On Friday 04 April 2003 08:54 am, Eugene Mah wrote: > At 08:24 04-04-03 -0500, you wrote: > >On Friday 04 April 2003 07:43 am, Petre Agenbag wrote: > > > Your problem is not with PHP but with basic HTML. > > > Your <FORM> tag needs an action="www.somepage.com" in order to "do" > > > something. With PHP, you can call the same page back onto itself. > > > >Hi Petre, Thanks for the reply, I have actually tried this too and all the > >output I get is "Welcome !" but the username that was entered into the > > form box should appear between the Welcome and !, Please take a look at > > the code > > > >below: > > >>First page named: jobapp.html > > > >-<HTML> > ><!-- Jobapp.html--> > ><BODY> > ><H1>Practice app</H1> > ><p>Fill in the name and echo it back to the user.</p> > ><FORM NAME='frmJobApp' METHOD=post action="jobapp_action.php"> > >Please enter your name: > ><INPUT NAME="applicant" TYPE="text"><br> > ><INPUT NAME="enter" TYPE="submit" VALUE="Enter"> > ></FORM> > ></BODY> > ></HTML> > >--------------------------------------- > > > > >>Second page: named jobapp_action.php > > > >Welcome <?php echo $applicant; ?>! > > Unless your register_globals is set to on, > you should be using > > <?PHP echo $_POST['applicant']; ?>
This isn't working either : - ( What in the world could be wrong? -- David M. Edification Web Solutions http://www.edificationweb.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
