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Anyway, read http://www.php.net/release_4_2_0.php to see what you're
doing wrong (especially, read the part about External variables)
Sander
On 2002.06.01 17:33 Wei Wang wrote:
> I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this naive question.
>
> I got a simple form addform.html and add.php look like the following.
> But everytime I got empty value from firstname and lastname. It seems
> like
> the input value in the html page was not passed on to the php variable
> $firstname in add.php. Anyone give me a hand on this naive question?
>
> Great thanks.
>
>
> Wei
>
>
> addform.html
>
> <html>
> <body>
> <form action="add.php" method="post">
> First Name : <input type="text" name="firstname" size="40" length="40"
> value=""><BR>
> Surname : <input type="text" name="surname" size="40" length="40"
> value=""><BR>
> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
> <input type="reset" name="reset" value="Clear It">
> </form>
> </body>
> </html>
>
>
> add.php
>
> <html>
> <body>
> <?php
> $db = pg_connect("dbname=friends");
> $query = "INSERT INTO friends (id, firstname, surname) values
> (nextval('friends_id_seq'), '$firstname', '$surname')";
> $result = pg_exec($db, $query);
> if (!$result) {
> printf ("ERROR");
> $errormessage = pg_errormessage($db);
> echo $errormessage;
> exit;
> }
> printf ("These values were inserted into the database - %s %s",
> $firstname, $surname);
> pg_close();
> ?>
> </body>
> </html>
>
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