php and forms

**thebluedragon** · 11-12-2003, 11:15 AM

hi there, i have a simple for with a name, last name and email text fields. and what im trying to do is write a php program which will just send me the details back.

so for eg. i have a form and i type in my details. then the php will creata a page which wills ay, is the follwoing info coprrect, and it will display on the screen the information i entered in my form, here is my code.

i just cant get ti to show my values!

---------html code------------

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>

</head>

<body >

<form method="post" action="http://localhost/HCI/tickets2.php">
<p>Name:
<input name="fname" type="text">
</p>
<p>
Surname:
<input name="lname" type="text">
</p>

<p>Email:
<input name="email" type="text">
</p>
<p>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Buy Tickets">
<input name="reset" type="reset" id="reset" value="Reset this form">
</p>
<p> </p>
</form>

</body>
</html>

-------------------------------------------------------------

this is my php code.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> New Document </TITLE>

</HEAD>

<BODY>
<H1>Is this information all correct before your complete your order?</H1>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Your Name</th>
<td><?php echo $fname; ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Your Last Name</th>
<td><?php echo $lname; ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Your Email</th>
<td><?php echo $email; ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>The Film You brought ticket for is:</th>
<td><?php echo $film; ?></td>
</tr>
<table>
</BODY>
</HTML>
--------------------------------------------------------------

what am i doing wrong? it just displays my headrers but not the actual data i want from my form!

Please help me

**nunomira** · 11-12-2003, 02:56 PM

hi,

You enter the variables in the form, and they are sent to the second page via post.

It hasn't always been like this, I think, but for security reasons you have to call the variables that are in the $_POST array:

PHP Code:


<?php echo $_POST['fname']; ?>

//

<?php echo $_POST['lname']; ?>

// and so on

simlilarly, you'd use $_GET if you had used get, or manually appended variables (query string) to the url.

read $_POST.
other predefined variables.

**shafak cangil** · 04-17-2004, 07:06 AM

hello
shouldn't that echo thing work with sending flash variables to php?
I mean if I used:
loadVariablesNum ("test.php", "0", "Post");
in the flash to send all variables (I have only one at the mo called 'namein')
and then i used this in the php file:
$temp = echo $_POST['namein'];
...
$query = "INSERT INTO $table (id, password, name, email, date) VALUES ('', 'sfgfg','$temp', '', '')";
..
shouldnt it work?
its not.....

Shaf

**nunomira** · 04-19-2004, 05:16 AM

hi,

It should be:

PHP Code:


$temp = $_POST['namein'];



$query = "INSERT INTO $table (id, password, name, email, date) VALUES ('', 'sfgfg','$temp', '', '')";

**shafak cangil** · 04-19-2004, 01:03 PM

THANK YOU!
SHAF

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