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COMPUTER SOFTWARE APPLICATION - CITS
TASK 3: Importing user input and accessing user input
I Create an HTML Form
1 Open the text editor
2 Write the following codes
<html
<head>
<title>PHP User Input</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Enter your name:</h2>
<form action=”process.php” method=”get”>
<input type=”text” name=”name” placeholder=”Enter your name”>
<button type=”submit”>Submit</button>
</form>
</body>
</html>
3 Save the program in C:\Apache24\htdocs in a folder as index.html
II Create a PHP script that acquires user input
1 Open the text editor
2 Write the following codes
<html>
<body>
<?php
if ($_SERVER[“REQUEST_METHOD”] == “GET”)
{
// Check if the name field is set and not empty
if (isset($_GET[“name”]) && !empty($_GET[“name”]))
{
$name = $_GET[“name”];
// Display a greeting message
echo “Hello, $name! Welcome!”;
}
else
{
// If name field is empty, display an error message
echo “Please enter your name!”;
}
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CITS : IT & ITES - Computer Software Application - Exercise 56
