Newbie ?: Form variables aren't passing?

nowandever29 · Apr 27, 2004

Duhhhhhh...can you help someone trying to learn PHP?

I've got an HTML page:

<html>
<head>
<title>Test Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<form method="get" action="formresult.php">
Enter the stuff:
<input name="mytext1" type="text">
<input type="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>

Feeding a php page:
<html>
<head>
<title>Form Result</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
echo $mytext1;
?>
</body>
</html>

When I run it, I get:
Notice: Undefined variable: mytext1 in c:\inetpub\

http://wwwroot\formresult.php

on line 7

PHP is running, but for some reason the php page is not taking in the form variable??? GET and POST get the same results.

Thanks!
- Nowandever29

parthshukla · Apr 27, 2004

hi,

try replacing $mytext1 with $HTTP_GET_VARS['mytext1'] or $_GET['mytext1']

and see what happens

Parth

ingresman · Apr 28, 2004

The way you did it origianlly used to be the way it was done, in fact it was a selling point for PHP, all variables were always available.
The problem is you don't really know what your script is recieving e.g. I could send a url

http://www.fred.com?badman="123"

which would create a varialbe $badman which I know nothign about, even worse if you had a varialbe in your scriot called $badman I've just trampled on it (probabbly !)

KarveR · Apr 28, 2004

also when you echo $_GET['mytext1']; add quotes or strange thngs will happen if theres spaces in the text you entered .

e.g.

echo "$_GET['mytext1']";

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Newbie ?: Form variables aren't passing?

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