Form submission to populate a HTML/PHP page

[Mimic]

I want to have my form auto populate a HTML page upon submission, im doing this for a application that I want to be printed out once they fill out the info on the form. Is there a simple way to do this? Im guessing it can be done with PHP but I dont know where to start, thanks for any help

[seanmiller]

Sure, let's say that you set up a form with two fields, "input name" and "email_address", set up to use the POST method and to run a PHP script.

Within the PHP script you can output the entered values using the _POST array... like this...

<table>
  <tr>
    <td>Name:</td>
    <td><?php echo $_POST['input_name']; ?>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>E-mail:</td>
    <td><?php echo $_POST['email_address']; ?>
  </tr>
</table>

HTH

Sean

[Mimic]

Ok sounds simple enough, how should I setup the beginning of my form? Should it be something like this?

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

Or should it be something else? Anything else I should know? Thanks for the help

Have any working examples of this form population I can view?

[seanmiller]

Ok sounds simple enough, how should I setup the beginning of my form? Should it be something like this?

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

Yes, exactly. If you used the "get" method then your variables would be $_GET['fieldname'] in the php script, but I'd be inclined to use post if I were you...

Sean

[Mimic]

Thanks for the help, I got everything working perfectly now

[eKstreme]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make sure you check the data that's submitted. When a user submits data to your server, it's a security risk. Check everything that's submitted.

[Mimic]

Never mind I figured it out :devious: