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[Neo770] · March 5th, 2004, 01:48 AM

Hello all,

I have started following this PHP tutorial at
Webmonkey

I have copied the code on that page exactly, and well it dosent work.

The form data that i type in will not show up on the next page.

I am useing apache 2.0.48 with PHP 4.3.4. if it matters at all.

[Neo770] · March 7th, 2004, 07:37 PM

Bump, I still have know idea.

krohnjw · March 7th, 2004, 08:02 PM

Does anything show?
Post your actual code.

[Neo770] · March 7th, 2004, 08:10 PM

Ok here is the HTML page which collects the data

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>My form</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="bad_words.php" method="get">
My name is:
<br> <input type="text" name="yname">
<p>
My favorite dirty word is:
<br> <input type="text" name="fword">
</p>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Enter my data!">
</form>
</body>
</html>

And here is the code of the page it goes to

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>Perv!</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<p>
Hi <?php print $YourName; ?>
<p>
You like the word <b> <?php print $FavoriteWord; ?> !?! </b>
<p>You oughta be ashamed of yourself!
</body>
</html>

This is all the php page spits out:

Hi

You like the word !?!

You oughta be ashamed of yourself!

krohnjw · March 7th, 2004, 08:27 PM

Just a few thoughts...
1.) Why are you using get as a form method?
2.) You have not defined those variables so they are printing what they hold, nothing.

Depending on how you have your webserver configured you may be able to access variables directly defined as so, but using consistent names.....

Code:

<input type="text" name="yname">

Code:

<?php print $YourName; ?>

See how those 2 dont coincide?

You may need to use $_POST[varname] and $_GET[varname] depending on your configuration.

You really would be better off just writing this from the start and learning a quick bit about using POST, GET, and forms in PHP. It is all fairly simple.

<form action=page.php method='POST'>
<input type=bleh name=newname>
</form>

on submit....

print "This is my variable --> $_POST[newname]\n";

This will post the form data in newname and (depending on your configuration) allow you to print/store/manipulate that data.

[Neo770] · March 7th, 2004, 08:45 PM

ok thanks, your little code bit works fine. Is it possable that the webmonkey tutotial is out of date an wont work with the newest PHP?

Could you point me to a good place to learn php?

Thanks.

Edit: btw I pasted the wrong code into my post before, in the actual code I'm really testing with the variable names are the same on both pages.

krohnjw · March 7th, 2004, 08:52 PM

The code they have on webmokeys allows you direct interface to those variables, whereas i dont think that is the defaul setup, you must use $_POST[] and $_GET[].

As far as online places, nope

There are a few good books out there though, the quickstart visual guides for PHP and PHP and mysql.

[Neo770] · March 7th, 2004, 09:00 PM

OK thank you for all your help. Looks like il be of to find a book sometime then.

cracked · March 10th, 2004, 01:37 PM

well http://php.net has a good function database with details on how to use all of the functions. not really good as a tutorial but it helps.

[Neo770] · March 10th, 2004, 07:17 PM

Thanks, I know PHP.net has some information, but I need to start from the beggening so I know how to put it all together.