Yep, I've been going over this with John off-list, I learned something
new tonite. One thing about his script - it doesn't print the text
entered in the box, it only prints the work Hallo. To fix that would
require adding
. "$name";
to the end of the echo statement.
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@ Edwin wrote this stuff back on Mon, 14 Oct 2002 11:55:28 +0900:
> Hello,
>
> Just for the sake of the argument...
>
> On Monday, October 14, 2002 10:44 AM
> Chip Wiegand wrote:
>
> > Sascha Cunz wrote this stuff back on Mon, 14 Oct 2002 01:13:53
> > +0200:
> >
> > > This beautifies it (even makes it a bit more secure), but one
> > > doesn't need it really; should have worked without these changes,
> > > too. (Of course, it's better to include these changes)
> > >
> > > Sascha
> >
> > No it shouldn't have worked the way you had it originally. The isset
> > statement HAS to have the same value as the submit buttom name or it
> > won't work at all.
>
> Yes it will. Try it. ;)
>
> Of course, I didn't mean to say that it will work the way you want it.
> I just wanted to say that it would still work even though the isset
> statement doen't have the same value with the submit button. Remember,
> isset() is basically a function to check if something is set or not...
>
> So, changing this
>
> > > > if (isset($_GET['submit']))
>
> to this
>
> > > > if (isset($_GET['name']))
>
> will have a similar result (for the short code discussed here).
>
> - E
>
> PS
> Typo: (should be $_GET['name'])
> > > > echo "Hallo ".$GET['name'];
>
> > As for the beautify part, that's just the way I write
> > my code, that doesn't matter at all to whether or not the script
> > will work.
> >
> > --
> > Chip
> >
> > > > The value of name for the submit button is wrong - it should be
> > > > the same as the value you gave the isset statement, in this case
> > > > it should be<input type="submit" name="name" value="sendit">
> > > > Better yet is to use isset($submit) and the value for the submit
> > > > statement is also name="submit" -
> > > > <input type="submit" name="submit" value="sendit">
> > > > of course value is optional. So you end up with this -
> > > >
> > > > <?
> > > > if (isset($_GET['submit']))
> > > > {
> > > > echo "Hallo ".$GET['name'];
> > > > }
> > > > else
> > > > {
> > > > echo "<FORM action='test.php' method=get>
> > > > <input type='text' name='name'>
> > > > <input type='submit' name='submit' value='sendit'>";
> > > > }
> > > > ?>
> > >
> > >
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