I would quote get in method="get" and end the </form> for starters.
Keith Vance Vance Consulting LLC www.vanceconsulting.net (206) 355-2399 Try my open source PHP authentication system, Rampart by visiting http://rampart.sourceforge.net/. Commercial support is available at, http://www.vanceconsulting.net/support/. On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Chip Wiegand wrote: > 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 > . "$name"; > to the end of the echo statement. > Regards, > -- > Chip > > @ Edwin wrote this stuff back on Mon, 14 Oct 2002 11:55:28 +0900: > > > Hello, > > > > Just for the sake of the argument... > > > > On Monday, October 14, 2002 10:44 AM > > Chip Wiegand wrote: > > > > > Sascha Cunz wrote this stuff back on Mon, 14 Oct 2002 01:13:53 > > > +0200: > > > > > > > This beautifies it (even makes it a bit more secure), but one > > > > doesn't need it really; should have worked without these changes, > > > > too. (Of course, it's better to include these changes) > > > > > > > > Sascha > > > > > > No it shouldn't have worked the way you had it originally. The isset > > > statement HAS to have the same value as the submit buttom name or it > > > won't work at all. > > > > Yes it will. Try it. ;) > > > > Of course, I didn't mean to say that it will work the way you want it. > > I just wanted to say that it would still work even though the isset > > statement doen't have the same value with the submit button. Remember, > > isset() is basically a function to check if something is set or not... > > > > So, changing this > > > > > > > if (isset($_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'>"; > > > > > } > > > > > ?> > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
