Khanny — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 00:55:04 +0000

wow, alot of responses

I think 'll use method three

cheers again

Mark Hensler — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:25:12 +0000

You can embed single deminsional arrays within double quoted strings. Simply ommit the single quotes within the array's key.

echo "Text Box Data: $_POST[textbox]";

And for m3rajk's method 1, you may want to consider using refereces. They'll save memory, and I believe are created faster than an assignment opperation (as you'd be copying a memory address, rather than the contents of the address).

m3rajk — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 15:28:06 +0000

it's this line: echo "Text Box Data: $_POST['textbox']";

the issue is that you can't put an array directly in. there's three ways around this.
1: always assign array values to something else before sticking them in
2: concatinate (as shown above)
3: use {}

i used to always use the first. then i felt it might be better to just concatinate. at that point i pulled a lot out of some pages making the code look a lot better, but then someone put me onto the third. now i've sdecided the best thing is 2 or 3 dependingon the situation. i'll let you decide which is better and what to do on your own, because i'm thuroughly convinced it's primarily a personal preference considering the argument i saw at a diff board about how to fix a problem someone had based on this.

the best thing i can do is give you an example of each of the ways not already exampled for you to tthen decide which you like best.

however, i'm going to take the liberty of combining both your pages into one.

method 1:

<?php
$textdata=$_POST['textbox'];
$page=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];

if (isset($_POST['button'])){
    echo \"Button Hit\"; 
    echo \"<br>Text Box Data: $textdata\";
}else{ 
    echo <<<END
<form method=\"post\" action=\"$page\">
<input type=\"text\" name=\"textbox\" size=\"20\">
<input type=\"submit\" name=\"button\" value=\"Submit\">
</form>
END;
}
?>

method 2: see the other druagod's post
method 3:

<?php
if (isset($_POST['button'])){
    echo \"Button Hit\"; 
    echo \"<br>Text Box Data: {$_POST['textbox']}\";
}else{ 
    echo <<<END
<form method=\"post\" action=\"{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}\">
<input type=\"text\" name=\"textbox\" size=\"20\">
<input type=\"submit\" name=\"button\" value=\"Submit\">
</form>
END;
}
?>

fyi: using $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] returns the page you have, therefore you can now rename the page without ever braking the form.

druagord — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 13:14:52 +0000

try it like this i took the habit of not putting arrays in the string directly but use the concatenation operator

Quote:
<?
if (isset($_POST['button']))
{
echo "Button Hit";
echo "Text Box Data:".$_POST['textbox'];
}
else
{ echo "Button Not Hit"; }
?>