I have a very simple app, it's only one php page (page A). I would like add one more php page (page B) that receives data from an html form of "page A". I haven't found any tutorials about it. Can you help me?
GET METHOD
Page A: (eg. index.html)
<form action="welcome.php" method="get">
Name: <input type="text" name="fname" />
Age: <input type="text" name="age" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
Page B (welcome php)
Welcome <?php echo $_GET["fname"]; ?>.<br />
You are <?php echo $_GET["age"]; ?> years old!
When to use method="get"?
When using method="get" in HTML forms, all variable names and values are displayed in the URL.
Note: This method should not be used when sending passwords or other sensitive information!
However, because the variables are displayed in the URL, it is possible to bookmark the page. This can be useful in some cases.
Note: The get method is not suitable for very large variable values. It should not be used with values exceeding 2000 characters.
POST METHOD
Page A: (eg. index.html)
<form action="welcome.php" method="post">
Name: <input type="text" name="fname" />
Age: <input type="text" name="age" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
Page B (welcome php)
Welcome <?php echo $_POST["fname"]; ?>!<br />
You are <?php echo $_POST["age"]; ?> years old.
When to use method="post"?
Information sent from a form with the POST method is invisible to others and has no limits on the amount of information to send.
However, because the variables are not displayed in the URL, it is not possible to bookmark the page.
The PHP $_REQUEST Function
The PHP built-in $_REQUEST function contains the contents of both $_GET, $_POST, and $_COOKIE.
The $_REQUEST function can be used to collect form data sent with both the GET and POST methods.
Example
Welcome <?php echo $_REQUEST["fname"]; ?>!<br />
You are <?php echo $_REQUEST["age"]; ?> years old.
If you are using Form on Page A then you can post the values from that form to another page B.
if you are not using post or get you can still pass values from one page to another by creating session.
Html form can have action set to Page B and $_POST or $_GET can give you data from page A to Page B
You are best off looking into a few tutorials this is PHP 101.
You can store the data in a session or cookie.
You can use a form to POST data to the next page.
you can use GET to send data in the uri
Here is a tutorial for POST and GET
Edit : It sounds like you wish to pass the variables with a redirect. You could set the variables in session and retrieve them later or pass the variables in the redirect and fetch them using $_GET. Rather than redirecting to example.php redirect to example.php?var=value.
Related
I'm trying to create a cookie for a web page. The cookie value will vary based on the users name. Does PHP have an input type function? I just want to add an input field to the page an then the PHP will use that to define the users name for the page. I have the create cookie code, just can't figure out how to get the name from the screen and insert it to the cookie code. Appreciate any suggestions. This is on a WP website.
Not natively because php does not execute in browser, it executes on your server, but it can be used to write an HTML input.
The syntax would look something like this:
echo '<input type="text" name="myinput">';
or
?>
<input type="text" name="myinput">
<?php
You would then use a form post, CURL, or AJAX function to send the data back to the server where a second PHP script would process the input.
That said, it would help to post your create cookie code, since you may not even need to send it back to the server, but just handle it all in the browser using Javascript in which case your submit button only needs to pass the input to a Javascript function instead of posting it.
Is this something you are looking for?
Here it just takes the value user input from the browser and set it as a cookie
<?php
if(isset($_POST['name']) && !empty($_POST['name'])){
setcookie('setcookie_name',$_POST['name']); // setting cookie
}
?>
<form action="" method="post">
<input name="name" value="" placeholder="Enter your name" />
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit"/>
</form>
I am looking for a bit of code to do the following:
A form containing a single text field and a submit button, must send the value of the text field to a landing page that automatically counts how many html tags that this page contains.
E.g. if the text field states stackoverflow.com, the landing page should say (H1 tags = 20) with many more parameters to come.
How is this done? I know how to make a form, but I do not know how to make it send its value to the landing page.
<form action="landingpage.php/" method="post">
The URL
<input type="text" name="cf_name">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
This piece of code is a perfect answer to your question.
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="GET">
Type In Something: <input name="random-info" type="text" size="25">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form> <br>
<?php
echo "You Typed: " . $_GET['random-info'];
?>
you get the method into the url, then you can use them on another page.
To access data from a form it depends on the method. Since your code shows a post message you simply access it in the php on the landing page by user $POST_['cf_name'].
To learn more you can check out:
http://w3schools.com/php/php_post.asp about the post method and http://w3schools.com/php/php_get.asp about the get method.
Also an invaluable source is php manual itself.
As far as counting the tags, not really sure what you are trying to achieve.
If you are counting the tags in the page you create, just make a variable and add to it each time you put that specific tag on the page.
Then you can put those values in a hidden field of the form to be passed into your landing page.
I have a page that post data to another page once a form has been submitted. I am guessing server. Please correct me if I am wrong.
<form action="http://192.168.1.118/collegeShuttle/test/welcome.php" method="post">
Name: <input type="text" name="fname" />
Age: <input type="text" name="age" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
It all great that I can do this on my second page and expect get the data back
<html>
Welcome <?php echo $_POST["fname"]; ?>!<br />
You are <?php echo $_POST["age"]; ?> years old.
</html>
My biggest problem is that, when I navigate to that page from a different device or computer. I get error messages saying that those variables are undefined. My question is that if it claims to be posting to the server why cant I access it from different computers? If that is not the case, is there a way to send data to the server that I can access from any computer?
the $_POST data is being sent to http://192.168.1.118/collegeShuttle/test/welcome.php, so are you getting the data in that page?
Post data has a resquest scope, if you want to persist the data on server probably wanna use a database.
