PHP and HTML forms

[miss_v]

I am new to PHP. Does anybody know if it is possible to access an HTML form element value from PHP?

say I have a textbox and I want to be able to access whatever text the user types in it.

Thank you.

[Anon]

if register_globals is ON you can just access it directly by name:

<input type="text" name="first_name">

on the form proccessing page you can simply type:

echo $first_name;

if register_globals is OFF you must do:

echo $POST['first_name'];
or
echo $GET['first_name'];

depending on which form method you used.

[Anon]

thanks, this is working ...

[Anon]

yeah, it is recommended to always write your script for register_globals = OFF as there are security issues with register_globals = ON

so use the $POST['name'] and $GET['name']