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    copied!<p>I have a form on my PHP page which performs some ajax validation (that's working). Here's a snippet (the live form has more fields than this)</p> <pre><code> &lt;form name="form" onSubmit="return validate_form();" action="submitform.php" method="post"&gt; &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="5" bgcolor="#000000"&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td width="175"&gt; &lt;div align="right"&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Requested Vendor TAG:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="VendorTAG" onblur="checktag();" maxlength="8"&gt; &lt;div id="vendtag"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td width="175"&gt; &lt;div align="right"&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contact Name: &lt;/b&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="ContactName" maxlength="50"&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; </code></pre> <p> </p> <p>When I click the submit button, it loads this code:</p> <pre><code>&lt;php ? if(trim($VendorTAG) == '') { die('Vendor TAG cannot be blank'); } else if(trim($ContactName) == '') { die('Contact Name cannot be blank'); } ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>(again, there's more of the same, but this illustrates the point)</p> <p>This all worked perfectly well until the last update from my hoster sometime over christmas, when the form stopped working - but I'm having real difficulty in finding out why..</p> <p>The server is now running PHP 5.2.11 - am I doing something fundamentally wrong/stupid here?</p>
 

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