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Creating a registration form using PHP

Creating a membership based site seems like a daunting task at first. If you ever wanted to do this by yourself, then just gave up when you started to think how you are going to put it together using your PHP skills, then this article is for you. We are going to walk you through [...]

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Passing PHP form variables from one page to other

This is in continuation of the PHP multi-page order form article. The first paged explained how to pass the variables between pages using sessions. This page shows you how to accomplish the same using hidden fields.

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Creating a multi-page order form using PHP

Forms are part of virtually any web application today. They are the main method to receive input from people using the application. They range in size from one-field opt-in forms where you only enter your email address, to very long forms with tens or even hundreds of fields. To make long forms user-friendlier, it is [...]

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How to submit a form using PHP

There are situations when you want to send data using POST to a URL, either local or remote. Why would you want to do this? Probably you want to submit data to an opt-in form, but without taking a valuable visitor away from your site. Or maybe you want to send data to several applications [...]

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Using PHP_SELF in the action field of a form

In this article shows the usage of PHP_SELF variable and how to avoid PHP_SELF exploits. What is PHP_SELF variable? PHP_SELF is a variable that returns the current script being executed. This variable returns the name and path of the current file (from the root folder). You can use this variable in the action field of [...]

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Handling select box (drop-down list) in a PHP form

This tutorial will show you how to add select boxes and multi-select boxes to a form, how to retrieve the input data from them, how to validate the data, and how to take different actions depending on the input. Select box Let’s look at a new input: a “select” box, also known as a “drop-down” [...]

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Handling checkbox in a PHP form processor

This tutorial will introduce HTML check boxes and how to deal with them in PHP. Single check box Let’s create a simple form with a single check box.

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Using the POST method in a PHP form

This tutorial will cover how PHP handles form data posted via the POST method. Introduction to the form POST data is submitted by a form and “posted” to the web server as form data. POST data is encoded the same way as GET data, but isn’t typically visible to the user in standard browsers. Most [...]

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Using the GET method in a PHP form

This tutorial will cover how PHP handles form data posted via the ‘GET’ method. Introduction to the query string GET data comes from the URL itself, and will typically follow the name of the script file in the URL. The start of GET data is indicated with a question mark (?). The name of the [...]

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