Retrieving Form elements

Anon

Hello... I am new to PHP and any help is appreciated. I am trying to retrieve the form fields (multiple checkboxes) from the "submitted" form into my shopping cart.

I tried to the $HTTP_POST... and $HTTP_GET... in teh shopping cart page but no use...
can some one guide me in te right direction

thanks again
--quan

Anon

post the form code and the php code on so we can see.

Anon

Use $POST and $GET if you version of php >= 4.1.0

Anon

Bear in my that only checked checkboxes will be submitted. If you are using PHP 4.1.0 or higher you can use $POST and $GET to access form variables.

Anon

i went throught the code again and i made sure that i $GET instead of $HTTP....

<p>

I am still not getting the prog. to print the content of the form that was submitted...
It contains 2 checkboxes and 1 input field.
thanks again

the code is as follows:

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<?php

function DisplayGetVars()
{
global $GET;
echo"in DisplayGetVars--------------";
print ("=============printing=== " . $GET['company']);
DisplayArray ($_GET);
echo"in DisplayGetVars---------at end-----";

}

function DisplayPostVars()
{
global $POST;
DisplayArray ($POST);
}

function DisplayArray($aArray)
{
echo"in DisplayArray -------------";

if (is_array ($aArray) && (count ($aArray) > 0 ) )
{
    print ("<b>key  ------------ value</b>");
    foreach ($aArray as $aKey => $aValue){
        if (!is_array ($aValue))
        {
            if (empty ($aValue))
            {
                print("this one is empty dude ----$aAkey");
            }
            else
            {
                print ("key=$aKey --- value = $aValue");
            }
        }
        else
            {
                print ("aKey is an array --- $aKey(array)");
                DisplayArray($aValue);
            }
    }//FOREACH
}
else
{
    print ("EMPTY OR INVALID " . count ($aArray) . "--" . is_array ($aArray));
}

echo"in DisplayArray----------at end----";

}

?>

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The above functions are called as follows from a different file :
<?php
error_reporting(255);
include ("DisplayVars_Get_Post_Cookie.PHP");
DisplayGetVars();
echo "all is well went through ok";

==============================<p>
the output is as follows:
<p>
<p>
-----------output start here ----------<p>
ppppppppppppp222222222222222 pppppppppppppppppp333333333333333333 in DisplayGetVars--------------=============printing=== in DisplayArray -------------EMPTY OR INVALID 0--in DisplayArray----------at end----in DisplayGetVars---------at end-----all is well went through ok

-------------------------output ends here ------------------<p>

yurko

Look, I will give you here simple, working example about using checkbox, radio and text box.

You can see it working here:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/horobey/testlab/formtest.html

So first file formtest.html:

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<form name="form1" method="post" action="show.php">
<p>Some text:
<input type="text" name="thetext">
<br>
<input type="checkbox" name="option1" value="YES">
Some option 1<br>
<input type="checkbox" name="options2" value="YES">
Some option 2 <br>
<input type="radio" name="radiooption" value="Checked 1">
Radiooption 1<br>
<input type="radio" name="radiooption" value="Checked 2">
Radiooption 2<br>
<br>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</p>
</form>
</body>

And the second is show.php:

<body>
Hi we get these vars from form:<br>
<?PHP
$txt = $POST["thetext"]; // <input type="text" name="thetext">
$opt1 = $POST["option1"]; // <input type="checkbox" name="option1" value="YES">
$opt2 = $POST["option2"]; // <input type="checkbox" name="option2" value="YES">
$radio = $POST["radiooption"];//<input type="radio" name="radiooption" value="Checked 1">
echo("The textbox is>$txt< <br>");
echo("The option 1 is>$opt1< <br>");
echo("The option 2 is>$opt2< <br>");
echo("The radio is>$radio< <br>");

?>

Good luck!