Need help echoing Text

[jwilh]

I am learning php and I want a textarea that I can type in my name and hit submit, then it echo the name to the screen. I dont have any problems with the rest and I know I have made this before I just dont remember how. Any help would be greatly appreciated!  ???

[obsidian]

Here's what you're after:
[code]
<?php
if (isset($_POST['name'])) echo "<p>Name entered: $_POST[name]</p>\n";
?>

<form name="myName" action="" method="post">
Name: <input type="text" name="name" value="" /><br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
[/code]

[jwilh]

That worked perfect, any chance I can get you to point me in the direction of some tutorials to take that a step farther. ( use a cookie of some sort to check Ip addy and compare it to the name to see that it is really that person?) Thanks for the help, that really helped me alot!