PHP- Creating a "success" message for a form

[Bloke]

I am working on a simple form to use as a guesbook. When the user enters thier
name, subject and commnents the meesage should read 'Your message was
submitted' ect. But when the page loads it already gives the success message
before you submit the form. What am I doing wrong? code:<?php
require_once['Connections/guestbkConn.php'); ?> <?php ini_set ('display_errors'
, 1); error_reporting (E_ALL &amp; ~E_NOTICE); if ($dbc = @mysql_connect
(password here)) { if (!@mysql_select_db (database here)) { die (' Could not
select data base because: ' . mysql_error() . '</p>'); } } else { die ('
Could not connect to MySQL because : ' . mysql_error() . '</p>'); } $query =
'INSERT INTO blog (author, subject, comments, date) VALUES
('{$_POST['author']}','{$_POST['subject']}','{$_POST['comments']}', NOW())';
if (@mysql_query ($query)) { print ' Your message has been submitted</p>'; }
else { print ' Could not submite becuase' . mysql_error() . '. The query was
$query. </p>'; mysql_close(); } ?> Thank you for visiting my guestbook.
Please enter your comments below:<br /> <form name='form' method='post'
action='guestbk.php'> <table width='60%' border='0' cellspacing='0'
cellpadding='0'> <tr> <td>Name</td> <td><input name='author' type='text'
id='author' /></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Subject</td> <td><input name='subject'
type='text' id='subject' /></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Comments</td> <td><textarea
name='comments' id='comments'></textarea></td> </tr> <tr> <td>&amp;nbsp;</td>
<td>&amp;nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td>&amp;nbsp;</td> <td><input type='submit'
name='Submit' value='Submit' /> <input type='reset' name='Submit2'
value='Reset' /></td> </tr> </table> </form>

[-Rb]

"Bloke" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I am working on a simple form to use as a guesbook. When the user enters
>thier
> name, subject and commnents the meesage should read 'Your message was
> submitted' ect. But when the page loads it already gives the success message
> before you submit the form. What am I doing wrong?

<snip>

Wrap the php code in an if statement, check for the form being submitted.

if(isset($_POST['Submit']))
{//process your form
}else {
// display the form
}

You should include some form validation for security.

HTH

-Rb