Newbie Help Formatting Passed Text

mikehillside

Hello,

I'm passing multiple user names from a simple form and have them displayed on another html page. I am not writing them to a database. The problem lies in the 'other' html page. The result is the first and last name of both users displayed using a very small font, on the same line. (johnsmithalexjohnson). How do I format the passed names? I am looking for a format such as:

John Smith ___________________________ signature line

Alex Johnson ___________________________ signature line

Simple Form

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<FORM ACTION="Certificate.php" METHOD=POST>
First Name1: <INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="firstname1">
Last Name1:
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="lastname1">
<br>
First Name2:
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="firstname2">
Last Name2:
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="lastname2">
<br>
<INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE="GO">
</FORM>
</body>
</html>

Certificate.php

<?php
echo( "$firstname1 $lastname1
$firstname2 $lastname2");
?>

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank You.

kinadian

Just take your template form your POST and stick that into your code.

For example:

<?php
echo "$POST['firstname1'] $POST['lastname1'] ________________________ signature line<br>\n";

echo "$POST['firstname2'] $POST['lastname2'] ________________________ signature line<br>\n";
?>

--kinadian

stolzyboy

<?php
echo $firstname1 . " " . $lastname1 . " __________________<br>";
echo $firstname2 . " " . $lastname2 . " __________________";
?>

mikehillside

I must not get it?

I applied both suggestions and received the following error.

Parse error: parse error, expecting T_STRING' orT_VARIABLE' or `T_NUM_STRING' in /export/web21/gaome/teach006/www/Certificate.php on line 166

Any futher help is greatly appreciated.

stolzyboy

hmm....
not sure what the problem, this code works for me i have done it a thousand times, should be no parse errors, exactly what line does the parse error fall on, i know 166, but what line is that in my example anyway

mikehillside

I deleted the original php file, and created it again with your suggestions and it worked!

I probably messed something up the first time.

Thanks for all your help!!!

I'm wondering if the passed text can be formatted to reflect specific font and size?

Once again, thanks.

stolzyboy

<?php 
echo "<font size=3 color=blue>" . $firstname1 . " " . $lastname1 . " _____________________<br>"; 
echo $firstname2 . " " . $lastname2 . "</font> _____________________"; 
?>