I'm trying to learn PHP forms, inputting data, outputting results on a basic html form page with a button. However, it doesn't send me to the right PHP link, and instead shows a broken 404 not found link, and it seems to be that I'm having some weird encoding issues on apache.
I even uploaded this to my hosting, and I get further strange encoding for the link which is simply supposed to be named handle_calc.php
The requested URL /“handle_calc.php†was not found on this server.
Any tips on, what needs to be changed? I'm amazed that both environments won't show a basic form php correctly by default.
html
<!doctype html>
<html lang=“en”>
<head>
<meta charset=“utf-8”>
<title>Product Cost Calculator</title>
</head>
<body>
<div><p>Fill out this form to calculate the total cost:</p>
<form action=“handle_calc.php” method=“post”>
<p>Price: <input type=“text” name=“price” size=“5”></p>
<p>Quantity: <input type="number" name=“quantity” size=“5” min=“1”
value=“1”></p>
<p>Discount: <input type=“text” name=“discount” size=“5”></p>
<p>Tax: <input type=“text” name=“tax” size=“5”> (%)</p>
<p>Shipping method: <select name=“shipping”>
<option value=“5.00”>Slow and steady</option>
<option value=“8.95”>Put a move on it.</option>
<option value=“19.36”>I need it yesterday!</option>
</select></p>
<p>Number of payments to make: <input type="number" name="payments" size=“5”
min=“1” value=“1”></p>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Calculate!">
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>
php:
<!doctype html>
<html lang=“en”>
<head>
<meta charset=“utf-8”>
<title>Product Cost Calculator</title>
<style type=“text/css”>
.number { font-weight: bold; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<?php
//get the values from the $_POST array
$price = $_POST[‘price’];
$quantity = $_POST[‘quantity’];
$discount = $_POST[‘discount’];
$tax = $_POST[‘tax’];
$shipping = $_POST[‘shipping’];
$payments = $_POST[‘payments’];
//calculate the total:
$total = $price * $quantity;
$total = $total + $shipping;
$total = $total - $discount;
//determine tax rate
$taxrate = $tax / 100;
$taxrate = $taxrate + 1;
//factor in the tax rate:
$total = $total * $taxrate;
//calculate the monthly payments
$monthly = $total / $payments
//print out results
print “<p>You have selected to purchase:<br>
<span class=\”number\”>$quantity</span> widget(s) at <br>
$<span class=\”number\”>$price</span>price each plus a <br>
$<span class=\”number\”>$shipping</span>shipping cost and a <br>
<span class=\”number\”>$tax</span>percent tax rate.<br>
After your $<span class=\”number\”>$discount</span>discount, the total cost
is $<span class=\”number\”>$total</span>.<br>
Divided over <span class=\”number\”>$payments</span>monthly payments, that
would be $<span class=\”number\”>$monthly</span> each.</p>”;
?>
</body>
</html>
Your form action attribute is using special characters rather than standard double quotes. You appear to be using special characters throughout. Replace all occurrences of those special chars with regular double / single quotes.