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    Forms and PHP

    Chapter 11

    www.php-intro.com

    To be used in association with the book:



    PHP, MySql, and JavaScript by Robin Nixon

    Forms Submit Data


    form1.php

    <p>Guessing game...</p>
    <form>
    <p><label for="guess">Input Guess</label>
    <input type="text" name="guess" id="guess"/></p>
    <input type="submit"/>
    </form>

    $_GET and $_POST


    PHP loads the values for the URL parameters into an array
    called $_GET and the POST parameters into an array called
    $_POST

    There is another array called $_REQUEST which merges
    GET and POST data

    <pre>

    The <pre> tag defines pre formatted text, and is displayed in a
    fixed-width font (usually Courier), and it preserves both spaces
    and line breaks. Usually we use <pre> element when displaying
    text with unusual formatting, or some sort of computer code.

    <p>Guessing game...</p>
    <form>
    <p>
    <label for="guess">Input Guess</label>
    <input type="text" name="guess"
    id="guess"/>
    </p>
    <input type="submit"/></form>
    <pre>$_GET:
    <?php print_r($_GET);?>
    </pre>

    form2.php

    <p>Guessing game...</p>
    form3.php

    <form method="post"><p>
    <label for="guess">Input Guess</label>
    <input type="text" name="guess" size="40" id="guess"/></p>
    <input type="submit"/>
    </form>
    <pre>
    $_POST:<?php print_r($_POST);?>
    $_GET:<?php
    print_r($_GET);?>
    </pre>

    form4.php

    <?php
    $oldguess = isset($_POST['guess']) ? $_POST['guess'] : '';
    ?>
    <p>Guessing game...</p>
    <form method="post">
    <p><label for="guess">Input Guess</label>
    <input type="text" name="guess" id="guess" size="40"
    <?php echo 'value="' . $oldguess . '"'; ?> /></p>
    <input type="submit"/>
    </form>

    Can anyone guess the output?



    What is this program tries to do?

    Hygene Alert!

    form4.php

    What happens when we use an HTML character in a form


    field value??

    form4.php

    <form method="post">
    <p><label for="guess">Input Guess</label>
    <input type="text" name="guess"
    id="guess"value=""><b>DIE DIE</b>"
    /></p>
    <input type="submit"/>
    </form>

    To The Rescue: htmlentities()



    <form method="post">
    <p><label for="guess">Input Guess</label>
    <input type="text" name="guess" id="guess
    <?php echo 'value="' . htmlentities($oldguess) . '"';?> />
    </p>
    <input type="submit"/>
    </form>

    form5.php

    <form method="post">
    <p><label for="guess">Input Guess</label>
    <input type="text" name="guess" id="guess"<?php echo 'value="' .
    htmlentities($oldguess) . '"';?> />
    </p>
    <input type="submit"/></form>

    <input type="text" name="guess"


    id="guess"value="&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;DIE DIE&lt;/b&gt;"

    /></p>

    Guess.php handling incoming POST data (part1)



    <?php
    $guess = '';
    $message = false;
    if ( isset($_POST['guess']) ){
    // Trick for int/num parameters
    $guess = $_POST['guess'] + 0;
    if ( $guess == 42 ) $message = "Great job!";
    else if ( $guess < 42 ) $message = "Too low";
    else $message = "Too high...";
    }
    ?>

    guess.php

    Guess.php producing the page output (part2)



    <html><head>
    <title>A Guessing game</title>
    </head>
    <body style="font-family: sans-serif;">
    <p>Guessing game...</p>
    <?php if ( $message !== false )
    echo("<p>$message</p>\n");
    ?>
    <form method="post">
    <p><label for="guess">Input Guess</label>
    <input type="text" name="guess" id="guess" size="40" <?php
    echo 'value="' . htmlentities($guess) . '"';?>
    /></p>
    <input type="submit"/>
    </form>
    </body>

