Newbie need help with printing form data

[skulpzy]

Hello

I am starting out learning this php. I have made a page called

into.html

which has this in it:

[php]
First Name:


[/php]

The PHP page ActionScript.php has this in it

[php]<?php
print “Your first name is $name”;
?>[/php]

however when i run the script all i am getting on the page is:

Your first name is

the name variable that i type in is not showing?

can anyone help?

thanks

[JimL]

First of all you should add this to the beginning of your php scripts while developing, this will give you all errors/warnings so you don’t miss any of those
[php]ini_set(‘error_reporting’, E_ALL);
ini_set(‘display_errors’, ‘1’);[/php]

into.html

1. you should wrap POST in quotes (method=“POST”)

ActionScript.php

1. I would change the name, ActionScript is a scripting language and it’s confusing calling it that ^^
2. you should not end php execution (?>) if you don’t have to.
3. you have not set the variable $name

Try this:
[php] <?php
if (!empty($_POST[‘name’])) {
echo htmlentities('Your first name is ’ . $_POST[‘name’], ENT_QUOTES, “UTF-8”);
} else {
echo ‘No name submitted’;
}[/php]

the htmlentities is to prevent xss attacks.

[skulpzy]

Thank you