your include is wrong, if you use php include it just loads the page.

Try using <script type="text/javascript" src="js/Validation.js"></script>. instead of include "js/Validation.js".

So your new file would be something like.

<?php
  //if validation returns true
 if(isset($_POST))
 {
    if(isset ($_POST['bt_save']) && $_POST['bt_save'] == 'Submit')
    {
         //code to insert fields into database after validation
    }
 }
?>
<form method="post" name="form1" id="form1" onsubmit="return ValidateForm(this);">
 <!--form elements-->
 <input type="submit" name="bt_save" value="Submit"/>
</form>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/Validation.js"></script>