PHP &amp; HTML Forms

PHP & HTML Forms

reggy73

Hello,
am new to PHP and i need to know how i can use PHP to generate HTML code from a HTML Form

Thanx!

alfoxy

can you be a bit more specific ?

What HTML do you want to create, what does the form ask for ?

reggy73

The form displays a Title Box & Heading(H1) box with a SUMBIT button - When the submit button is clicked it generates HTML code with a PHP code in it. The PHP code reads a table and displays a HTML table of items when displayed in a browser

alfoxy

if this is your form

then on page2.php, the value entered into the text box will be available as $code. So

<? echo "You entered : ".$code."<br>"; ?>

will show you what you entered

To make a dynamic table

<table width="80%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td>Code</td>
<td>Value</td>
</tr>

<?
connect to the database

get what you want

for each field you find
{
?>
<tr>
<td><?=$code?></td>
<td><?=$value?></td>
</tr>
<?

}

?>
</table>

Hope that helps

reggy73

Thanx 4 ur response - lets say the form has two fields: 1)Page Title & Page Heading.
When a user enters details into these 2 fields such as Books in the page title field & Reggy's Books in the page heading field & clicks on the sumbit button, another page(.php) displays which shows something like:

<html>
<head>
<title>Books</title></head>
<body>
<H1>Reggy's Books</H1>
<?php

<?
</body></html>

How can i do this?

alfoxy

Ah I see ...

Save page1 as page1.php

<html>
<head>
<title>Enter your details page</title>
</head>

<body>

</form>
</body>
</html>

and save your page page2.php like

<html>
<head>
<title><?=title?></title></head>
<body>
<H1><?=header?></H1>
<?php

<?
</body></html>

this should work

reggy73

Thanx again for your response - should both php files be in the cgi-bin?

alfoxy

neither is necessary

reggy73

I cant get it 2 work its on this URL - http://www.graduate-interview-techniques.co.uk/page1.php

alfoxy

First change your button code to

then see what happens

reggy73

Its taking me to page2.php but its just displaying the text "header"

alfoxy

show me the code for page2.php

reggy73

reggy73

i just noticed that its working but inputting the details in the title & header . What i actually need it to do is display the actual HTML code on the page. An example of what am talking about can be found on this site http://www.ibdjohn.com/htmlgenerator/

when u input details in the title & heading fields, on the next page it displays the html code

alfoxy

Your prob is you forgot the $'s

ie <title><?=$title?></title>

Should work now

reggy73

Thanx again for ur responses-if u look at this URL http://www.ibdjohn.com/htmlgenerator/ and input details in just the title & heading fields, you will see that on the next page it displays the actual HTMl code(tags) on the page with whatever title u inputted inside the tags - this is what am trying to do

thanx

wilsonodk

page1.html

<form action="page2.php" method="post">
  <p>Title: <input name="title" type="text" /></p>
  <p>Heading: <input name="heading" type="text" /></p>
  <p><input name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit" /></p>
</form>

page2.php

<html>
<head>
<title><?php echo $_POST['title']; ?></title>
</head>
<body>
<h1><?php echo $_POST['heading']; ?></h1>
<hr />
<h2>Source Code</h2>
<p>&lt;html&gt;<br />
  &lt;head&gt;<br />
  &lt;title&gt;<?php echo $_POST['title']; ?>&lt;/title&gt;<br />
  &lt;/head&gt;<br />
  &lt;body&gt;<br />
  &lt;h1&gt;<?php echo $_POST['heading']; ?>&lt;/h1&gt;<br />
  &lt;/body&gt;<br />
  &lt;/html&gt;</p>
</body>
</html>

reggy73

Does page2.php go in the cgi-bin ???

laserlight

Generally the cgi-bin concept isnt used very much anymore (for PHP, especially) - the webserver would be configured to parse PHP in any file designated as containing PHP, within the web directory.

wilsonodk

That largely depends on how you have PHP set up on your system. I never use cgi-bins. So, in my case no. If you can't process php pages without using the cgi-bin, then the answer is yes, in which case you'll want to change the action attribute of the form tag on page1.html.

If you're using Apache, MS IIS, iPlanet or Netscape Web Server, then more than likely you don't need to put it in a cgi-bin.