    Complete guess.php version


    <?php
    $guess = '';
    $message = false;
    if ( isset($_POST['guess']) ) {
    // Trick for integer / numeric parameters
    $guess = $_POST['guess'] + 0;
    if ( $guess == 42 )
    $message = "Great job!";
    else if ( $guess < 42 )
    $message = "Too low";
    else
    $message = "Too high...";
    }?>
    <html><head><title>A Guessing game</title></head>
    <body style="font-family: sans-serif;">
    <p>Guessing game...</p>
    <?php
    if ( $message !== false ) echo("<p>$message</p>\n"); ?>
    <form method="post">
    <p><label for="guess">Input Guess</label>
    <input type="text" name="guess" id="guess" size="40"
    <?php
    echo 'value="' . htmlentities($guess) . '"';?>
    /></p>
    <input type="submit"/>
    </form>
    </body>

    guess.php

    <?php
    $guess = '';
    $message = false;
    if ( isset($_POST['guess']) ) {
    $guess = $_POST['guess'] + 0;
    if ( $guess == 42 )
    $message = "Great job!";
    else if ( $guess < 42 )
    $message = "Too low";
    else
    $message = "Too high...";
    }
    ?>
    <html> ...

    guess.php

    <html><head><title>A Guessing game</title></head>


    <body style="font-family: sans-serif;">
    <p>Guessing game...</p>
    <?php if ( $message !== false ) {
    echo("<p>$message</p>\n");
    }?>
    <form method="post">
    <p><label for="guess">Input Guess</label>
    <input type="text" name="guess" id="guess" size="40"
    <?php
    echo 'value="' . htmlentities($guess) . '"';?>
    <input type="submit"/>
    </form>
    </body>

    /></p>

    guess.php

    Other Input Types


    more.php

    Text

    Password

    Radio Button

    Check Box

    Select / Drop-Down

    TextArea

    <p>Many field types...</p>


    <form method="post" action="more.php">
    <p><label for="inp01">Account:</label>
    <input type="text" name="account" id="inp01" size="40" ></p>
    <p><label for="inp02">Password:</label>
    <input type="password" name="pw" id="inp02" size="40" ></p>
    <p><label for="inp03">Nick Name:</label>
    <input type="text" name="nick" id="inp03" size="40" ></p>

    $_POST:Array(!
    [account] => Beth [pw] => 12345
    [nick] => BK [when] => pm ...)!

    more.php

    <p>Preferred Time:<br/>
    <input type="radio" name="when" value="am">AM<br>
    <input type="radio" name="when" value="pm" checked>PM
    </p>

    $_POST:Array(!
    ...
    [nick] => BK

    [when] => pm

    [class] => si502

    more.php

    ...)!

    more.php

    Which buildings do you
    <input type="checkbox"
    <input type="checkbox"
    <input type="checkbox"
    Complex<br />
    <input type="checkbox"
    <input type="checkbox"

    want access to?<br />


    name="formDoor[]" value="A" />Acorn Building<br />
    name="formDoor[]" value="B" />Brown Hall<br />
    name="formDoor[]" value="C" />Carnegie
    name="formDoor[]" value="D" />Drake Commons<br />
    name="formDoor[]" value="E" />Elliot House

    <p><label for="inp06">Which soda:


    <select name="soda" id="inp06">
    <option value="0">-- Please Select --</option>
    <option value="1">Coke</option>
    <option value="2">Pepsi</option>
    <option value="3">Mountain Dew</option>
    <option value="4">Orange Juice</option>
    <option value="5">Lemonade</option>
    </select>
    </p>

    $_POST:Array(!
    ...
    [class] => si502 [soda] => 0 [snack] => peanuts

    more.php

    ...)!

    <p><label for="inp07">Which snack:


    <select name="snack" id="inp07">
    <option value="">-- Please Select --</option>
    <option value="chips">Chips</option>
    <option value="peanuts" selected>Peanuts</option>
    <option value="cookie">Cookie</option>
    </select>
    </p>

    $_POST:Array(!
    ...
    [class] => si502 [soda] => 0
    peanuts ...)!

    [snack] =>

    more.php

    <p><label for="inp08">Tell us about yourself:<br/>


    <textarea rows="10" cols="40" id="inp08" name="about">
    I love building web sites in PHP and MySQL.
    </textarea>
    </p>

    more.php

    $_POST:Array(!
    ...[about] => I love building web sites in PHP and MySQL.
    [dopost] => Submit ...)!

    Summary

    Forms, $_GET and $_POST



    Sanitizing HTML

    Create form

    Retrieve form

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