PHP echo not posting

Question

It's only a simple file but the PHP echo is not showing up.

This is the code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<body>

Welcome <?php echo $_GET['firstname']; ?><br>
Your new Account is: <?php echo $_GET['accountname']; ?>

<h4>Please clarify that the information below is correct</h4>

Account Name: <?php echo $_GET['accountname']; ?>
Contact Name: <?php echo $_GET['firstname']; ?> <?php echo $_GET["lastname"]; ?>
Address: <?php echo $_GET['address']; ?> <?php echo $_GET["street"]; ?> <?php echo $_GET["direction"]; ?> <?php echo $_GET["state"]; ?> <?php echo $_GET["zip"]; ?> <?php echo $_GET["pobox"]; ?>

</body>
</html>

And all it displays is "Welcome_______" etc. It shows all the words but not the echo outputs even when there are inputs in the form. It's like they are all being recognized as blanks.

having those inputs in the form is pointless if the form hasn't been submitted yet. `$_GET` works off the url, so unless you ran this script with `http://example.com?firstname=John&accountname=foo&etc..` you won't get anything. — Marc B, Jul 14 '15 at 18:43
You should turn warnings on. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5438060/showing-all-errors-and-warnings It's probably returning `Notice: Undefined index: firstname` and so on. — Karl, Jul 14 '15 at 18:44
i think you form work with the POST, to check it change your $_GET['firstname'] to $_POST['firstname'] — volkinc, Jul 14 '15 at 22:56

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

You need two files in order to better understand it.

index.html Set of data from this file will be sent for processing.

<form action="account.php" method="GET">
  <input name="firstname" type="text" placeholder="First name here...">
  <input name="lastname" type="text" placeholder="Last name here...">
  <input type="submit" value="Process data">
</form>

account.php - Here will be data processed

<?php 

  if(isset($_GET['firstname']) && isset($_GET['lastname')){
    //if all data are set, say hello
    echo "Welcome ".$firstname." ".$lastname.",";
  }else{
    //if first name or last name is not set, redirect to form
    header('Location: index.html');
    exit;
  }
 ?>

You are sending data from simple HTML form to PHP script by GET. Difference between GET and POST method is that, GET is posted in URL: http://www.example.com/index.php?firstname=kamil and POST data are sent inside of request body (url is not changed). Difference is better described in this thread: What is the difference between POST and GET?

score -1 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 16 '15 at 08:41

-1

It will work when:

http://your_url.com?firstname=xyz&accountname=abc

$_GET['firstname'],$_GET['accountname']

Or use:

var_dump($_GET);

edited Jul 16 '15 at 08:41

Legionar

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answered Jul 14 '15 at 18:49

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