Re: newbie help, pressing the submit button returns nothing

At 08:24 04-04-03 -0500, you wrote:

On Friday 04 April 2003 07:43 am, Petre Agenbag wrote: Your problem is not with PHP but with basic HTML. Your <FORM> tag needs an action="www.somepage.com" in order to "do" something. With PHP, you can call the same page back onto itself. Hi Petre, Thanks for the reply, I have actually tried this too and all the output I get is "Welcome !" but the username that was entered into the form box should appear between the Welcome and !, Please take a look at the code below:

First page named: jobapp.html

-<HTML> <!-- Jobapp.html--> <BODY> <H1>Practice app</H1> <p>Fill in the name and echo it back to the user.</p> <FORM NAME='frmJobApp' METHOD=post action="jobapp_action.php"> Please enter your name: <INPUT NAME="applicant" TYPE="text"><br> <INPUT NAME="enter" TYPE="submit" VALUE="Enter"> </FORM> </BODY> </HTML> ---------------------------------------

Second page: named jobapp_action.php

Welcome <?php echo $applicant; ?>!

Unless your register_globals is set to on, you should be using <?PHP echo $_POST['applicant']; ?> instead Eugene ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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