Where to test scripts

@wietsedAug 13.2006

Hello all,

I am new here.
I am just beginning to learn PHP, which is very interesting, and I have made a few tiny scripts. I’d like to test these out to see if they work and here is my problem. The webspace I have from my ISP-server doesn’t support PHP.

So, where would I go to test these scripts?

Do you guys know any free webhost that supports PHP?
Or what may be also possible, I’ve been reading in a couple topics this:
“do you have PHP installed?”

Installing PHP?? I’d love to hear some more about that.
How do I get PHP installed on my pc?

Well, any help will be appriciated

wietsed

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@NogDogAug 13.2006 — #You can install [url=http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html]XAMPP[/url] on your PC, which will install Apache web server, PHP, Perl, and MySQL; allowing you to test scripts locally on your PC (Linux, Windows, Mac are all supported).

@wietsedauthorAug 13.2006 — #Hey, thanks a lot!!!

I've been playing around with it all evening, even got some mail functions working (mailing to @localhost adress).

Very nice program, now I can continue with my PHP scripts.

Right now I am working on a form that needs to be mailed in HTML.

Haven't figured it out yet.

Here is the HTML form:

[code=html]
 <form name="form" method="post" action="mailform.php">
 <table border="0" cellspacing="1" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="700">
 <tr class="text_main10">
 <td width=75%>Name:</td>
 <td width=25% aligh=left>Date:</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td width="75%" height="12">
 <input type="text" name="NAME" size="75"></td>
 <td><input type="text" name="DATE" size="20"></td>
 </tr>
 </table>
 
 <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="700">
 <tr>
 <td height="5" width="346"></td>
 <td height="5" width="174"></td>
 <td height="5" width="176"></td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="text_main10">
 <td width="75%">Current address:</td>
 <td width="25%">Phone:</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td width="75%"><input type="text" name="ADRESS" size="75"></td>
 <td width="25%"><input type="text" name="PHONE" size="20"></td> 

 </tr>
 </table>
 
 <table border="0" cellspacing="1" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="700">
 <tr class="text_main10">
 <td width=40%>Birthplace:</td>
 <td width=35%>Birthdate:</td>
 <td width=25%>Sex:</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td width="40%" height="12">
 <input type="text" name="BIRTHPLACE" size="40"></td>
 <td width=35%><input type="text" name="BIRTHDATE" size="20"></td>
 <td width=25%>
 <select name="SEX" />
 <option>select
 <option>Male
 <option>Female
 </select>
 </td>
 </tr>
 </table>
 </form>
 [/code]

And here is the PHP script (mailform.php):

[code=php]
 <?php
 
 $to      = 'myself@localhost';
 $subject = 'Test form';
 $headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "rn";
 $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "rn";
 
 
 
 if (($NAME == "") || ($DATE == "") || ($ADRESS == "") || ($PHONE == ""))
 {
 echo "<form name=form method=post action=mailform.php>";
 echo "<p class=bodymd>The following fields are required, you haven't filled them out.</p>";
 echo "<p class=bodymd>Fill in the ones you missed, they are listed below.</p>";
 }
 
 if ($NAME == "") {	echo "<p class=bodymd>Your Name<br><input type=text name=NAME></p>";}
 else {echo "<input type=hidden name=Name value=$NAME>";}
 
 if ($DATE == ""){ echo "<p class=bodymd>Today's Date<br><input type=text name=DATE></p>";}
 else {echo "<input type=hidden name=DATE value=$DATE>";}
 
 if ($ADRESS == ""){ echo "<p class=bodymd>Street Adress<br><input type=text name=ADRESS></p>";}
 else {echo "<input type=hidden name=ADRESS value=$ADRESS>";}
 
 if ($PHONE == ""){ echo "<p class=bodymd>Phone<br><input type=text name=PHONE></p>";}
 else {echo "<input type=hidden name=PHONE value=$PHONE>";}
 
 
 
 if (($NAME == "") || ($DATE == "") || ($ADRESS == "") || ($PHONE == ""))
 {
 echo "<input type=submit name=Submit value=Submit>";
 echo "<input type=reset name=Reset value=Clear Form>";
 echo "</form>";
 }
 else
 {
 $message = 
 "Name: $NAMEn
 Date: $DATEn
 Adress: $ADRESSn
 Phone: $PHONEn
 Birthplace: $BIRTHPLACEn
 Birthdate: $BIRTHDATEn
 Sex: $SEXn
 ";
 
 
  $extra = 
 "From: $NAMErn
 ";
 
 
  mail ($to, $subject, $message, $extra);
  echo "<p class=bodymd>Thanks for your application, $Name.</p>";
  echo "<p class=bodymd>A response will be sent to $Email as soon as possible.</p>";
 }
 ?>
 [/code]

Now instead of :

[code=php]	$message = 
 "Name: $NAMEn
 Date: $DATEn
 Adress: $ADRESSn
 Phone: $PHONEn
 Birthplace: $BIRTHPLACEn
 Birthdate: $BIRTHDATEn
 Sex: $SEXn
 ";
 [/code]

I wanted something like this:

[code=php]	$message = 
 "<html>
 <head><body>
 <table border=0>
 <tr>
 <td>Name</td> <td>$name</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>Date</td> <td>$date</td>
 
 etc etc
 
 ";
 [/code]

But so far it just won't seem to work.

(ps, sorry for the long post)

@The_Little_GuyAug 13.2006 — #This will allow you to add HTML to your mail

[code=php]
  $headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "rn";
 $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "rn";
 $headers .= "From: WHO ITS FROM rn" . "X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion(); 
 [/code]

@wietsedauthorAug 14.2006 — #Thank you very much!

That dioes the trick.

But why do I need to put an e-mail adress in the "From:" field, and not just a plain name?

It only works with:

"From: $email" and not with "From: $name"

any suggestions? I can't seem to figure out why

@FireCracker37Aug 14.2006 — #do it like this: 'From: $name <$email>" and it should show up in your inbox with the person's name, and if you click reply it will go to their e-mail addy.

Also when I got started in PHP I used awardspace.com as my testing server (along with my PC), but it helped to have someplace viewable online so that if I needed help with something, I could link to the page in a forum.

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