You need to put method="POST" in your form tag. Otherwise it just
defaults to $_GET.
On Aug 8, 8:24 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, i'm using the search form to get search results from a PHP file.
> What should i write in the PHP file in order to get the keyword. I
> assumed it is using POST method but it get nothing. my
> $_POST['keyword']variable returns nothing.
>
> HTML:
>
> <form id="searchForm" class="dialog" action="search.php">
> <fieldset>
> <h1>Search Application</h1>
> <a class="button leftButton" type="cancel">Cancel</a>
> <a class="button blueButton" type="submit">Search</a>
>
> <input type="text" placeHolder="Enter Keywords"
> name="keyword"/>
> </fieldset>
> </form>
>
> PHP:
>
> <?
>
> $search = $_POST['keyword'];
>
> $result = mysql_query("some kind of query");
>
> ?>
> <ul title="Results">
> <li><? echo $search?></li>
> <?
> while ($a = mysql_fetch_array($result))
> {
> echo '<li>'.$a['name'].'</li>';}
>
> ?>
> </ul>
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