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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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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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PHP form processing

This tutorial will build on the previous PHP form tutorial, introduce some more concepts of PHP form processing, HTML forms and form validation, and instead of saving data to a text file, we will save data to a MySQL database. This tutorial will assume that you’ve read the first tutorial and that you have a basic [...]

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PHP form tutorial

This tutorial takes you step by step through web form processing using PHP. You will learn how to collect input from a web form, validate and save it. This tutorial assumes that you are familiar with at least very basic PHP and HTML.

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PHP Form Validation Script

It is very essential to have the input to your form validated before taking the form submission data for further processing. When there are many fields in the form, the PHP validation script becomes too complex. Moreover, since you are doing the same or similar validation for most of the forms that you make, just [...]

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