php woild not pass values

Valery1 · #1 December 15th, 2005, 04:59 AM

Hello,everybody!
I installed MAMP om my Mac ( running MACOSX 10.3.9),it works ok,but php 5.0 would not pass values.
In case of values to go from a form to php page for processing I am totally lost.IT IS a deadlock. Values entered do not stay.

Page 1.
<html>
<head>
<title>hello</title>

</head>
<body>
<center>

<form method = "post"
action = "process.php">
<h1> please enter your name:</h1>
<input type = "text"
name = "userName"
value = "">
<br>
<input type = "submit">

</center>
</body>
</html>

So here I input something and go to

Page2 (process.php)

<html>
<head>
<title>hello</title>

</head>
<body>
<center>
<h1>Greeting</h1>
<?
print "<h2>Hello,$userName!</h2>";
?>

</center>
</body>
</html>
The result is "Hello,!"
- and no nothing, the name entered in page 1 in gets kicked.
Maybe someone knows what is wrong.
Thanks.
Valery.

cmcdonal1 · #2 December 16th, 2005, 07:37 AM

your page doesn't know where to get $username from. use something like $userName = $_POST['userName'];

cmcdonal1 · #3 December 16th, 2005, 07:38 AM

FYI... the code above needs to be on the recieving page and declared before your print statement

Valery1 · #4 December 17th, 2005, 06:07 PM

Cmcdonal1, HURRAH. You are helpful. Because your tip helped. Now the pages happily communicate.
You know what? For me this is half of the puzzle.
The school book I have says as HTML page with a form in it goes to PHP page for processing , PHP automatically turns all elements of the form into variables.So in our case userName is turned into $userName. And the value entered in userName is supposed to stay in $userName.
AND IT DOES.If we test the above pages on PC. Everything works fine on my PC with W2K on it.
Whereas on Mac variable userName needs to be specified twice:PHP does it by default, then you enhance with $userName = $_POST['userName'];
And if you don't,it does not work.

**Captain Code** · #5 December 17th, 2005, 11:25 PM

The newer versions of PHP disabled the direct $varname access to POST variables for security reasons.