I was wondering if it would be possible to have a php file grab data from a html page with an input box, so that the user enters a word, and the php runs using that word in the script once the user hits enter. Any help would be appreciated.
Use a form with the method attribute set to ‘get’ or ‘post’ like this:
<form method=“post”>
<input type=“text” name=“test” value=“test” />
<button type=“submit”>submit</button>
</form>
Then on the same php page, use this to get the result, store it in a variable and output it:
<?php
$result = $_POST[‘test’];
echo $result;
?>
More information: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Methods/POST
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Forms/Your_first_HTML_form
Hope the formatting in this answer is ok, typed it out on my mobile phone.