Before you learn php you need to study the at less some of "http"
because your second device does not have same value in cookie named phpsessid. If you want to work it that way submit the form from one device . Note the phpsessid cookie value , on second device create cookie with name phpsesid and put value you copied before . Now open the second page.
try this :
<html>
Welcome<?php echo $_REQUEST["fname"]; ?>!<br />
You are <?php echo $_REQUEST["age"]; ?> years old.
</html>
The $_POST variable is defined whenever someone sends POST data to your page (usually via form, like you have listed above). The variable is only defined when POST data has been submitted to the page and will only be valid for that request (from which the data was sent). If you open a different window resending the POST data, then it is lost.
Near the top of my page, I have this:
<?php $id = $_GET['id']; ?>
Then I have some form check conditionals that read from POST:
if (isset($_POST['completeSubmit'])) {
//code
}
And finally, I have an HTML form which looks like this:
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?id=$id"; ?>" name="complete" method="post">
<input type="submit" id="textButton" name="completeSubmit" value="[mark as complete]">
</form>
The page is initially accessed by using GET with an id variable like this:
http://website.com/page.php?id=1
All subsequent form submissions (which get redirected to the same page) fail. I know you can't send both GET and POST in the same request, but seeing as my form is submitting to $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?id=$id" using POST shouldn't it work? This is my first time trying this so it is quite possible I've overlooked something trivial.
You can use get and post at the same time, but you shouldn't. If you want to continue to send the ID this is as simple as:
<form ...
<input type="submit" ...
<input type="hidden" name="id"
value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_GET['id'], ENT_QUOTES); ?>" />
</form>
Of course you can not use GET and POST methods simultaneously.
However you can use a query string while sending a form using POST method, which being used to populate $_GET array.
To find a certain error you have to provide more info. At least 2 things:
how does HTML form look
what do yo see in the query string after posting the form.
and errr...
do you use any header redirects in the form processing?
I know it is php global variable but I'm not sure, what it do?
I also read from official php site, but did not understand.
You may want to read up on the basics of PHP. Try reading some starter tutorials.
$_POST is a variable used to grab data sent through a web form.
Here's a simple page describing $_POST and how to use it from W3Schools: PHP $_POST Function
Basically:
Use HTML like this on your first page:
<form action="submit.php" method="post">
Email: <input type="text" name="emailaddress" /> <input type="submit" value="Subscribe" />
</form>
Then on submit.php use something like this:
<?
echo "You subscribed with the email address:";
echo $_POST['emailaddress'];
?>
There are generally 2 ways of sending an HTTP request to a server:
GET
POST
Say you have a <form> on a page.
<form method="post">
<input type="text" name="yourName" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
Notice the "method" attribute of the form is set to "post". So in the PHP script that receives this HTTP request, $_POST[ 'yourName' ] will have the value when this form is submitted.
If you had used the GET method in your form:
<form method="get">
<input type="text" name="yourName" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
Then $_GET['yourName'] will have the value sent in by the form.
$_REQUEST['yourName'] contains all the variables that were posted, whether they were sent by GET or POST.
It's used to store CGI input via a POST sent to your page.
Example:
Your page contains:
<form action="welcome.php" method="post">
Name: <input type="text" name="fname" />
Age: <input type="text" name="age" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
One the user submits the values input into the form, you can access those variables through $_POST using the names you provided for the input tags.
Welcome <?php echo $_POST["fname"]; ?>!<br />
You are <?php echo $_POST["age"]; ?> years old.
You can capture post values from forms:
Example:
<form method="POST">
<input type="text" name="txtName" value="Test" />
</form>
To get this you'll use:
$_POST["txtName"];
It contains data sent by HTTP post, this is most often from a HTML FORM.
<form action="page.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="email" ...>
...
</form>
Will be accessible by
$_POST["email"]
It contains the data submitted via the POST method, and only the POST method, versus data submitted via the GET method. The $_REQUEST superglobal variable contains both $_POST and $_GET data.
When data is posted through a form to the server, you access it through the $_POST array:
<form method="post">
<p><input type="text" name="firstname" /></p>
<p><input type="submit" /></p>
</form>
--
<?php
if ($_POST)
print $_POST["name"];
?>
Not all data is sent through $_POST through. File uploads are done through $_FILES.
As defined by the Hypertext Transfer Protocol specifications, there are several types of requests that a client (web browser) can make to a resource (web server).
The two most common types of web requests are GET and POST. PHP automatically loads any client request data into the global arrays, $_GET and $_POST, based on the type of web request received. The type of request is transparent to the user of the web browser, and is simply based on what is going on in the page. In general however, any regular link you click produces a GET request, and any form you submit produces as POST request.
If you click a link that goes to "http://example.com/index.php?x=123&y=789", then index.php will have it's $_GET array populated with $_GET['x'] = '123' and $_GET['y'] = '789'.
If you submit a form that has the following structure:
<form action="http://example.com/index.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="x">
</form>
Then the receiving script, index.php, will have it's $_POST array populated with $_POST['x'] = 'whatever you typed into the textbox named x';
There are two ways of sending data from a form to a web app, GET and POST.
GET sends the data as part of the URL string: http://www.example.com/get.html?fred=1&sam=2 is an example of what that would look like. There are some problems with using it for all processing, one of the biggest is that every browser has a different maximum length for the query string, so you may have your data truncated.
POST sends them separately from the URL. You avoid the short length limit, plus you can send binary or encrypted data with POST.
In the first example above, PHP can retrieve the values sent by $_GET['fred'] and $_GET['sam']. You would use $_POST instead if the form was POSTed.
If you're wondering which method you should use, start here
$_POST is used to retrieve values passed to your page via a POST request.
For example, your page uses a form to pass data to another page in your application. Your form would have
<form method="post">
to pass those values via POST.
It is matched by $_GET which perform the same function for GET requests.
If you want to be able to reference either GET/POST values, you can use $_REQUEST
It contains any values posted from a HTML form to this script.