How to turn form data into strings?

[zartzar]

Hi i need to have a few values that i submitted in a form turned in to strings. My form handler is a seperate php file. How do i turn those values into strings?

[premiso]

Depending on how the form is processed either

 

$forminputname = $_GET['forminputname']; // OR
$form2inputname = $_POST['form2inputname'];

[Maq]

If you're referring to casting the variables to strings, you don't have to.  PHP is a very loosely typed language, can I ask what your reason is for this?

[zartzar]

Depending on how the form is processed either

 

$forminputname = $_GET['forminputname']; // OR
$form2inputname = $_POST['form2inputname'];

 

D'oh! Thats so obvious :palmface:. Still i cant get it to work. Whats wrong with my code?:

 

print "<tr> <td>Race Distance:</td> <td> {$_POST['distance']} </td> </tr>";

print "<tr> <td>Race Time:</td> <td> {$_POST['H']} Hours, {$_POST['M']} Min </td> </tr>";

print "<tr> <td>Your average speed should be:</td> <td> $average </td> </tr>";

 

$H=$_POST['H'];

$M=$_POST['M'];

$distance=$_POST['distance'];

$average=$H+($M/60)/$distance;

 

it just prints nothing for $average

 

?

[zartzar]

Oh! I should declare the variables before printing everything 

[premiso]

Oh! I should declare the variables before printing everything 

 

That tends to help.