HTML forms and PHP

[Chris Pook]

Hi,

As part of a group project I have been assigned to research how PHP can be
used with HTML web forms. What I need to know is, is it possible to
automatically fill in a web form using a PHP script? i.e. Fill in the text
boxes, and such with information passed in to the PHP script.

Please let me know any information you have on this, it will be greatly
appreciated...

Thanks

Chris Pook

[phpguy]

Re: HTML forms and PHP

Assuming you're talking about something editing previously submitted
data through a form (e.g., edit a profile), sure that's possible with
any scripting language I'd say. Basically it's

<?
$a = $someinfo; //say this came from a mysql query
?>
<form>
<input type="text" name="a" value="<?=$a?>" >
....
</form>

I'm sure you can Google for php form fill or something and find a more
expansive explanation ...


"Chris Pook" <cb00201087@blu eyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:<21Bqb.4$X W2.0@news-binary.blueyond er.co.uk>...[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> As part of a group project I have been assigned to research how PHP can be
> used with HTML web forms. What I need to know is, is it possible to
> automatically fill in a web form using a PHP script? i.e. Fill in the text
> boxes, and such with information passed in to the PHP script.
>
> Please let me know any information you have on this, it will be greatly
> appreciated...
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris Pook[/color]

[Jerry Gitomer]

Re: HTML forms and PHP

On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 23:41:49 +0000, Chris Pook wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> As part of a group project I have been assigned to research how PHP can be
> used with HTML web forms. What I need to know is, is it possible to
> automatically fill in a web form using a PHP script? i.e. Fill in the text
> boxes, and such with information passed in to the PHP script.
>
> Please let me know any information you have on this, it will be greatly
> appreciated...
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris Pook[/color]


Yes it is possible. You will find a number of books, either at the local
bookstore or at amazon.com, from which you can quickly learn how to
create web pages using PHP. My personal favorite is David Tansley's
Create Dynamic Web Pages Using PHP and MySql (naturally YMMV).

[Ken Robinson]

Re: HTML forms and PHP

"Chris Pook" <cb00201087@blu eyonder.co.uk> wrote in
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[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> As part of a group project I have been assigned to research how PHP
> can be used with HTML web forms. What I need to know is, is it
> possible to automatically fill in a web form using a PHP script? i.e.
> Fill in the text boxes, and such with information passed in to the PHP
> script.
>[/color]

That's one of the many powers of PHP...

For example:

< form .... >
< input type=text size=50 name=textbox1 value="<?php echo $valueforbox
?>">
.... other input and submit lines ...
< /form >

You can also call a php function to get the info out of file or database.

Ken Robinson
kenrbnsn (at) rbnsn (dot) com