How to get text box value to variable in php and post it with button

Question

i have a code

  <form action="index.php" method="post">  
    <input type="text" name="jam" />
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Translate" />
    </form>



<?php
$conn = mysql_connect ("localhost", "root","")  or die (mysql_error());
mysql_set_charset('utf8',$conn);
mysql_select_db ("movedb");


$jam = $_POST['jam'];


$sql = mysql_query("select * from WORD where ENGLISH like '$jam%' Limit 15");


while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)){
    echo ' '.$row['ENGLISH']; 
echo ' - '.$row['SINHALA']; 
    echo '<br/>';

    }


?>

i want to post that text value like index.php?=text=(text box value here)

and i want to get that submited to $jam

Remove > from index.php-> <form action="index.php> in your code — swapnesh
– swapnesh, Commented Dec 31, 2012 at 15:04
Use Get method instead of POST, and i think u too dont want this = sign in ndex.php?=text=(text box value here) its going to be ndex.php?text=(text box value here) — swapnesh
– swapnesh, Commented Dec 31, 2012 at 15:05
url showing as index.php?jam=so&submit=Translate i want to remove &submit=Translate code — user1939816
– user1939816, Commented Dec 31, 2012 at 15:15
thank.. how can i convert index.php?jam=what urls to .html like /what.html — user1939816
– user1939816, Commented Dec 31, 2012 at 15:26

SeanWM · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-31 15:05:05Z

3

Form method should be get not post.

Also, remove the > from your action. Small typo.

Try:

<form action="index.php" method="get">  
<input type="text" name="jam" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Translate" />
</form>

Then you can do: $jam = $_GET['jam'];

answered Dec 31, 2012 at 15:05

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user1939816 Over a year ago

i want to set my text box value to variable and post it with my link. like index.php?id=<my text box value here>

Pankit Kapadia Over a year ago

@user1939816 - change name="jame" to name="id" to do so.

user1939816 Over a year ago

the url showing as index.php?jam=so&submit=Translate i want to remove &submit=Translate this

user1939816 Over a year ago

working. thanks .. and i want to convert index.php?jam=what this php url to .html url how to do it

user1939816 Over a year ago

@sean accepted the answer. stackoverflow.com/questions/8562724/php-url-to-html-url by this tutorial how can i change my index.php?jam=what to html ? like index.html?jam=what ?

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