PHP Form Handling

Introduction

We are describing Form handling in PHP. The HTML form attribute is aoutomatically available in your PHP script.

  • The Form action is specified in the PHP script and handles the form tag.

  • The method attribute data is specified in the form attribute data.

  • The posible method attribute values are $_POST, $_GET and $_REQUEST.

  • Forms are submited using the post method with all the data collected by the post method. $_POST[['name'], $_POST[['email'], $_POST[['description'], where name, email and description are the name of the input elements of the form used.

  • The Get method is like associative arrays collected by a URL. When a user submits a form with method="get", all the data s(he) entered are collected by $_GET in the form of $_GET[['name'], $_GET[['email'], $_GET[['description'], where name, email and description are the name of the input elements of the form used.

  • The Browser uses the get method and the get method passes the value is 200 characters. While Apache uses  8000 characters by default. If you are using the GET method then use urlencode() to hide the actual value or characters in the URL.

  • $_REQUEST is an associative array thet contains the data used by get, post and cookies by default.

  • By setting the value of the type attribute to submit, the form data is submitted.

Example


Create a file named "Form.tpl".
 

<html>

<head> 

<title>send mail in php</title> 

<style type="text/css"> 

li {list-style-type: none

font-size: 16pt

margin-bottom: 7px

}<br> 

.survey 

margin: auto

padding-top: 10px

padding-bottom: 10px

width: 400px

background : #D8F1F8

border: 1px soild silver

.survey h2  

margin-left: 38px

input 

font-size: 20pt

input:focus, textarea:focus 

background-color: lightyellow

input submit

font-size: 12pt

</style> 

</head> 

<body bgcolor="#FFFFCC"> 

<div class="survey"> 

<h2>Survey Form </h2> 

<ul> 

<form name="survey" action="action.php" method="POST" > 

<li>Name:</li><li><input type="text" name="name" /></li> 

<li>Date:</li><li><input type="text" name="date" /></li> 

<li>email:</li><li><input type="text" name="email" /></li> 

<li><input type="submit" /></li> 

</form> 

</ul> 

</div> 

</body> 

</html>

Next, the PHP script to save (action.php) handles the form data using $_POST.

 

<html>

<h1>view plainprint?</h1>

<?php 

$name = $_POST['name'] ; 

$date = $_POST['date'] ; 

$email = $_POST['email']; 

echo "<ul><li>".$name."</li><li>".$date."</li><li>".$email."</li></ul>"; 

?>

<html>

Output

Form-Handling-in-PHP21.jpg

Form-Handling-in-PHP2.jpg

Form-Handling-in-PHP3.jpg

 

 

 

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