Making a text box change a varible

[Lee-Bartlett]

At the moment there is a varible called $to with an email in, i need a text box, which will change that data in that varible to what ever i put in the text box, if you know what i mean. Say this is the varible

 

$to = bob  .........  puts jim in text box then submits it ........... new varible ............ $to = jim

 

anyone got a tut on how to do that?

[premiso]

Depending if you post or get

 

$_POST

$_GET

 

After you enter the info the text box you have to submit that page in order to do what you want. During the <form> tag declaration define method as get or post depending on which use the above to access what you chose.

[.josh]

 

<?php
  $to = ($_POST['to'])? $_POST['to'] : 'bob';
?>

<form action = '' method = 'post'>
   Enter something here: 
   <input type = 'text' name = 'to'>
   <input type = 'submit' value = 'submit'>
</form>

 

 

[Lee-Bartlett]

that only works if its in the same file right? if so i cant use that. My situation i need it in an admin folder page and the email bit is in the users section.

[Lee-Bartlett]

i was thinking about using a database table and just storing it in there reckon that will work?

[.josh]

If you can't figure out how to break that up into several files, what makes you think you are ready to jump into databases?  No offense, but I think you probably need to start out with square one: a "hello world" tutorial.  Actually, you probably need to start with learning HTML first.