PHP Tizag Tutorial-50
PHP Tizag Tutorial-50
PHP Tizag Tutorial-50
Recall from the PHP Forms Lesson where we used an HTML form and sent it to a PHP web page for
processing. In that lesson we opted to use the the post method for submitting, but we could have also chosen
the get method. This lesson will review both transferring methods.
POST - Review
In our PHP Forms Lesson we used the post method. This is what the pertinent line of HTML code looked
like:
This HTML code specifies that the form data will be submitted to the "process.php" web page using the
POST method. The way that PHP does this is to store all the "posted" values into an associative array called
"$_POST". Be sure to take notice the names of the form data names, as they represent the keys in the
"$_POST" associative array.
Now that you know about associative arrays, the PHP code from "process.php" should make a litte more
sense.
The form names are used as the keys in the associative array, so be sure that you never have two input
items in your HTML form that have the same name. If you do, then you might see some problems arise.