I have written some basic code so that a text area is displayed, and when the user inputs the text, clicks submit and it shows on the page in the method=''.
The code i have for the form is :
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>Fun Translator</h1>
<form method="post" action="query.php">
<textarea name="txtarea">
</textarea>
<input type="submit" />
</form>
The code on the page query.php is:
<html>
<body>
<?php
echo $_POST["txtarea"];
?>
</body>
</html>
By looking at google, other questions and such, this should work, but doesnt!
Solution:
Thanks to Marc Audet, I put in phpinfo and all that came up in a big table as it does, I took it out and it started working. Any explanations?
this code is perfectly fine. something else is going wrong.
some browsers like the ID...
add an ID like this:
<form method="post" action="query.php">
<textarea name="txtarea" id="txtarea">
</textarea>
<input type="submit" />
</form>
Best guess: Your server doesn't support PHP.
Check the source code as delivered to the browser. If the <?php bit shows up, then the server hasn't run the page through a PHP engine.
As far as I know you should be doing textarea in the quotes not txtarea, I am not really sure though, it might be beneficial to use an ID instead.
The textarea is not link to your form, you should add form="" in textarea like this:
<form method="post" action="query.php" name="myform">
<textarea name="txtarea" form="myform">
use echo htmlspecialchars($_POST['name']); to get value.