[FX.php List] Newbie: Making a form

[Alex Gates]

Ed-

I feel for you as I'm new to all this, too.
If you are using POST as your method in your HTML form, you can assign
the posted data to a variable with, for example:

$categories = ($_POST['categories']);

$categories is what you want your PHP variable to be called
and the 'categories' inside ($_POST['categories']) is the name of your
input from your HTML form.
i.e <input type="text" name="categories" etc. etc. etc. >


If your form action is to a different page, it will carry the POST data
over and that's where you would say 
$categories = ($_POST['categories']); 
(enclosed in <?php  ?> of course)

So- that's how you get it into PHP - and AC's reply will help you get it
into FileMaker.

It's fun stuff once it starts working how you want it to work!

Best of luck!

Alex P. Gates
G&R Publishing Co.
507 Industrial Street
Waverly, IA 50677
Ph: 319-352-5391 x 319 

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[mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Edward L.
Ford
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 2:47 PM
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Subject: [FX.php List] Newbie: Making a form

Greetings,

I'm just getting started with using FX.php.  I've got the basics of 
displaying records down, but I'm trying to figure out how to get data 
from a user into the database.  How do I make an HTML form interact with

PHP?  For instance, if I have a form that has a field for Last Name, how

do I get the data from that field into a PHP variable?  When I get it 
into a variable, I'm sure I can handle the rest.

An additional consideration in my situation is, can I have the form on a

strictly HTML page, and then have the PHP parsing take place on another 
page /after/ the user clicks a submit button?  This would be a great 
help because of certain specific circumstances of how I need to use
this.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
--Ed Ford
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