HTML form POST to PHP page
ok ... i created a form.html page. It prompts the user for input in 6 text fields. POST form to a separate page called myform.php. The myform.php page just returns the values entered by the user. However, when I click the submit button, I just get myform.php source code popping up on the screen.
<div class="content">
<form action="myform.php" method="post">
Name: <input name="name" type="text" size="25" />
Course: <input name="course" type="text" size="25" />
Book: <input name="book" type="text" size="255" />
Price: <input name="price" type="text" size="7" />
Email: <input name="email" type="text" size="255" />
Phone #: <input name="phone" type="text" size="12" />
<input name="mySubmit" type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>
</div>
<?php
$name = $_POST["name"];
$course = $_POST["course"];
$book = $_POST["book"];
$price = $_POST["price"];
$email = $_POST["email"];
$phone = $_POST["phone"];
?>
</head>
<body>
<?php
echo $name;
?>
</body>
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Mark Tetsler is right. You want the PHP extension page for PHP code to be rendered first. But I would suggest that you separate your form and form processing pages. I would suggest the following:
myform.php:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<div class="content">
<form action="formprocessor.php" method="POST">
<label>Name: </label>
<input name="name" type="text" size="25" />
<label>Course: </label>
<input name="course" type="text" size="25" />
<label>Book: </label>
<input name="book" type="text" size="255" />
<label>Price: </label>
<input name="price" type="text" size="7" />
<label>Email: </label>
<input name="email" type="text" size="255" />
<label>Phone #: </label>
<input name="phone" type="text" size="12" />
<input name="mySubmit" type="submit" value="Submit!" />
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>
formprocessor.php:
<?php
$name = $_POST["name"];
$course = $_POST["course"];
$book = $_POST["book"];
$price = $_POST["price"];
$email = $_POST["email"];
$phone = $_POST["phone"];
echo $name;
?>
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