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From: Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de>
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Subject: Re: Beginner question on using PHP and POST
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 09:27:38 +0200
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Dan Wissme:

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

Because you POST things you need $_POST[].


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