form element not being printed out

Question

I'm fetching some HTML codes from a PHP function and printing it. Something like this:

// the html code
<div><?php echo $this->create_form(); ?></div>

//the php code
function create_form()
{
    return '<form method="POST" id="myform"><input blah blah.../></form>';
}

The problem is that, all elements "inside" the form gets printed, but the form itself is not! For example:

<div><input blah blah.../></div>

If I change "form" with something else like "div", then it gets printed, but whenever I put form element it just doesn't want to be printed!!

What do you mean by printed? the text of the controls itself or when the controls are generated? — Conrad Lotz, May 27 '15 at 03:52
The PHP method is returning a string that contains the form element and other stuff...I'm echoing the string between that DIV. That's what I meant by print... — Hossain Alhaidari, May 27 '15 at 03:53
From the looks of it when you run your code it should create the form element and one input box in a browser. When you view source then you would see the `form` element is present - http://codepad.viper-7.com/2fcQ9X — Conrad Lotz, May 27 '15 at 03:55
That's the point..there's no form in source! So there must be something in my code that does this to the form... — Hossain Alhaidari, May 27 '15 at 03:58
Does printing a form inside another form might be the problem? — Hossain Alhaidari, May 27 '15 at 04:04
No, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/379610/can-you-nest-html-forms. — Conrad Lotz, May 27 '15 at 04:05
Well I found something...If I put an empty
before those codes, then the form will appear!! Strange! — Hossain Alhaidari, May 27 '15 at 04:10

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 09 '15 at 10:08

0

Try this

<div><?php echo create_form(); ?></div>
<?php
//the php code
function create_form()
{
    return '<form method="POST" id="myform"><input class="namefield" type="text"/></form>';
}

?>

answered Jun 09 '15 at 10:08

What is the difference between your and above code?? – Manish Jangir Jun 09 '15 at 10:10
$this-> does not declare – Jun 09 '15 at 11:38
He may be using the function in a class. – Manish Jangir Jun 09 '15 at 13:28
yeah may be you are right he might use the function in class – Jun 14 '15 at 10:49

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