Re: Using the GET Method

shouldn't it just be: echo($author); and not: echo $author; :: Bobo Wieland :: www.elstudion.com/bobo/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wade" <wade@wadesmart.com> To: <php-windows@lists.php.net> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 6:42 AM Subject: [PHP-WIN] Using the GET Method > 01112003 2132 CST > > Im working on learning PHP4 by reading Beginning PHP 4, Wrox Press. > Chapter 3, page 76. > Im working with a form field sending data via the GET method. > On the first page, you fill in a text field and hit send. > That data is sent via the URL. > I can see it in the URL, on the next page. > The page will not show the data in the variable spot. > > The Code: > > Page One > <html><head><title></title></head> > <body> > <form method=get action="text.php> > Who is your favorite author? > <input name="author" type="text"> > <br> > <input type=submit> > </form> > </body></html> > > Page Two - text.php > <html><head><title></title></head> > <body> > Your favorite author is: > <?php > echo $author; > ?> > </body></html> > > Now, I know PHP is case sensitive and I have been sure to check the > $variable in the code. I have worked through some other pages in this > book and I downloaded the documentation from the wrox website. Their > code is exactly as the book and my own. > > Im stumbed. Anybody read this book? Can anybody see something wrong? > > Wade > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >