somthing simple

[Anon]

Hi, I'm just diving in to PHP today.. but I can't seem to find somthing simple. How do I get variables from a form in to PHP? Maybe I'm looking to hard or not hard anough.. but I can't seem to find a simple example of how to do this anywhere. Can some one point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

-Zeek

[cornelalexa]

The Php online manual (www.php.net) it's all you need.
Read carrefuly (from start) and you will find all you need.
I started from there too.
Good luck.

[Anon]

Well, I asked a friend. All I have to do is put a $ infront of the varable I want to grab. EASY!

thanks

-Zeek

P.S. I had been looking through the php manual franticaly to find this information and was having trouble finding it 🙂

[lucianoes]

Look for the chapter:
"Variables from outside PHP
HTML Forms (GET and POST)"

    Luciano ES
    Santos, SP - Brasil

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"All I have to do is put a $ infront of the varable I want to grab"

...and that will not always work because that is the wrong way to do it.

The correct way is by accessing the $HTTP_POST_VARS and $HTT_GET_VARS arrays (which will be called $POST and $GET in PHP 4.1.1+)