simple formm & $_POST

[vinnie]

I have this form:

<form action="http://www.XXXXXXX.com/form.php" method="post"
name="form1" target="_blank" id="form1">
<label>Nome &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<input name="<b>name</b>" type="text" maxlength="45" />
</label>
<p>
<label>Last
<input name="last name" type="text" dir="ltr" maxlength="45" />
</label>
</p>

now, i have made this php script just to echo the value in "name" and
"last" but it doesn't work:

<?php
print("$_POST['name']");
print("thanks, see you soon");
?>

what's the error?

[Rami Elomaa]

vinnie kirjoitti:

I have this form:

<form action="http://www.XXXXXXX.com/form.php" method="post"
name="form1" target="_blank" id="form1">
<label>Nome &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<input name="<b>name</b>" type="text" maxlength="45" />

Remove the <b></bfrom input name.

</label>
<p>
<label>Last
<input name="last name" type="text" dir="ltr" maxlength="45" />
</label>
</p>

now, i have made this php script just to echo the value in "name" and
"last" but it doesn't work:

<?php
print("$_POST['name']");
print("thanks, see you soon");
?>

what's the error?

You can test what was posted with
print_r($_POST);

It's often very helpful in debugging the input data.

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[countach]

En las nuevas, el vinnie escribió:

I have this form:

<form action="http://www.XXXXXXX.com/form.php" method="post"
name="form1" target="_blank" id="form1">
<label>Nome &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<input name="<b>name</b>" type="text" maxlength="45" />
</label>
<p>
<label>Last
<input name="last name" type="text" dir="ltr" maxlength="45" />
</label>
</p>

now, i have made this php script just to echo the value in "name" and
"last" but it doesn't work:

<?php
print("$_POST['name']");
print("thanks, see you soon");

>>

what's the error?

<input name="<b>name</b>"

should be

<input name="name"

[vinnie]

>

You can test what was posted with
print_r($_POST);

It's often very helpful in debugging the input data.

--
[e-mail]

i did, but this is what i get:
<<
Array(form1(name))
thanks, see you soon

>>

While i was expecting the name that the user has typed in. Is there
anything missing?

[Erwin Moller]

vinnie wrote:

>>
You can test what was posted with
print_r($_POST);

It's often very helpful in debugging the input data.

--
[e-mail]

i did, but this is what i get:
<<
Array(form1(name))
thanks, see you soon

>>>

While i was expecting the name that the user has typed in. Is there
anything missing?

Hi Vinnie

print_r need <pretags, like this:

echo "<pre>";
print_r($_POST);
echo "</pre>";

for output that you can actually read being human. :)

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[Erwin Moller]

vinnie wrote:

I have this form:

<form action="http://www.XXXXXXX.com/form.php" method="post"
name="form1" target="_blank" id="form1">
<label>Nome &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<input name="<b>name</b>" type="text" maxlength="45" />
</label>
<p>
<label>Last
<input name="last name" type="text" dir="ltr" maxlength="45" />
</label>
</p>

now, i have made this php script just to echo the value in "name" and
"last" but it doesn't work:

<?php
print("$_POST['name']");

Besides the namingproblem (boldtags), another thing:
You use:
print("$_POST['name']");

Why do you use the "" around the $_POST["name"] ?
simply do:
echo $_POST['name'];

You said you are a novice. My advise would be NOT to use
variablesubstitution in strings untill you understand what is happening.

eg:
$name="vinnie";
echo "Your name is $name";

Works just fine, but it is excactly the same as:
echo "Your name is".$name;

The above example wasn't very tricky, but this one is worse:
$name[0]["firstname"] = "vinnie";
echo "Your name is $name[0]["firstname"]";

which will result in an error (because of the "" used as stringdelimmiter
and in the name-array.).

Easier is just to assemble your string using . as glue:
echo "Your name is ".$name[0]["firstname"];
Regards,
Erwin Moller

print("thanks, see you soon");
?>

what's the error?