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Asked: 2026-05-30T09:25:13+00:00

I have a simple page (below) with a form. The form will submit if

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I have a simple page (below) with a form. The form will submit if the action=’ask.php’. (ask.php is the current page and the code below). When i change ask.php to question.php (another page on in the folder) the form does not submit. Why is this? Is the form redirecting before the data is placed in the database?

ask.php code;

<?php session_start(); ?>
       <!DOCTYPE html>
      <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
        <head>
        <title></title>

      <script type='text/javascript' src='http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.1.min.js'></script>
      <script type='text/javascript' src='http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/1.4.0/bootstrap-modal.js'></script>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/bootstrap.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />

         </head>
          <body>
       <?php include '../css/bar.php'; ?>
    <div id='content'>
<?php include '../nav.php'; 
?>



<?php


if (isset($_POST['submit'])){
include '../connect.php';
$question=mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['question']);
$detail=mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['detail']);
$date=date("d M Y");
$time=time();
$user=$_SESSION['id'];
$put=mysql_query("INSERT INTO questions VALUES ('','$question','$detail','$date','$time','$user','subject','0')");

$result=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM questions WHERE user='$user' AND time='$time'");
    while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){

         $q=$row['id'];

        }
}

?>

<form method='POST' action='question.php'>   //won't submit because action is question.php?
    <p>Question:</p>
    <p><input type='text' name='question' id='question'  maxlength='200'></p>
    <p>Add some detail (optional):</p>
    <p><textarea id='detail' name='detail' ></textarea></p>

    <p><input type='submit' value='submit' name='submit'></p>
</form>


</div>
<?php include '../footer.php'; ?>
</body>

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  1. Editorial Team

    Jeroen is right:

    The action page should include this kind of information, in order to get the information to the database:

    Part one and two make the data ready to be inserted into database:

    $question = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['question']); // Part 1
$detail = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['detail']); // Part 2
$con = mysql_connect("server","username","password");
mysql_select_db("YourDatabase", $con);

$sql="INSERT INTO YourTable (question, details) VALUES ('$question','$detail')";
if (!mysql_query($sql,$con)) {
    //Some error handling here,
    // Stay away from using die in all but development
}
mysql_close($con)

    You should test format with preg_match, too, to check data is in expected format.
    Hope that helps

    EDIT!

    This method of connection is outdated!
    Use PDO for db connection.
    Some docs

    PDO Article

    PDO php docs

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