need help getting form to submit/go from a submit area - php

so I'm currently following this tutorial on PHP forms and ive made it to the bottom of this page where it says to test the form so far, http://www.webreference.com/programming/php/search/2.html
"Save your file and test your form at this point (search_display.php)."
When I go to type in a users name in thew design view of dreamweaver and hit submit nothing happens (as if the page is refreshing) however, when i navigate to my file from my MySQL (XAMP and phpMyADmin) server directory i can view my search page but there is no text box/area for me to enter in any data. I have followed/copied this tutorial verbatim and im quite unsure on why I can not get my data to submit to the query. Here is the code for my search page
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Search Contacts</title>
</head>
<p>
<body>
<h3>Search Contacts Details</h3>
<p>You may search either by first or last name</p>
<form method="post" action="search.php?go" id="searchform">
<p>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search">
</p>
</form>
</body>
</p>
</html>
Thanks guys for the help.

Your HTML form is missing a text field. Please check the HTML sample on the first tutorial page.
Side note: you really should not be following this tutorial as it is greatly outdated, teaches bad practices and will not work when using PHP 7+ due to the removed mysql extension.

1. Place this code where you need the form. For example index.php . There is no input field in your form. So add input fields. For example i am adding email and mobile no as input fields
<h3>Search Contacts Details</h3>
<p>You may search either by first or last name</p>
<form method="post" action="search.php" id="searchform">
<input type="text" name="email" value="">
<input type="text" name="mobileno" value="">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search">
</form>
2. Create another page called search.php and place the below code here
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
$email = $_POST['email'];
$mobileno = $_POST['mobileno'];
}
Validate all the fields before inserting into database.

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