HTML Form POST to PHP page

forms, html, php

Solution

Marc Towler is correct. You need to have the page with the extension of PHP for PHP code to be parsed in the first place. But I'd actually suggest you separate the pages of your form and your form processing. I'd suggest the following:

myform.php:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head></head>
<body>   
<div class="content">
    <form action="formprocessor.php" method="POST">
        <label>Name: </label>
        <input name="name" type="text" size="25" />

        <label>Course: </label>
        <input name="course" type="text" size="25" />

        <label>Book: </label>
        <input name="book" type="text" size="255" />

        <label>Price: </label>
        <input name="price" type="text" size="7" />

        <label>Email: </label>
        <input name="email" type="text" size="255" />

        <label>Phone #: </label>
        <input name="phone" type="text" size="12" />

        <input name="mySubmit" type="submit" value="Submit!" />
    </form>
</div>
</body>
</html>

formprocessor.php:

<?php
$name = $_POST["name"];
$course = $_POST["course"];
$book = $_POST["book"];
$price = $_POST["price"];
$email = $_POST["email"];
$phone = $_POST["phone"];

echo $name;
?>

Problem

ok...i created a form.html page. It asks the user to input into 6 text fields. The form POSTs to a separate page called myform.php. The myform.php page simply just returns the values the user entered. However, when I click submit I just get the myform.php source code popping up on the screen. ``` <div class="content"> <form action="myform.php" method="post"> Name: <input name="name" type="text" size="25" /> Course: <input name="course" type="text" size="25" /> Book: <input name="book" type="text" size="255" /> Price: <input name="price" type="text" size="7" /> Email: <input name="email" type="text" size="255" /> Phone #: <input name="phone" type="text" size="12" /> <input name="mySubmit" type="submit" value="submit" /> </form> </div> <?php $name = $_POST["name"]; $course = $_POST["course"]; $book = $_POST["book"]; $price = $_POST["price"]; $email = $_POST["email"]; $phone = $_POST["phone"]; ?> </head> <body> <?php echo $name; ?> </body> ```

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