this scrpit requires an action

[jon182]

ok. i'm scripting a page and have a few problems.

1. It says that the scrpit requires an action when it has the following action.

<form action='police_investigation.php?action=policeisub' method='post'>

and at the begining of the scrpit i have.

case 'policeisub': police_investigation_submit(); break;

 

2. Even though i have used the print code within a function none of the stuff i'm supposed to print shows up. why is this?

[DELETE ME NOW!]

Re: this scrpit requires an action

Ya here is an example...

 

switch($_GET['action'])
{
case "one" : blah_one(); break;
case "two" : blah_two(); break;
default : echo 'This script requires an action'; break;
}
function blah_one()
{
echo 'Blah one';
}
function blah_two()
{
echo 'Blah two';
}

Now to access it you would do.
[url="scriptname.php?action=one"]Action one[/url]

[url="scriptname.php?action=two"]Action two[/url]

 

See if you under stand that.

Where is the one, two coming from?

case "blah" :          blah_one(); break;
       ^ name here   ^ function name here

[jon182]

Re: this scrpit requires an action

thats exactly what i have except for instead of " i use ' and instead of "echo" i use "print" and instead of Action one

i use

<form action='filename.php?action=one' method='post'>

then i use a dropbox (which doesn't show up)

then i use

<input type='submit' value='button name' /></form>";

[Floydian]

Re: this scrpit requires an action

Just for shts and giggles, have you tried replacing

switch($_GET['action'])

with

switch($_REQUEST['action'])

?hope that helps...

[jon182]

Re: this scrpit requires an action

it didn't change anything

[Floydian]

Re: this scrpit requires an action

Try doing a

var_dump($_REQUEST['action'];

and see what that outputs.

[AlabamaHit]

Re: this scrpit requires an action

Your making it say that...with the Default switch sounds like you took it from a staff page cuase thats what they do if you go straight to the page it says that. You need to set a default for the apge.

[jon182]

Re: this scrpit requires an action

i set that but if i don't set that defualt then the page would be blank.

[jon182]

Re: this scrpit requires an action

thanks alabama i solved it.