Re: Form Processing

Yeah, that was the general idea of what I was looking for. The only way I've done it before was in Perl, in which case you split the name:value pairs from stdin. I want the email to just list all of the fields, so I don't have to. But I can handle that part of it. Thanks for leading me in the right direction. Joe Dean Hall wrote: > 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.