help for forms

zuhair69

dear friends
im new 2 php and need ur help
im passing variable through POST...but when i that in action file i get the output as valuekey=value
eg.
if i have $_POST['name']=zuhair
i get o/p as
zuhairname=zuhair

wilsonodk

Okay, so how are you passing the values with POST? Show us some code from page 1 and page 2. That'll help us help you.

Usually values are passed from page to page with forms. Either with GET method (which send them in the URL) or with the POST method (that sends them in the page headers).

zuhair69

the code for my two pages r given below...its simple code just to test if im getting right varaible from form....the variable being passed thru POST is "info"....which when acessed thru $_POST["info"]....gives
"zuhairinfo=zuhair".....when info=zuhair...im using httpd-2.0.40-21 and php-4.2.2-17

test.html:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>testing forms</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY LANG="en-US" DIR="LTR">
<H2><B>Enter username</B></H2>
<FORM ACTION="test.php" METHOD="POST">
<P><INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="info" SIZE=17></P>
<P><INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE="SUBMIT"></P>
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>

test.php

wilsonodk

Interesting. I tested your code, and it works fine for me...

[b]test.html[/b]
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
	<TITLE>testing forms</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY LANG="en-US" DIR="LTR">
<H2><B>Enter username</B></H2>
<FORM ACTION="test.php" METHOD="POST">
	<P><INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="info" SIZE=17></P>
	<P><INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE="SUBMIT"></P>
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>

[b]test.php[/b]
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>PHP Test</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
<?php
echo $_POST["info"];
?>
</BODY>
</HTML>

If I enter 'Wilsonodk' on test.html—'Wilsonodk' is displayed on test.php.

zuhair69

thanx 4 ur prompt reply..could u send me copies of ur httpd.conf and php.ini....i think theres some prob with my httpd...mucch obliged 4 ur help

wilsonodk

Try reinstalling Apache and PHP.