PHP HTML Forms

In this chapter you will learn:

1. What is a HTML form
2. Example - an example form
3. Form attributes
4. Example - Create an HTML Form

Description

An HTML form is a collection of HTML elements embedded within a page. By adding different types of elements, you can create different form fields, such as text fields, pull-down menus, checkboxes, and so on.

Example

All Web forms start with an opening <form> tag, and end with a closing </form> tag:

<form action="myscript.php" method="POST">  
     <!-- Contents of the form go here -->  
</form>  

Form attributes

There are two attributes within the opening <form> tag:

• action - tells the browser where to send the form data. This should either be an absolute URL or a relative URL.
• method - tells the browser how to send the form data. You can use two methods: GET is for sending small amounts of data and makes it easy for the user to resubmit the form, and POST can send much larger amounts of form data.

Example 2

<form action="someform.php" method="post">
  Name: <input type="text" name="Name" value="Jim" /><br />
  Password: <input type="password" name="Password" /><br />
  Age: <input type="text" name="Age" /><br />
  <input type="submit" />
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Next chapter...

What you will learn in the next chapter:

1. GET POST Superglobal Array
2. Example - Accept value from $_GET and $_REQUEST
3. Different between GET and POST

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PHP Form Textarea

PHP Form CheckBox

PHP Form Select

PHP Form RadioButton

PHP Form Submit

PHP Form Reset

PHP Form Push Button

PHP Form Image

PHP Form Hidden Field

PHP Split Form Across Pages

PHP Form Validation

PHP Form File Upload

PHP Form Demo

PHP Form Empty Fields

PHP Form Multi-Value Fields

PHP Redirect after a Form Submission