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Asked: 2026-05-18T09:52:46+00:00

I am trying to get a guest book to work using PHP. I have

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I am trying to get a guest book to work using PHP. I have managed to make it function, the thing is that I don’t want the guest book to be in my index.php. I want it to be on a dynamic page, index.php?=guestbook for instance.

The problem is that when I put the code on another page rather than index.php the thing that happends when I fill out the fields and press the submit button, I get redirected to index.php and nothing is submited to my database. This all works fine as long as the code is in the index.php.

My first question is: What is causing this?
Second question: How do I get the code to function properly eventhough I have it in index.php?=guestbook?

Thanks in advance!

I am using xampp btw.

See below for the code:

    <html>

<head>
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheet.css" type="text/css">
</head>

<body>

<h1>Guestbook</h1><hr>

<?php

mysql_select_db ("guestbookdatabase") or die ("Couldn't find database!");

$queryget = mysql_query ("SELECT * FROM guestbook ORDER BY id ASC") or die("Error witch query.");

$querygetrownum = mysql_num_rows ($queryget);

if ($querygetrownum == 0)
 echo "No posts have been made yet. Be the first!";

while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc ($queryget))
{
 $id = $row ['id'];
 $name = $row ['name'];
 $email = $row ['email'];
 $message = $row ['message'];
 $date = $row ['date'];
 $time = $row ['time'];

  if ($id%2)
   $guestbookcomment = "guestbookcomment";
  else
   $guestbookcomment = "guestbookcommentdark";


   echo "
    <div class='$guestbookcomment'>
     <div class='postheader'>
     <b>Posted by $name ($email) on $date at $time</b>
     </div>

      <div class='message'>
      ".nl2br(strip_tags($message))."
      </div>
    </div>
   ";}

echo "<hr>";

if($_POST['submit'])
{
 $name = $_POST['name'];
 $email = $_POST['email'];
 $message = $_POST['message'];
 $date = date("Y-m-d");
 $time = date("H:i:s");

  if ($name&&$email&&$message)
  {
   $querypost = mysql_query ("INSERT INTO guestbook VALUES ('','$name','$email','$message','$date','$time')");
   echo "Please wait... <meta http-equiv='refresh' content='2'>";
  }
  else
   echo "Please fill out all fields.";
}

echo "
<form action='index.php' method='POST'>

Your name: <input type='text' name='name' class='name' maxlength='25' ><br> <br>

Your email: <input type='text' name='email' class='email' maxlength='35'><br><br>

<div class='your_message'>
Your message:<input type='textarea' name='message' class='messagetextarea' maxlength='250'><br><br>
</div>

<input type='submit' name='submit' value='Post'>

</form>

";

?>

</body>

</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    1) The action property of your form should be the same as the name of the file where the code is in. 🙂 You create a guestbook.php, for example, but the action still is ‘index.php’. Hence the problem. You send the POST data to index.php but there’s no code to process it.

    2) The query string doesn’t affect the form. Only the filename.

    I hope I understood your problem correctly.

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