HTML form->PHP variable. How?

[Windchill]

Yup, I'm hopeless. Maybe someone knows a good PHP tutorial for me :D . Can someone help me(again :P )

[pyro]

I would recommend using the POST method on your form, and then you are able to reference them like this: $_POST["fieldname"] where fieldname is the name of your formfield. If you choose to use GET, you reference them like this: $_GET["fieldname"]

[Windchill]

so I would do this:

$whatever = $_POST("text_input");

Would I have this in the HTML or in the form target file?

[pyro]

The form target file, and they need to be brackets [] rather than parenthesis ()

[Windchill]

oops... OK thanks.

[pyro]

You also asked for PHP resources... you may be interested in the following sites:

http://www.php.net (my personal favorite)
http://www.phpbuilder.com/
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/programming/php/index.html
http://php.resourceindex.com/
http://www.zend.com/
more links can be found at http://www.php.net/links.php

Here's a good list of PHP editors:
http://phpeditors.dancinghippo.com/