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Asked: 2026-05-21T22:40:38+00:00

So I’ve got a fill out form on an HTML page passed to a

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So I’ve got a fill out form on an HTML page passed to a PHP script. The PHP runs fine but I’m having some trouble getting the HTML on the PHP page to display. If in the body of the HTML I do <?php echo $message; ?> the variable displays fine. But as soon as I try to add formatting (divs and headers specifically) nothing displays on the page. Here’s what I’ve got.

<?php
session_start();

//declare variables
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
$comments = $_POST['comments'];
$date = $_POST['date'];
$time = $_POST['time'];
$company = 'Test company';

$_SESSION['name'] = $name;
//strip of invalid chars
$date = str_replace( '/' , '.' , $date);

//fopen
$pathToMe = dirname(__FILE__);
$fileName = $pathToMe . "/days/" . $date;
$fileHandle = fopen($fileName, 'w') or die("Failure.");
fwrite($fileHandle, $name . "\n" . $email . "\n" . $phone . "\n" . $date . "\n" . $time . "\n" . $comments . "\n" . "\n" ); 
fclose($fileHandle);

//email to company
$to = 'test@testserver.com';
$subject = 'Apointment scheduled online';
$body = "An apointment was just scheduled online.\n" . $name . "\n" . $email . "\n" . $phone . "\n" . $date . "\n" . $time . "\n" . $comments . "\n" . "\n" . "Please follow up to confirm.";
if (mail($to, $subject, $body)) {
    $companyConfirm = 'yes';
} else {
    $companyConfirm = 'no';
}

//client confirm
$to = $email;
$subject = 'Confirming your appointment';
$body = "Hello " . $name . "," . "\n" . "\n"  . "You recently booked an appointment with " . $company . " on " . $date . " at " . $time . ".\n" . "\n" . "We will follow up soon to confirm.";
if (mail ($to, $subject, $body)) {
    $confirm = 'yes';
} else {
    $confirm = 'no';
}

//confirm email
if ($companyConfirm = $confirm) {
    if ($companyConfirm = 'yes') {
        $message = "Your appointment has been confirmed. You will recieve a confirmation email shortly";
        print "<div id=\"jqt\"><div id=\"home\" class=\"current\"><h1>Scheduler</h1><ul class=\"edit rounded\"><li>" . $message;
    }
    else {}
} else {
    $message = "There was a problem making your appointment. Please call to schedule.";
}

$_SESSION['message'] = $message;
?>

<html>
<body>
<div id="home">
<div class="toolbar">
<h1>Scheduler</h1>
<a class="back" href="#home">Back</a>
</div>
<ul class="edit rounded">
<li><?php echo $message; ?></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Any thoughts as how to get $message displayed inline with formatting would be greatly appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Have you tried in other browsers?

    It seems that you have an extra </div> before </body>

    If that is the case, even if it does not show up on your browser window, you should see it if you look at the html source.

    EDIT: and you also have that print statement which leaves a a li and a lot of div tags opened

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