Custom name and value for _POST

john6 · 10-10-2012, 07:50 AM

If I have a form:
1) How can I choose what value goes in which index of the _POST array on the next screen?
2) How to set my own variables? (incase I need to tell the next screen what I want it to do with the values it gets)

I.e.
form:
Username: ____________
Password: ____________

** Then on the next page **

_POST[0]="MY OWN CUSTOM VARIABLE HERE?" (set in the previous form)
_POST[1]="MY OWN CUSTOM VARIABLE HERE?" (set in the previous form)
_POST[2]=(username)
_POST[3]=(password)

stevenmw · 10-10-2012, 09:36 AM

I'm not sure I fully understand.

You want to have a form and then have the PHP take in the information in each field of the form and do something with the info? Am I close?

To submit and collect info you would first make a form.

Code:

<form action="submit.php">
<input type="text" name="user">
<input type="password" name="pass">
<input type="submit" value="submit">
</form>

Then you use PHP to collect the info, and do something with it.

PHP Code:


			
$username = $_POST['user'];
$password = $_POST['pass'];

echo $username;
echo $password;

Am I way off from what you want?

Of course there is a lot more too this. You'd want to check if the form actually submitted and several other things.