fcleffer Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 ??? I am working through a book Professional PHP Programming - 1999 Wrox Press. I know it's OLD! On pg 68 I created a Variable - easy - Hard coded $username="Eric"; <? ECHO ($username); ?> Works .. Cool! next it says you can create same variable by inputing HTML FORM <HTML><FORM> Type Your Name<BR><INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME=username> ... blah blah submit. Then! <? echo ($username); ?> -- TEXT shows in URL but doesn't echo anything. (HTML) NAME=username creates (PHP) variable $username I have tried Firefox and IE because I thought my browser might be blocking the variable. ??Has the syntax changed from the php v.3 to the v.5?? Do I need to reconfigure Apache? Am I a bonehead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raku Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 Hi, If the form action is sent to get as I think it is since you said the variable is in the URL, you can access the variable like this: $username = $_GET['username']; Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raku Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 Sorry, I meant to say: If the form action is set to "get", not sent. To elaborate a little.. get means that the variable is in the URL like: www.example.com/example.php?username=hi $username = $_GET['username']; echo $username; Should output "hi"; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 That book assumes super globals is on.... No offense, but a 1999 book might be a little.... Too old. PHP has changed A LOT in 8 years.... Also, there's a lot of online tutorials now. For this problem, I suggest reading about $_GET and $_POST. http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_get.asp http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_post.asp http://www.tizag.com/phpT/postget.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcleffer Posted December 25, 2007 Author Share Posted December 25, 2007 The Get helps ... Learning from a very OLD BOOK doesn't work!! Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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