Just a little PHP help for a begainer

cwdlmdd · - Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 32 Location: st peters mo

I have two programs running here one being html and it is refering to the php. I aam not having any problems with the html but I cannot get the php to work like I want it to. What I am trying to do here is to take the number from the html and pick out the month that coensides with the number but it will not work for me. I have eather miss read something or just not read far enough in the book to be doing what I am wanting it to do. Can someone help me with figureing this out?

<html>
<title>Months</title>
<body>
<form action="monthnew.php" method="post">
<p> Please enter an number between 1 and 12
<input type="text" size=3 name="$num" ></p>
<input type="submit" name="Enter" />

</body>
</html>

<?php

$monthName = array(1=>"January", "February", "March", "April",
"May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November",
"December");
print("Month, $num is $monthName[$num]<br>\n");
?>

TRUSTAbyss · - Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 3752 Location: USA, GA

When adding a HTML Form , you don't need to
add the $ sign in front on num like $num , just
use num as the name and everything should work

eznetlinks · - Joined: 27 Sep 2003 Posts: 144

This worked for me after setting register_globals=on in C:\WINDOWS\php.ini .

<html>
<title>Months</title>
<body>
<form action="monthnew.php" method="post">
<p> Please enter an number between 1 and 12
<input type="text" size=3 name="num" ></p>
<input type="submit" name="Enter" />

</body>
</html>

<?php
$monthName = array("None", "January", "February", "March", "April",
"May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November",
"December");
print("Month, $num is $monthName[$num]<br>\n");
?>

iNaNimAtE · Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 12:09 am Post subject:

Try to use the new naming convention ($_POST['num']) so you can keep globals off; or is there something else besides the form that needs globals?
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cwdlmdd · - Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 32 Location: st peters mo

Thanks for the help!! I guess I wasn't as far off as I thought I was. Once I made the change in the php.ini globle setting it seemed to work. Now I will try changing it and using the $_POST and see if I can get that to work!!