PHP Form Handling

In this chapter, we ‘ll discuss here forms in php. With the help of PHP superglobal variables $_GET, $_POST and $_REQUEST we can collect data from the user and apply operations according to our requirement like save data in the database, Print, Send mail etc.

Example Simple HTML Form

Index.html




Name: 

Contact No.:

When the user submits the above form with proper data. Form data is sent with the HTTP POST method for processing to a PHP file named “welcome.php”.

welcome.php

Welcome 

Your Contact No. is:

Output

Welcome Raj
Your Contact No. is: 978654321