Re: Passing variables from HTML to PHP

if the checkbox is checked then you'll get the value in the php script. If globals are turned on then echo $foo; will work, otherwise you have to use something like: echo $_POST['foo']; its a good idea to write your scripts without dependency on globals being turned on, its a security risk for it to be on. -- -------------------------------------------------------------->> Jasper Howard :: Database Administration Velocity7 1.530.470.9292 http://www.Velocity7.com/ <<-------------------------------------------------------------- "Philip Thompson" <prthomp@uark.edu> wrote in message news:2A6CFA3D-FB8A-11D8-A3DD-000393C795C4@uark.edu... > Hi all. > > This might be a simple answer, but I'm still not sure what the case is. > Okay, so I have a <form> in my html that has some <input>s. These each > have a name and a value attribute to them, of course. > > I cannot seem to access the name/value pair in my php without using the > $_POST method/variable names. Are you able to without $_POST? Example: > > ------------------- > html: > <input type="checkbox" name="foo" value="bar"> > > php: > do this: > echo "foo = " . $foo; // foo = bar > > or this: > echo "foo = " . $_POST["foo"]; // foo = bar > ------------------- > > So, should both of those php examples work the same? > > Thanks! > ~Philip