Strange problem i can't quite understand the cause of. I have a back end page on my site which is used for adding products to the online store, its has always worked just fine but since yesterday upon submitting the form i get;



It makes no difference if the form is submitted empty or full. The script which processes the form is on the same page, so the form submits to the same page therefore this error makes no sense because it clearly exists since i just filled out the form..

I had a quick check around and the action of the form hasn't changed, all other scripts seems to work fine from the same directory apart from the most important one which is this.

Any ideas what i may have missed?

Thanks guys.

Being PHP based, there are quite a few possible answers.

If the page "cannot be found", then you must check:
- is htaccess doing a mod-rewrite and redirecting the page?
- is there a syntax error causing the page to load a different script other then the one you expect?
- is there a php url directive that causes a different file to load as a result of switch cases or if statements?

I think I need to see the code to get a better understanding of what might be the cause.

The only mod-rewrites i have is to hide the page file extensions (.php, .html etc..) and another to catch ErrorDocument's and direct the user to a more fancy landing page. I just tested by completely removing the htaccess, same problem.

The script hasn't been altered since its last working state so there shouldn't be any syntax errors, mysql database hasn't changed so all the inputs should be the same. Even when doing the initial check to make sure no field are empty, so before even getting to the database input stage i get directed to the 'not found' page

The only if statements i have are what you may expect, simply to validate the input field is correct, so an example of one would be

if( !empty($_POST['title']) ) { 
		if( strlen($_POST['title']) < 10 ) {
			$title_err = true;
			$errors['title'][] = 'Title must be 10 characters or more.'; 
		}
	} else {
		$title_err = true;
		$errors['title'][] = 'Title is a required field.'; 
	}

If $errors is empty, the form then gets processed and all information goes to the databases etc.. All queries have mysql_error reporting to which nothing reports a problem. This is just a simple INSERT into a database (well several) nothing fancy or any complicated calculations

It seems as soon as i hit the submit form button i get the error, its not even trying to process the information.

I'm not sure which part you may find useful but if you need to see any of the script i will post what you need.

Thanks foyleman, much appreciate your help as this one has me stumped.

removed original post just in case i left any security risk info in there

edited on Aug. 7, 2012 07:46 am by Mystic

It may be for what ever reason it didn't like me trying to write html to my database, no idea what changed but i removed some html breaks i added from a textarea and the script seems to be processing now.

Sorry to waste your time, hopefully that solves it but if not ill be back here soon :)

You have some heavy web restrictions on that server. I've not seen that error.
Glad you got a fix for now.