Now that you have the fundametals of the PHP scripting down, it's time to build on those basics and start truly progamming. I'll beging by writing HTML forms and showing how you can use PHP to handle the submitted values. Afterward, I'll cover conditionals and the remaining operators, array and one last language constuct.

Creating an HTML Form

An HTML form is created using the form tags and varias input types. The form tag look like.
Ex: form_tag.phps

The most imprtant ttribute of your form tag is the action, which page the form data will be sent. The secound attribute -method- has its own issues the choosing method.

Choosing Method

The two options - get and post reffer to the HTML method to use. In short, the get method submitted data to the reciving page as asereis of name-value.

Ex: www.articles.com/handle_form.php?name=Homer=gender=M

The benifit of get method, can be bookmarkand click back return page. But its less secure since data is visible. Post method is secure than get.

This HTML form will be use for several of the example.

Ex: form.phps | form.html