http_post_vars

[peterjaz]

i need to parse a bunch of form fields from an html page. can i simply read the http_post_vars array and get all my fields from there? i have the wrox book but it's very vague on this issue. could someone please post a little code snippet or direct me to a tutorial. i just want to print all the values from my fields. thanks.
peter

[badman]

hello peter,
there is no need to feel lost!

PHP is so intelligent that you just have to append a '$' sign in front of the html form elements' name to get their values in the page whish is set in action attribute of form.
example:
<form name=xyz action=file.php>
<input type=text name=mytext>
</form>

in file file.php
echo $mytext; // will echo the value entered in the text field

simple isn't it?
Cheers!

[Anon]

Or you could do this:

while (list ($key,$value) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS)){
echo "$key => $value<br>";
}

[peterjaz]

thank you. that's exactly what i was looking for. it's amazing that this is a very useful snippet, yet i couldn't figure out how to do it from any books or online docs. i used your code and it worked on the first try. many thanks.
p