title: error while submitting form
body: <p>this form is not submitting. It shows error message.</p>
  
  <p>error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Unable to load the webpage because the server sent no data.
    Reload this webpage.
    Press the reload button to resubmit the data needed to load the page.
    Error code: ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Form code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;html&gt;
      &lt;head&gt;
      &lt;title&gt;Home&lt;/title&gt;
      &lt;link href="newcss.css" rel="stylesheet"&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
  &lt;?php if($_POST['submitForm'] == 'submit' ){
              echo "the Form has been submitted";
          } 
          ?&gt;
          &lt;form action="" method="post"&gt;
  
              &lt;table&gt;
                  &lt;tr&gt;
                      &lt;td&gt;First Name:&lt;/td&gt;
                      &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="text" name="firstName" maxlength="25" autofocus&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;/tr&gt;
                  &lt;tr&gt;
                      &lt;td&gt;Last Name:&lt;/td&gt;
                      &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="text" name="lastName" maxlength="25"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;/tr&gt;
                  &lt;tr&gt;
                      &lt;td&gt;Gender:&lt;/td&gt;
                      &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="radio" name="Gender" value="male"&gt;Male
                          &lt;input type="radio" name="Gender" value="female"&gt; Female
                      &lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;/tr&gt;
                  &lt;tr&gt;
                      &lt;td&gt;Email:&lt;/td&gt;
                      &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="email" name="Email" maxlength="35"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;/tr&gt;
                  &lt;tr&gt;
                      &lt;td&gt;Phone Number:&lt;/td&gt;
                      &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="tel" name="phoneNumber" maxlength="20"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;/tr&gt;
                  &lt;tr&gt;
                      &lt;td&gt;Ask question and provide background information&lt;/td&gt;
                      &lt;td&gt;&lt;textarea name="information" rows="5" cols="20" placeholder="put your question and background information here"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;/tr&gt;
                  &lt;tr&gt;
                      &lt;td colspan="2" align="center"&gt;&lt;input type="submit" name="submitForm" value="submit"&gt;&lt;input type="reset" value="reset"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;/tr&gt;
              &lt;/table&gt;
          &lt;/form&gt;
  
      &lt;/div&gt;   
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I just want to get data in the form submitted so that once I'm able to confirm that data is submitted, I can work further with the webpage.</p>
  
  <p>any suggestions?</p>