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Chapter 9: Handling HTML Forms with PHP
Try It Out Create an HTML Form
In this example, you create a Web form that contains a variety of form fields. Not only will you learn
how to create the various types of form fields, but you can see how the fields look and work in your
Web browser.
Save the following file as web_form.html in your document root folder, then open it in your browser
to see the form:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN”
“http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xml:lang=”en” lang=”en”>
<head>
<title>An HTML Form</title>
<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”common.css” />
</head>
<body>
<h1>An HTML Form</h1>
<form action=”” method=”get”>
<div style=”width: 25em;”>
<label for=”textField”>A text input field</label>
<input type=”text” name=”textField” id=”textField” value=”” />
<label for=”passwordField”>A password field</label>
<input type=”password” name=”passwordField” id=”passwordField”
value=”” />
<label for=”checkboxField”>A checkbox field</label>
<input type=”checkbox” name=”checkboxField” id=”checkboxField”
value=”yes” />
<label for=”radioButtonField1”>A radio button field</label>
<input type=”radio” name=”radioButtonField” id=”radioButtonField1”
value=”radio1” />
<label for=”radioButtonField2”>Another radio button</label>
<input type=”radio” name=”radioButtonField” id=”radioButtonField2”
value=”radio2” />
<label for=”submitButton”>A submit button</label>
<input type=”submit” name=”submitButton” id=”submitButton”
value=”Submit Form” />
<label for=”resetButton”>A reset button</label>
<input type=”reset” name=”resetButton” id=”resetButton”
value=”Reset Form” />
<label for=”fileSelectField”>A file select field</label>
<input type=”file” name=”fileSelectField” id=”fileSelectField”
value=”” />
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