Re: Form Processing

On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 joe@jWebMedia.com wrote: > I am trying to get a php script to read the stdin from a form and print > a line for each value there. I need to check if someone is going to pay > with a credit card. If so, I need to display them a different page. In > addition, the script needs to send off an email regardless. I have tried > to read the stdin like: > $fp = fopen("php://stdin","r"); > $contents = fread($fp, 500000); <-- This number is just for testing > now... > > if I echo $contents - it says it's an array - so I try echo > $contents[0]; and get nothing. I've also tried $contents = > parse_url($QUERY_STRING); and $REQUEST_URI as I saw in the users > additions to the manual and on the list archives. What am I doing wrong? > Or am I way off on my approach to this? Thanks, > > Joe Yes, you're way off. (Sorry so blunt.) Well, let me rephrase that. You are way off if you're talking about an HTML form with a GET or POST method. If you aren't talking about this, I have no idea what the hell you're talking about. In any case, on your form, I guess you know that it should have an action like this: <form method="POST" action="form_handler.php"> Then form_handler.php is the file that handles the form submission. Also, each input tag should have a name. <input type="text" name="address"> So now in "form_handler.php" or whatever you call it can access the value of the "address" input field like this: $HTTP_POST_VARS[address] (or if you the "register globals" option on, just '$address') So if the user typed "123 Main St. #6" in the text field whose name is "address", you could say: echo $HTTP_POST_VARS[address]; and you'd see "123 Main St. #6". Simple, huh? Well, if you are searching for a solution to some highly advanced problem, my apologies, and I will go put my dunce cap on now. If this is what you were looking for, wonderful! Dean.