Topic 5A

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Help! I am having a confused moment.

If the $firstname variable is created based on the name attribute of a form field, why are ‘fname’ and ‘lname’ needed in the echo statement in the hiddenfields.php file? Are fname and lname not going to be empty, as they do not exist in the form.php file, or are $firstname and $lastname supposed to put the contents of name=’firstname’ and name=’lastname’ into these name fields?

My code is as it is listed in the manual, but when I complete the form, the $fname and $lname variables are not printed to the screen. The book categories are though.

When I add print_r($_POST) to the code of the respective hiddenfields files, I get the following outputs:

Array([firstname]=>Wayne[lastname]=>Rothman[age]=>38)


Array([choice]=>Array([0]=>Non-Fiction) [fname]=>[lname]=>

What am I missing here?

In the form.php the variables is $firstname and $lastname, but look in the hiddenfields.php, there the values you enter in the form.php are now assign to new variable names $fname and $lname on the new form.

I think it is the best to use one variable name for the same field for in all your forms, but this exercise show us that it is possible to use other names.

Use the $_POST['xx'] for all your variables in both the hidden...php files with the correct names and it will work.

Miekie thanks for the help.

I agree with keeping the same variable across the various pages. It keeps things much simpler.

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Also done.

Done. Slightly confused at first though.

Murphy's Technology Law 7
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also done - I also changed the variables to firstname, lastname

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