Im new... Help..

[wookie224]

Im new at PHP... I am in a crunch. I need help with two things...

1) How do I get the value of some combo boxes and a text box and do some math in PHP???

2) What would be the easiest way to separate the month,day,year into three separate variables I can use later on in the webpage for being part of a link..

I appreciate all the help.

[The Hobo]

1) Like so:

echo $_POST['name_of_combobox_here'];

What do you mean do math in php? +, -, *, / all work fine for me...

2) Uh...

echo date('m', $date); //month
echo date('d', $date); //day
echo date ('Y', $date); //year

The most valuable resource as a PHP programmer is http://www.php.net/

Read it, know it, and refer to it. It has 90% of the answers in the documentation.

[ferke]

The values of input fields on a form in the variable named input field names:

<input type="text" name="trythis" value=<? print $trythis; ?>>

The value of this text is in the variable $trythis;)

[The Hobo]

Originally posted by ferke
The values of input fields on a form in the variable named input field names:

<input type="text" name="trythis" value=<? print $trythis; ?>>

The value of this text is in the variable $trythis;)

That is poor and deprecated coding and should not be used. $_POST['trythis']; should be used instead.

The option is even turned off by default in all recent versions of PHP.