Simple HTML form and PHP throwing error
Question
I am just calling a simple PHP script through a HTML form.
An error is thrown everytime : "The character encoding of the HTML document was not declared. The document will render with garbled text in some browser configurations if the document contains characters from outside the US-ASCII range. The character encoding of the page must to be declared in the document or in the transfer protocol"
I have defined the encoding both in PHP as well as HTML as UTF-8 (please refer to code below). I am unable to solve this problem despite searching all over the web.
HTML code :
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta content="UTF-8" http-equiv="encoding"/>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<div align="center">
<form action= "google1.php" method="get" accept-charset="UTF-8" >
Enter Your Name:
<INPUT TYPE = "text" NAME = "student"> <BR>
<!--input name="q" type="text"-->
<br/ >
<input name="btnG" type="submit" value ="test">
</form>
</div>
</body>
PHP Code
header("Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8");
print "<pre>";
print_r($_GET);
print "</pre>";
The result after submitting the button (along with the error) is :
"; print_r($_GET); print ""; ?>
I am using XAMPP. I tried to edit .htaccess (added : AddType 'text/html; charset=UTF-8' html) as suggested in some of the solutions over internet but that also did not help.
I found a site where there is a simple form which calls a PHP script again. http://www.tjhsst.edu/~dhyatt/superap/form1.html . When I try to submit value in the form, I get the same error.
So I thought, this could be a browser problem and I changed the default encoding of my browser to UTF-8. But this also did not help.
I am a novice in web programming and trying to learn. Appreciate if any one can help.
Thanks, Ashutosh
2 answers
solution1
3 ACCPTED 2012-12-25 13:05:40
It looks like you have some issue with opening/closing tags.
Ensure that you have php code wrapped with <?php and ?> in your process1.php3 (Some details: http://php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.phpmode.php ) Like here:
<?php
header("Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8");
print "<pre>";
print_r($_GET);
print "</pre>";
?>
UPD:
After a long session of question/answer finally appeared that OP were opening file with a form using file:// protocol. Like file:///C:/xampp/htdocs/example/form.html and form were submitted to file:///C:/xampp/htdocs/example/google1.php?... As apache works with HTTP protocol only, PHP were not executed actually.
solution2
0 2012-12-25 13:34:08
Your Code:
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
Correct code:
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />
You have forget to put slash at the end of meta-tag. You have not closed the meta tag.
Though, its not very crucial, as you have tried everything. Try this one too. It might work for you.
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