Hey every, I'm new to the group and to PHP (3 days now) and I would like to
ask a question. I purchased a book on PHP a day or so ago and as I'm going
through the book it comes to a point where it talks about passing html form
values to PHP. So I type up the examples from the book, both the html file
and the PHP file and I run it and I don't get anything when the PHP file is
accessed. Hmmmm puzzling! I don't get any errors at all, but the values just
aren't coming across.
The book says that I should be able to take the "name=xyz" value from the
HTML form and just use it as a regular variable ($xyz) in the PHP file. But
this doesn't work.
After much digging on web pages and through email lists I found reference to
something called the $_POST variable. This seems to be the only way that I
can make the PHP file use the "name=xyz" values from the HTML file. So in
the PHP file I would have to use the variable "$_POST[xyz]" to get the form
value returned.
Anyone have any ideas as to what's up. I hope its just something silly that
I'm missing being a newby to PHP and all.
I will include small versions of the file here for reference:
HTML FILE
---------
<html><body>
<form action="x.php" method="post">
Please enter your name:
<input type="text" name="xyz">
<input type="submit" value="submit">
</form>
</body></html>
PHP FILE (Doesn't Work)
---------
<html><body>
<?php
echo("The value of name is $xyz");
?>
</body></html>
PHP FILE (Does Work)
---------
<html><body>
<?php
echo("The value of name is $_POST[xyz]");
?>
</body></html>
So I guess my question ultimately is, what are the different ways in which
form data can be passed to a PHP script?
Thanks you,
Jessica
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