HTML form to SQL via PHP - HELP!!!

jessa_lee

I'm SO frustrated. I'm trying to make a simple form for my client to input his health articles, submit them to a database, and make them viewable via his website & sendable via HTML email. I can't even get the stuff to load into the table, let alone view it or send it. I just feel totally lost. Can anyone help?

Pig

That's pretty vague. If you know the specific problem, please post it. Otherwise, you should check out some of the tutorials on webmonkey and sitepoint to help you get started.

leatherback

Hi,

"I can't even get the stuff to load into the table"

Do you get the variables passed to the second page?

You could test this:

If you have in your page1.php the definition of your form, with a input type=text name=testvar

then in the page you have submitted to, you place a line;

echo "If globals are on I see my var here:";
echo $testvar;
echo "If globals are off I see my var here:";
echo $_POST['testvar'];

I am ussuming you notice straight away what I think your problem is.. You most likely have a newer version of PHP on your system And since you are just getting started, you probably have not changed your configuration settings of PhP. Therefor a thing ccalled "register_globals" is set to OFF. This is a security setting. Leave it this way.

You can either get each variable:
$var = $_POST['var'];

Or all at once:
extract($_POST);

Hope this helps.