Hello folks! welcome back to a new edition of our tutorial on PHP. In this tutorial guide, we will be discussing about the PHP Form Handling.
What is a Dynamic Website?
A dynamic website is a site that provides the full functionalities that can be used to store, update, retrieve, and delete the data in a database.
What is a Form?
A form is simply a document that contains blank fields, that the user can fill the data or user can select the data. Generally the data will be stored in the database.
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Example
The below example shows how a form can be used to perform some specific actions by using the post method -
<html> <head> <title>PHP Form Validation</title> </head> <body> <?php // define variables and set to empty values $name = $email = $gender = $comment = $website = ""; if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") { $name = test_input($_POST["name"]); $email = test_input($_POST["email"]); $website = test_input($_POST["website"]); $comment = test_input($_POST["comment"]); $gender = test_input($_POST["gender"]); } function test_input($data) { $data = trim($data); $data = stripslashes($data); $data = htmlspecialchars($data); return $data; } ?> <h2>Web Design Tutorialz course registration form</h2> <form method = "post" action = "/php/php_form_introduction.htm"> <table> <tr> <td>Name:</td> <td><input type = "text" name = "name"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>E-mail:</td> <td><input type = "text" name = "email"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Specific Time:</td> <td><input type = "text" name = "website"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Class details:</td> <td><textarea name = "comment" rows = "5" cols = "40"></textarea></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Gender:</td> <td> <input type = "radio" name = "gender" value = "female">Female <input type = "radio" name = "gender" value = "male">Male </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <input type = "submit" name = "submit" value = "Submit"> </td> </tr> </table> </form> <?php echo "<h2>Your Given details are as :</h2>"; echo $name; echo "<br>"; echo $email; echo "<br>"; echo $website; echo "<br>"; echo $comment; echo "<br>"; echo $gender; ?> </body> </html>
Output
When the above code is executed, it will produce the following result -
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Alright guys! This is where we are going to be rounding up for this tutorial post. In our next tutorial, we are going to be discussing about PHP Form Validation.
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