php download when submit clicked

[KBL]

Hey I want when i click the submit button it runs a php script that then loads it to a local database where I can then use the entered data as a way for someone to login into the site but everytime i click the submit, it downloads the whole php file. The form is in html and in the same folder as the php file. my html code is:
<form action="register.php" method="post">
<table border="0" width="225" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td width="219" bgcolor="#999999">
            <p align="center"><font color="white"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Registration</b></span></font></p>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="219">
            <table border="0" width="282" align="center">
                    <tr>
                        <td width="116"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Name:</span></td>
                        <td width="156"><input name="name" type="text" id="name" maxlength="100"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td width="116"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Email:</span></td>
                        <td width="156"><input name="email" type="text" id="email" maxlength="100"></td>
                    </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td width="116"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Username:</span></td>
                    <td width="156"><input name="username" type="text" id="username"></td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td width="116"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Password:</span></td>
                    <td width="156"><input name="password" type="password" id="password"></td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td width="116">&nbsp;</td>
                        <td width="156">
                            <p align="right"><input name="Submit" type="submit" onclick="MM_validateForm('name','','R','email','','RisEmail','username','','R','password','','R');return document.MM_returnValue" value="Send"></p>
                        </td>
                </tr>
            </table>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="219" bgcolor="#999999">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
</table>
</form>

[deleted1234]

Maybe because you don't need to include onclick="MM_validateForm(...)" on your Submit button anymore.

Since you used POST as your form method, on your register.php script you can get all the values of your form by doing:

$name = $_POST;
$email = $_POST;
$username = $_POST;
$password = $_POST;

[KBL]

Thats only there so that it wouldn't allow either a blank field or a bad email address to be entered, even before I place that there it was doing the same thing

[diafol]

Something tells me you haven't got a localhost server set up. Have you got apache (or IIS) and php installed and fired up?

If so, try the following. OK, stripped to bare bones:

<form action="register.php" method="post">
 Name: <input name="name" type="text" id="name" maxlength="100" />
 Email: <input name="email" type="text" id="email" maxlength="100" />
 Username: <input name="username" type="text" id="username" />
 Password: <input name="password" type="password" id="password" />
 <input name="Submit" type="submit" value="Send" />
</form>

Does this work?

[KBL]

Its the same thing sadly, and yes its up and running. I know its up because when I used only php to input static data (insert into table etc etc), it was added to the table wit no problem

[diafol]

Ok, shouldn't make a difference, but change the form page to php extension.

[KBL]

Thats what I did, I took everything out of the registration html, and copied it over into a php file so now it writes to the database perfectly, but now I have to create a login screen that fetches that data in the database, and I also have to enable only a few functions to people whom visit, any online tutorial would be great, I already see that I may have to convert all of my html my files to php.

[diafol]

Ok, my oversight. Search Daniweb or any good php forum for login scripts. There are thousands. Go for one that uses sessions.