What is the best free php form-handler program/script for beginners?

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1. tedjn

   On 2006-07-30 12:34:08

   
   
   Yes, I agree with Josh in that it is probably easier to learn how to handle forms yourself than use any form handling PHP system. In fact, there isn't much to be gained from the latter. A quick tutorial in form handling with PHP is follows: In your

   tag, you will have the method attribute. If that is set to post, you will use $_POST. If it is set to get, you will use $_GET. In my examples, I will use $_REQUEST, which is valid code and can be used regardless of whether the form method is post or get, but replace $_REQUEST with the specific one if you want more secure code. Now, your form fields should have a name attribute. Upon submission, to find out what the user submitted, you only need to use: $_REQUEST['form_field_name'] as a variable. You can find out, just so you can see, that $_REQUEST is an array of all the form fields submitted. You can view this array if you use the PHP code var_dump($_REQUEST); or print_r($_REQUEST); Now, for most form fields, it is the value attribute that is submitted. Disabled form fields are, of course, excluded. There are special exceptions for with the multiple attribute as well as checkboxes and image submit buttons, but those can be easily searched for on Google as PHP has an exceptional support base. If you need any more help or clarification, feel free to zap me a message.

   Josh

   On 2006-07-30 10:51:28

   
   

   write it yourself.. it's easy... get a book and learn the langauge in two days.. it is as easy as html... this way you can do whatever you wanna do with the langauge without any restrictions

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