A Script to Acquire User Input

For now, we’ll keep our HTML separate from our PHP code. Listing 10.2 builds a simple HTML form.

Listing 10.2. A Simple HTML Form
 1: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
 2:     "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
 3:     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
 4: <html>
 5: <head>
 6: <title>Listing 10.2 A Simple HTML Form</title>
 7: </head>
 8: <body>
 9: <div>
10: <form action="listing10.3.php" method="get">
11: <p><input type="text" name="user"/></p>
12: <p>
13: <textarea name="address" rows="5" cols="40">
14: </textarea>
15: </p>
16: <p><input type="submit" value="hit it!" /></p>
17: </form>
18: </div>
19: </body>
20: </html>>

We define a form that contains a text field with the name "user" on line 11, a text area with ...

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