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PHP Form Action Demo (See it in action at http://freegreentea.info/form/)
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| <?php | |
| if(isset($_POST['submit'])) { | |
| echo "<pre>"; | |
| // Everything that was entered into the form lives in an associative array called $_POST | |
| // Guess what the array is called if you used GET as your form action? | |
| print_r($_POST); | |
| // You can create a new variable by stringing together strings and variables. | |
| $new_url = "http://" . $_POST['something_unique'] . "/more_strings"; | |
| print($new_url); | |
| // You can also continue to append things to that URL, with ".=" | |
| if(isset($_POST['the_pulldown'])) { | |
| $new_url .= "&pulldown=" . $_POST['the_pulldown']; | |
| print("<br />New new URL: " . $new_url); | |
| } | |
| // So with a few "if" statements, you can build up a URL that starts with the things you know you need: | |
| $api_call = "https://www.documentcloud.org/api/search.json?q=group:dhpraxis"; | |
| // and adds the search criteria your user submitted. | |
| //Once you know your URL, you can use cURL or guzzler to pull the JSON that DocumentCloud provides | |
| //You'll pull the JSON into an associative array and use that to populate a page of content. | |
| echo "</pre>"; | |
| } else { | |
| phpinfo(); | |
| //If the user didn't come here by form submit, you want to show ... something else! | |
| // either the search form or a link back to the search form. | |
| } | |
| ?> |
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| <form action="action.php" method="POST" name="sample"> | |
| <input type="text" name="something_unique" value="say anything"> | |
| <select id="the_pulldown" name="the_pulldown" class="input-large"> | |
| <option>Pick this</option> | |
| <option>Or that</option> | |
| </select> | |
| <input type="submit" value="push me" name="submit"> | |
| </form> |
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| <!DOCTYPE html> | |
| <html lang="en"> | |
| <head> | |
| <meta charset="utf-8"> | |
| <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"> | |
| <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> | |
| <title>Simple Form Demo</title> | |
| <!-- Bootstrap --><!-- Latest compiled and minified CSS --> | |
| <link rel="stylesheet" href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.1.1/css/bootstrap.min.css"> | |
| <!-- Optional theme --> | |
| <link rel="stylesheet" href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.1.1/css/bootstrap-theme.min.css"> | |
| <style type="text/css"> | |
| body { | |
| background: #EEE; | |
| } | |
| </style> | |
| </head> | |
| <body> | |
| <div class="container"> | |
| <?php include 'form.html'; ?> | |
| </div><!-- /container --> | |
| </body> | |
| </html> |
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