From Textbox to PHP variable
Heya,
I am trying to figure out how to make a textbox send it's value (that has been entered by a user) to a PHP variable. Check the code below:
<? require_once('./global.php'); ?>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<form method="POST" action="link.php">
<input type="Text" id="$urlname" value=""/>
<input type="Text" id="$url" value=""/>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<?
$user=$bbuserinfo[userid];
mysql_query("INSERT INTO journal_links (url,postuserid,urlname) VALUES ('$url','$user','$urlname')")
?>How can I make it so "" sends it's entered value to $urlname, and that "" sends its value to $url.
Any help would be appreciated.
Greg K posted this at 16:01 — 6th June 2005.
He has: 2,145 posts
Joined: Nov 2003
Use the NAME tag which is required for this.
Then in PHP, you can access $_POST['urlname']
(older versions of PHP would let you just directly access $urlname but for security that efault configuration has been changed)
-Greg
CptAwesome posted this at 09:16 — 7th June 2005.
He has: 370 posts
Joined: Dec 2004
Another note, just so you don't scratch your head any more, in this chunk:
<form method="POST" action="link.php"><input type="Text" id="$urlname" value=""/>
<input type="Text" id="$url" value=""/>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
You have id="$url", and if you try to access this later in php (after it's name instead of id, because id doesn't work in inputs/form pieces), you'd try $_POST[$url] except that php would use the php variable of $url, and it would end up as $_POST[''] and you don't want that. If you did $_POST['$url'] that would work, since single quotes ignores variables, it's just really not something you want to get started as a habit.
//nmh posted this at 09:24 — 7th June 2005.
He has: 17 posts
Joined: May 2005
Thank guys,
It worked great.
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