Try:
<?
print "Hello ".$_POST["name"];
?>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gajo Csaba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 4:10 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP-DB] Newbie question
>
>
> Hi!
> I'm new to PHP, so this may be an easy question. I tried to make a
> simple form-page, where the user enters his name, and on the
> following
> page it says "Hello $name". What happens is that on the
> second page it
> says soemthing like "unknown identifier $name".
>
> I'm using Apache 2 so that may be causing the problem, cause
> this is a
> clear textbook example:
>
> ---------------------- first.php ----------------------
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>First</title>
> </head>
> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#cbda74"
> vlink="#808040"
> alink="#808040">
> <form action="second.php" method="post">
> <b>Whats your name?</b>
> <input type="text" name="name" size="20" maxlength="20"
> value=""><br>
> <input type="submit" value="go!">
> </form>
> </body>
>
> --------------- second.php --------
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>Second</title>
> </head>
> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#cbda74"
> vlink="#808040"
> alink="#808040">
> <?
> print "Hello $name!";
> ?>
> </body>
> </html>
>
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