Re[2]: [PHP] newbie help, pressing the submit button returns nothing

Friday, April 4, 2003, 6:47:38 PM, you wrote: DM> On Friday 04 April 2003 08:54 am, Eugene Mah wrote: >> 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 $_POST['applicant']; ?> DM> This isn't working either : - ( DM> What in the world could be wrong? DM> -- DM> David M. DM> Edification Web Solutions DM> http://www.edificationweb.com Hello, Try to insert into jobapp_action.php: <? If (isset($submit) { echo $_POST['applicant']; } ?>