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hadi_php
30 Aug, 2008 - 10:43 PM
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<html>
<body>

<form action = "t2.php" method = "post">

Name : <Input type = "text" name = "first_name" />

<input type = "submit" value = "submit">

</form>
</body>
</html>


And in t2.php

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<html>
<body>
<?php
echo "Your Name is $first_name";
?>
</body>
</html>


Output will be what i worte is 1st form text box.

It runs on PHPtried And it outputs what i type in text box.........

But it is not running in XAMPP1.6.7! . Any 1 Plz help me..........(if u donnt understand then reply here......i will describe...)

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30 Aug, 2008 - 11:04 PM
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OK...I FOUND MY SOLUTION ..........
IN T2.PHP CODE WILL BE

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<html>
<body>
<?php
$first_name = $_POST['first_name'];
echo "Your Name is $first_name";
?>
</body>
</html>
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RE: Form Action Problem
30 Aug, 2008 - 11:14 PM
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You can also do some error checking :

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<html>
<body>
<?php
  if(isset($_POST['first_name'])) echo "Your Name is $first_name";
  else echo "You need to enter your first name";
?>
</body>
</html>
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31 Aug, 2008 - 12:03 AM
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QUOTE(hadi_php @ 30 Aug, 2008 - 11:43 PM) *

CODE
<html>
<body>

<form action = "t2.php" method = "post">

Name : <Input type = "text" name = "first_name" />

<input type = "submit" value = "submit">

</form>
</body>
</html>


And in t2.php

CODE
<html>
<body>
<?php
echo "Your Name is $first_name";
?>
</body>
</html>


Output will be what i worte is 1st form text box.

It runs on PHPtried And it outputs what i type in text box.........

But it is not running in XAMPP1.6.7! . Any 1 Plz help me..........(if u donnt understand then reply here......i will describe...)


Ok I use xampp and I would suggest you use the following code in t2.php:

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<html>
<body>
<?php
echo "Your Name is ".$_POST["first_name"];
?>
</body>
</html>
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RE: Form Action Problem
31 Aug, 2008 - 06:03 AM
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Why would you use:

php

<?php
echo "Your Name is ".$_POST["first_name"];
?>


? That just looks really messy. Not very secure either.

It looks a lot neater to write it as:

php

<?php
$first_name = $_POST['first_name'];
echo "Your name is $first_name";
?>


It's quite a bit neater this way, and you can add some functions to provide some security, without a messy echo statement mixed with different functions and the concatenation operator.
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31 Aug, 2008 - 06:33 AM
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thanks all for ur opinion...............thanks a lot.
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31 Aug, 2008 - 07:19 AM
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QUOTE(chili5 @ 31 Aug, 2008 - 07:03 AM) *

Why would you use:

php

<?php
echo "Your Name is ".$_POST["first_name"];
?>


? That just looks really messy. Not very secure either.

It looks a lot neater to write it as:

php

<?php
$first_name = $_POST['first_name'];
echo "Your name is $first_name";
?>


It's quite a bit neater this way, and you can add some functions to provide some security, without a messy echo statement mixed with different functions and the concatenation operator.


In some servers it doesn't work if you include it in the "", doesn't work on my version of xampp
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31 Aug, 2008 - 07:21 AM
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That works on my version of XAMPP. Then you probably have a setting wrong or something. It should work like that. smile.gif
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