Introduction to PHP: Building the Form

Posted on 2014-08-14

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The viewer will learn how to create a basic form using some HTML5 and PHP for later processing.

Video Steps

1. Set up your basic HTML file. Open your form tag and set the method and action attributes.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
	<head>
		<title>My first php script</title>
	</head>
	<body>
		<form method="post" action="process.php">

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2. Set up your first few inputs one for the name and the gender.

A simple set of radio buttons will do here.

<label>Name: <input type="name" name="fullname" placeholder="Enter your name here."></label>
<label>Gender: <input type="radio" name="gender" value="M" checked>Male  <input type="radio" name="gender" value="F">Female</label>

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3. Label the date of birth field, setup a few select boxes that will use PHP to loop through respectively to get the month, day and year.

<label>Birthday: <select name="month">
				<?php for($m=1; $m<=12; $m++){
							echo "<option value=".$m.">".$m."</option>";
				} ?>
				</select>/
				<select name="day">
				<?php for($d=1; $d<=31; $d++){
							echo "<option value=".$d.">".$d."</option>";
				} ?>
				</select>/
				<select name="year">
				<?php for($y=1880; $y<=2014; $y++){
							echo "<option value=".$y.">".$y."</option>";
				} ?></select>
			</label>

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4. Set up a field for the email address.

<label>E-mail: <input type="email" name="emailaddy" placeholder="Enter your best email address."></label>

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5. Label the randomized ID # as ID #. Set the variable for this ID number and put it into a hidden field.

<label>My ID #: <?php $nyid=rand(0,199999); echo $myid; ?>
			<input type="hidden" value="<?php echo $myid; ?>"></label>"][/step]
[step="6" title="Set your submit button and close out the form and page.

			<label><input type="submit" name="saveme" value="Send Profile"></label>
		</form>
	</body>
</html>

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Introduction to PHP: Building the Form

Video Steps

1. Set up your basic HTML file. Open your form tag and set the method and action attributes.

2. Set up your first few inputs one for the name and the gender.

3. Label the date of birth field, setup a few select boxes that will use PHP to loop through respectively to get the month, day and year.

4. Set up a field for the email address.

5. Label the randomized ID # as ID #. Set the variable for this ID number and put it into a hidden field.

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