[SOLVED] Newby help with form

[Mike088]

Hi all I'll start of by saying I am really new to PHP . I am trying to create a form in which a user submits a word then it outputs a list of words which are generated from a PHP class. How would I go about doing this lol?

[genericnumber1]

There are a lot of results for php form handling on google. What do you mean it outputs a list of words from a class? Does the input have to do with how these words are generated? Are the words hard coded into a class? from a database?

[.josh]

I wouldn't really recommend diving into classes if you don't know how to do basic form submission.  But regardless, you're going to have to be more specific about how this class generates this list of words, and how the submitted word is supposed to interact.  In other words, you need to write out in plain english what it is you want to happen, before you can go about coding it.  But even then, don't just tell us what you want.  We aren't here to write code for you.  Write out what you want in plain english, break it down step by step, research how to do each step, if you get stuck on actual code, post the code.

[redarrow]

 

quick 1 page example for you.........

 

save the page as example.php try it ......

 

 

 

<center><h3>Please type >>css<< or >>php<< or >>html<<</h3></center>

<br><br>

<?php

if(isset($_POST['submit'])){


$words=(trim($_POST['words']));

switch ($words){

case(php);

echo " <center><h1>php is the best!</h1></center>";

break;

case(html);

echo "<center><h1>html is grate fun!</h1></center>";

break;

case(css);

echo"<center><h1>css is so good fun!</h1></center>";

break;

}
}
?>

<center>
<form method="POST" action="<?php $_SEVER['PHP_SELF']?>">
Type a word please
<br>
<input type="text" name="words">
<br><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="post the famous word!"> 
</form>
</center>

 

[Mike088]

Thanks for the replies. I have a basic script as follows:

 

<form action="index.php" method="post">
Enter Your Word: <input type="text" name="word" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

<?php echo $_POST["word"]; ?>

 

As you can see I have it just outputting the word that was input. I have a PHP class that generates common misspellings from a word (in this case I want it to be the word the user is inputting to my form). I have no idea on how to get the interaction between the input word and the class. The class I am wanting to use is http://web-professor.net/scripts/typo/cTypoGenerator.txt. 

 

[Bendude14]

what about the example shown...

Example Usage:
-----------------------------------------------------------
<?php

if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {

$word =  trim($_POST["word"]); 
$typos = array();
$typos = cTypoGenerator::getAllTypos( $word );

print_r( $typos );


}

?>

 

i have also checked if post submit is set so make sure you add name="submit" to your submit button

 

[Bendude14]

should probably add that you will need to include the file with your class in above that snippet of code

 

and instead of using print_r

 

you might want to use something like this to generate a list

 

foreach($typos as $word) {

echo $word . "<br />";

}

[redarrow]

Sorry that class no good for me, I slip with my hands on the keys all the time ill have a constant error lol.......................................................

 

 

add a

<?php include("script_name.php");?>

to the posted below example

 

DONT FORGET THE DONATION PAGE OFF THIS FORUM.........

 

<?php

include("script_name.php");

if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {

$word =  trim($_POST["word"]); 
$typos = array();
$typos = cTypoGenerator::getAllTypos( $word );

foreach($typos as $word) {

echo $word . "<br />";

}

}

<form action="index.php" method="post">
Enter Your Word: <input type="text" name="word" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

?>

[Mike088]

Thank you all very much for the help (/answers lol)