I'm working through a book that many of you may have used, PHP and MySQL Web Development, by Welling and Thomson. Early in the book we create a small form to input values on a bogus auto parts web site, which then are echoed to the browser via a short PHP script. Everything works great except that my form field values do not get echoed. I'm running WinXP and Apache. The following are my HTML form text, followed by the PHP code that is supposed to process the form input. I would appreciate any input as to why the integers I enter in my form fields do not get echoed to the screen via the PHP variables.
Thank you for any advice you can offer.
Curtis
<html><head><title>Bob's Basic Order Form</title></head>
<form action="processorder.php" method="post">
<table border="0">
<tr bgcolor="#cccccc">
<td width="150">Item</td>
<td width="15">Quantity</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Tires</td>
<td align="center">
<input type="text" name="tireqty" size="3" maxlength="3">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Oil</td>
<td align="center">
<input type="text" name="oilqty" size="3" maxlength="3">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Spark Plugs</td>
<td align="center">
<input type="text" name="sparkqty" size="3" maxlength="3">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="center">
<input type="submit" value="Submit Order">
<input type="reset" value="Reset">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body></html>
This is my PHP processing script:
<html><head><title>Bob's Auto Parts - Order Results</title></head>
<body>
<h1>Bob's Auto Parts</h1>
<h2>Order Results</h2>
<?
echo "<p>Order processed at";
echo "<br />";
echo date("g:i a, F jS, Y");
echo "<br /><br />";
echo "<p>Your order is as follows:";
echo "<br />";
echo $tireqty." tires<br />";
echo $oilqty." quarts of oil<br />";
echo $sparkqty." spark plugs</p>";
?>
</body></html>
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