Form Element Names NOT being passed on!?

[Anon]

Here's my problem:

I can't get the form elements' names (single-line text boxes in this case) to get passed on to the PHP Script as variables

In the HTML Form Page...

(e.g....<input type="text" name="state">

In the script...

print ("I live in $state")

When the script tries to display this line it returns the following error to the browser:

Notice: Undefined variable: FavoriteWord in C:\PROGRAM FILES\BADBLUE\PE\script.php on line 13
!?!

As you can tell im running PHP 4 on BadBlue Personal Server on My Win98 SE Platform

Any help?

Thanks

[Anon]

OOps ...

In the erro it doesn't say FavoriteWord it says state...

[Anon]

Try $GET["state"] if request method is GET, and $POST["state"] if request method if POST. Please notice that the variable name is case sensitive... $POST["state"] !=$POST["STATE"].

H.L.

[Anon]

Thanks!!!

It Worked!!!

Im new to PHP , so im sorry if it was kind of a stupid question

thanks again!!!

[Anon]

All form variables are passed in either the $GET or $POST array depending on method. There's a cheap trick to getting at them without having to type all the extra array stuff. Just add:

extract($_POST);

to the start of your script, and all of your "post" submitted values will be assigned to regular variables (i.e. $state)

[Anon]

Try this:

echo $_REQUEST["state"];