Hour 10. Working with Forms

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

  • How to get and use server variables

  • How to access information from form fields

  • How to work with form elements that allow multiple selections

  • How to create a single document that contains both an HTML form and the PHP code that handles its submission

  • How to save state with hidden fields

  • How to redirect the user to a new page

  • How to build HTML forms that upload files and how to write the PHP code to handle them

Until now, all the examples in this book have been missing a crucial dimension. You can set variables and arrays, create and call functions, and work with objects. All this work is meaningless if users can’t reach into a language’s environment to offer it information. In this hour, you ...

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