THank you too dec, I

DSSR — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:41:58 +0000

THank you too dec, I appreciate it ...

You know, tbh, I tried for nearly 3 months to figure this out, and last resort was to come back here since I know, and for FREE, that you have the best service around..Better than Experts Exchange, and they charge.....

Thanks once again for the best service ever!...

Cheers

Another TWF success story -

decibel.places — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:10:02 +0000

Another TWF success story - Yay team !

Glad I could help! If you

greg — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:41:31 +0000

Glad I could help!

If you get stuck again, with anything, just shout.

Oh WOW!, it worked

DSSR — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:47:35 +0000

Oh WOW!, it worked :DDDDD...You're a genius....

WOOOOOHOOOOOO......

ITS GREEN, ITS ALL GREEN BABBBBBAAAYYY.....

Ah, I dont know how to thank you man....maybe 10$ paypal if that's not an insult to you

Cheers bud...

My head is now free and clear.....

That's fine. The basics of

greg — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:14:00 +0000

That's fine. The basics of CSS is really easy, and (if you have time) reading a brief guide is worthwhile even if you only tinker with a site now and then.

If you want to learn, this is a great tutorial
http://www.tizag.com/cssT/

Take you about an hour or so to read through it. Then refer back to it for the few things you need, like adding classes http://www.tizag.com/cssT/class.php

Use the following code to make it validate
It's only a quick fix though and as you have an external stylesheet you should be adding a CSS class to that to be used in the fieldset rather than like I have inline (style=)

Under this:

Add This
<fieldset style="border: 0;">

Then under this

<input type="submit" value="Request Drop Shippers" />
<br />
<br />

Add this
</fieldset>

Then (hopefully) you can check with W3C Validator and see that green bar that brings a sigh of relief and feeling of accomplishment!

Thing is, I don't know CSS

DSSR — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:53:18 +0000

Thing is, I don't know CSS either, but you know what, Ill give it a go I sorta understand what you mean. You're a great help mate, thanks a lot.

Be back soon.

Don't worry about anything

greg — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:31:00 +0000

Don't worry about anything else, it's not important. I just pointed it out as I noticed it while debugging

The issue is with XHTML strict, it doesn't allow inline elements to be immediate children of things like <form>.
So you need to add a block-level element, such as <p> or <fieldset>

So something like

<p>Your Email:</p>
<fieldset>
<input type="text" name="visitormail" size="35" />
</fieldset>

And in your css file (common.css) create a new class for the styling for the fieldsets as required
I would guess the minimum you want is border: 0;

Yes, you are correct, I

DSSR — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:04:08 +0000

Yes, you are correct, I changed my index.html to .php and now it works ...I get IP browser, and refer data in my email also.

But, my problem is the validation. I'm not going to worry about the other stuff because Im just too daft to understand it. Sorry to make you write all that.

I just need the erros fixed and Im set.

Thanks for all your time mate, I appreciate it.

Follow up.... I see your

greg — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:43:54 +0000

Follow up....

I see your contact form IS a php file (contact.php), and my IP and other data IS showing correctly in the form..

<input type="hidden" name="ip" value="xx.xxx.xxx.xxx" />
<input type="hidden" name="httpref" value="http://www.only-the-truth.com/" />
<input type="hidden" name="httpagent" value="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4" />

(I changed my ip to xx's, but it does show my real ip correctly)

I really think your homepage (probably index.html) is NOT a PHP file.
That will resolve these issues (although you will have to obviously change any links that went to the old page name)

The form might seem to work

greg — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:33:22 +0000

The form might seem to work ok, and send data and the email address as you expect, but it wont be sending all the data you want.
It's NOT getting my IP address, and NOT adding it to the variable $ipi, therefore it ISN'T sending the VALUE of that variable (my IP) along to the requestform.php page.
It's sending the PHP code.

Take for example one of your inputs from your page source.
<input type="hidden" name="ip" value="<?php echo $ipi ?>" />
All the code in your page source is HTML only, as that's all a browser can understand, so when the PHP code is done and finished on the server it sends the resulting HTML to the browser - that's your page source.
So the data/text you see there for the value= is how it will be sent.

When the form is sent to requestform.php the POSTed data
for the IP ($_POST['ip'];) will ALWAYS be this: <?php echo $ipi ?>

Also, in your page source, I see this:

<?php
$ipi = getenv("REMOTE_ADDR");
$httprefi = getenv ("HTTP_REFERER");
$httpagenti = getenv ("HTTP_USER_AGENT");
?>

It's doing nothing in PHP. I shouldn't be able to see that.

Incidently, if requestform.php gets all this data from the form and sends the email on, you can instead get the IP address, referrer and user agent on that page. Save server resources as it doesn't have to send all that data in POST and you don't need the three hidden fields in your form.
Which can actually be bypassed by the way. If I wanted to send you an email without you getting any IP or other data from me, I could do that easily the way you have it.
With it on the requestform.php page, that's not possible.