What is PHP form Handling
PHP is a server-side programming language that is commonly used for web development. Form handling in PHP involves processing the data that is submitted through an HTML form and performing some action with that data, such as storing it in a database or sending an email.
To handle a form in PHP, you will need to create an HTML form that includes various form elements such as text fields, radio buttons, and submit buttons. When the user submits the form, the data is sent to a PHP script on the server. This script can then access the submitted data through the $_POST or $_GET superglobal arrays, depending on the method used to submit the form (POST or GET).
Here is an example of a simple HTML form that includes a text field and a submit button:
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<form action="process.php" method="post">
<label for="name">Name:</label><br>
<input type="text" id="name" name="name"><br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
The action attribute specifies the PHP script that will handle the form submission (process.php in this example). The method attribute specifies whether the form data should be sent via the POST or GET method.
To access the submitted data in the process.php script, you can use the $_POST or $_GET superglobal arrays, depending on the method used to submit the form. For example, to access the value of the name field in the form above, you would use $_POST['name'].
Once you have access to the submitted form data, you can use PHP to perform any action you need with the data, such as inserting it into a database or sending an email.
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