[FX.php List] Newbie: Making a form

[Bob Patin]

1. You need to refer to 2 files in the FX folder; your code should  
begin like this:

<?php
include_once('FX/server_data.php');
include_once('FX/FX.php');

Otherwise, FX.php won't be able to process your PHP code.


2. Change $_REQUEST to $_POST.

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When you get stuck like this, a good first step is to make sure  
you're getting your variables from your form, like this:

echo $_POST['FirstName'];

This is almost NEVER the problem in a scenario like this, so you  
might instead do this:

$firstname=$_POST['FirstName'];

Then you can echo $firstname whenever you want to use it; I use this  
all the time so that I can plug the name into the processing page  
whenever I want to, like this, perhaps:

Hello, <?php echo $firstname; ?>!

This embeds the name into that sentence.

Hope this helps,

Bob Patin
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On Jul 29, 2006, at 6:17 PM, Edward L. Ford wrote:

>>> <?php
>>> if($_REQUEST['ButtonPressed']=='New Continue'){
>>>       include_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "bumo/cfa-mel/ 
>>> FX.php");                          include_once($_SERVER 
>>> ['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "bumo/cfa-mel/ 
>>> server_data.php");                 $Search = new FX($serverIP,  
>>> $webCompanionPort, $dataSourceType);
>>>    $Search->SetDBData($databaseFile, "Musicians_Web");
>>>    $Search->SetDBUserPass ($webUN, $webPW);
>>>
>>>    $Search->AddDBParam('FirstName', stripslashes($_REQUEST 
>>> ['FirstName']));
>>>    $Search->AddDBParam('LastName', stripslashes($_REQUEST 
>>> ['LastName']));
>>>    $ResultAll = $Search -> FMNew();
>>> }
>>> ?>

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