I'm getting a strange error when I try to submit user-generated data to a database via PHP commands. When I hit the submit button below, instead of the PHP page running its' function I am presented with a display of the raw code on my browser. I have a command at the bottom of my HTML page that looks like this:
<form action="insert.php" method="post">
<input type="submit">
</form>
So that when the user hits the submit button, the PHP file insert.php (detailed below) is called to input the answers onto a database, separating each answer into it's own field.
Here is the code I'm working with:
<?php
$con=mysqli_connect("host","username","password","database");
// Check connection
if (mysqli_connect())
{
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_errno();
}
$sql="INSERT INTO Persons (Name, Serif, Width, Height, Spacing, Weight)
VALUES
('$_POST[answer]','$_POST[answer]','$_POST[answer]','$_POST[answer]','$_POST[answer]','$_POST[answer]')";
if (!mysqli_query($con,$sql))
{
die('Error: ' . mysqli_error($con));
}
echo "1 record added";
mysqli_close($con);
?>
Right now, the questions are in a and not a (is there a functional difference in this case?). They look like:
<form class="testAns" id="widthAns">
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="skinny">-25%
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="skinny">-10%
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="mid">normal
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="fat">+10%
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="fat">+25%
</form>
<form class="testAns" id="spaceAns">
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="small">-25%
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="small">-10%
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="mid">normal
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="wide">+10%
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="wide">+25%
</form>
<form class="testAns" id="weightAns">
<input type="radio" name="wanswer" value="light">-25%
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="light">-10%
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="mid">normal
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="heavy">+10%
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="heavy">+25%
</form>
<form method="post" action="insert.php" class="testAns" id="heightAns">
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="short">-25%
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="short">-10%
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="mid">normal
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="tall">+10%
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="tall">+25%
</form>
The important part is for the "value" associated with each button to be logged into the database. For example, if a user selects "+10%" I want be able to log the word "heavy".And then there are two text input fields:
<form id="intro">
City: <input type="text" name="answer"><br>
Why you are using this tool:<input type="text" name="answer">
</form>
So for these text fields I need the user input logged as the answer.
