Build your form in HTML and specify your PHP file in the action of the document. HTML does the form stuff, PHP the processing (although you can - of course - use HTML inside PHP via print() or echo(), too)
Its done exactly the same as when you put it in an HTML file. There are 2 ways you can do it: <html> <?php // php stuff ?> </html> Or you can do it like this: <?php echo "<html>"; // php stuff echo "</html>"; ?>
You can't use PHP in an HTML document, but you can use HTML in PHP script.
Via AJAX. Another simpler way would be to use form elements and submit them via html and let PHP process the data. Processed data can be output in html form via echo or print statements in php.
.htm, .html or .php
change the extention of the .HTML file to .php and then open the file that was previously HTML and put <?php include ("path/to/second/php/file.php"); ?> so for example if i have page1.HTML and page2.php i rename page1.HTML to page1.php and then put <?php include ("page2.php"); ?> where i want page2 to appear. Note: Any HTML file can be renamed to have a .php extention even if it doesnt contain any PHP.
There is no such thing as a PHP form. Forms are written in HTML or other client side scripting languages.
The standard way to open a block of PHP (escaping it from HTML) is with the
As it is, PHP does not have a preprocessor; it is a preprocessor that processes form variables and other environmental variables and prints HTML or general text.
A file: practise.html <html> <body> <form method="post" action="another.php" enctype="multipart/form-data"> <input type="text" name="field1" id="field1" /> <input type="submit" name="submit" /> </form> </body> </html> File: another.php <html> <body> <?php $text = $_POST['field1']; ?> <form> <input type="text" name="textfield1" id="txtfield" value="<?php echo $text; ?>" /> </form> </body> </html>
PHP is a server side language, so cannot run within the browser as HTML does. You can however make a call to the PHP page within your HTML (using a form button or anchor link for example), and using Ajax (javascript) make the HTML show the response of the PHP program. The user will not know that the server side PHP program has been executed, as when using Ajax the browser does not load a new page.
In structure <?php ?> <html> </html> in application - one is static and another is dynamic. this much ......
To do programming in PHP, there is often the dilemma of whether or not to place the code within the HTML. Depending on the writer's coding experience it is usually better to place the PHP within the HTML.