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Dealing with Forms: A simple HTML form
<form action="action.php" method="post">
<p>Your name: <input type="text" name="name" /></p>
<p>Your age: <input type="text" name="age" /></p>
<p><input type="submit" /></p>
</form>Hi <?php echo htmlspecialchars($_POST['name']); ?>.
You are <?php echo (int)$_POST['age']; ?> years old- When the user fills in this form and hits the submit button, the action.php page is called.
- htmlspecialchars() makes sure any characters that are special in html are properly encoded so people can't inject HTML tags or Javascript into your page.
- For the age field, since we know it is a number, we can just convert it to an integer which will automatically get rid of any stray characters.
- The $_POST['name'] and $_POST['age'] variables are automatically set for you by PHP.