Hey man, your post is very helpful ...
But actually, I just found out the solution on the web...
You know what, most web sites are just telling you what does it do (submit
to the server, header...$#&Q*^$@#) , but doesn't give u an example...
Until I just found an example on the web, make my mind much clearer...
And your example is exactly what I need before...
Thanks anyway..
"B.A.T. Svensson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Well lest go trough the basic steps then (but I still recomend you to
visist the www.w3.org
> and realy spend some time trying to understand the specifications - it
will save you lots
> of headache in the future...):
>
> First you start with the FORM tag:
>
> <form method=POST action=start.asp>
>
> Here we see two attributes METHOD and ACTION.
>
> METHOD should be POST in our case, and the ACTION is a pointer to a page
that should
> be handling the FORM request. In this case that page is called START.ASP,
in your
> case it should probably be with the file extension .PHP.
>
>
> What we then need is some interactive input fields:
>
> <select name=Tissue>
> <option value=0>Unspecified</option>
> <option value=1>Brain</option>
> <option value=2>Eye</option>
> <option value=3>Liver</option>
> <option value=4>Heart</option>
> <option value=5>Muscel</option>
> <option value=5>Splein</option>
> </select>
>
> We choice to display a drop down menu with some various items found
> in the OPTION-tag. The SELECT as to be refereed with a NAME so we can
> refer to it once the START.ASP page is loaded. The name of the variable
> that START.ASP will be able to figure out which option we select will
> hence be "Tissue".
>
> Finally we need a button to be able to submit the selected data:
>
> <input type=submit value='Go now' name=Submit>
>
> And then we ends the form:
>
> </FORM>
>
> Once we press the "Go Now" button, the form data will be posted to the
> webserver, but the handlig page (START.ASP) need a script to extract
> the data. This is done like this is VBScript:
>
> Tissue = Request.Form("Tissue")
>
>
> In PHP I think a reference to a posted variable is done something like
this:
>
> $HTTP_POST_VARS['Tissue'];
>
> Knowing this it should be a quite simple to continue with whatever you
need to do.
>
> Check this link for more details about POSTing:
>
>
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php#language.variab
les.external.form
>
> If you want to uplaod a file instead, you might want to check this out:
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php
>
>
> Cheers,
> Anders
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Samura1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 5:01 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] PHP & "POST"
> >
> >
> > First, I don't know how to use POST, is it just changing the value GET
in
> > the form to POST?
> > Secondly, because I don't know where does it send to, I don't know where
to
> > get it, and I don't know how to get it even I know... so.......
> > Anyone can show me an example coding for POST and how to get the data
from
> > POST pls....
> >
> > "B.A.T. Svensson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > ???????:000001c24381$9ebbb8a0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Have you tried this URL yet:
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#edef-FORM
> > > (www.w3.org might want to be your first choice when your are looking
for
> > specifications
> > > details about HTML and HTTP transfers.)
> > >
> > > Also remember that GET is restricted to ASCII transfers, and if you
> > happens
> > > to have binary data you should uses POST.
> > >
> > > But more precisly what are your problems:
> > >
> > > 1) can't post the data
> > > 2) can't get the values from posted data
> > > 3) something else
> > >
> > > ??
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Anders
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Samura1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 12:32 PM
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: [PHP-WIN] PHP & "POST"
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hey guys,
> > > > I want to know how to retrieve data from POST (form) ...
> > > >
> > > > What I want to do is...
> > > >
> > > > I've got a textarea for ppl to enter large amount of text (essay),
and I
> > let
> > > > ppl submit it (using POST), then insert these data into mySQL.
> > > >
> > > > I get it working if I use GET (I only know how to use GET, dunno
about
> > POST)
> > > > with small amount of words (say 1600 characters), but when there are
> > more
> > > > than 2000 characters, the submit button doesn't work. And I found
that
> > it is
> > > > becoz GET does not allow too large amount of text appear in the
URL...
> > > >
> > > > So anyone can teach me how to get data from POST? I read some web
sites
> > but
> > > > still have no idea how to do it ... I think I need an example...
> > > >
> > > > Please help
> > > >
> >
> >
> >
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