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Re: Beginner question on using PHP and POST

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Dan Wissme <wissme@free.fr> writes:

> I write an HTML page foods.html containing a form like :
>
> <form method="post" action="process.php">
>     <p><input type="text" name="food" id="food"></p>
>     <input type="submit" value="OK">
> </form>
>
>
> The purpose is to get from user the name of the food and open a web
> page already existing about that food. The user may ask for 'meat' for
> example. I will then open the web page meat.html
>
> So I wrote a file "process.php" like that one :
>
> <?php
> $food=htmlspecialchars($_GET["food"]);
> <--------- what then ?
> ?>

You don't need htmlspecialchars, but you should sanitise the input.  For
example, you could check that $_POST['food'] (or $_REQUEST['food'])
contains nothing but lowercase letters.

> I tried echo, readfile, etc but got nothing...

You could use PHP's header function like this:

  header("Location: $food.html");
  exit();

This cases the HTTP response to include a redirection header.  A
confirming browser will then request the HTML document in question.

-- 
Ben.

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Beginner question on using PHP and POST Dan Wissme <wissme@free.fr> - 2019-08-24 18:14 +0200
  Re: Beginner question on using PHP and POST "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-08-24 18:47 +0200
    Re: Beginner question on using PHP and POST "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-08-24 18:53 +0200
  Re: Beginner question on using PHP and POST Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2019-08-24 12:35 -0600
    Re: Beginner question on using PHP and POST Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2019-08-24 13:04 -0600
  Re: Beginner question on using PHP and POST Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2019-08-24 23:59 +0200
  Re: Beginner question on using PHP and POST Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-08-25 01:31 +0100
  Re: Beginner question on using PHP and POST Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2019-08-26 09:27 +0200

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