Chapter7.Interacting with the Server: Forms

Chapter 7. Interacting with the Server: Forms

While we have shown you a lot about the PHP language in the previous chapters, we have not talked much about how data gets from the web browser to the server, and how you can learn about the environment in which you are operating within scripts.

In this chapter we will

• See how forms are created in HTML pages

• Learn how data is sent from the client to the server via forms

• See how the server receives and processes data

• Learn about the various pieces of information PHP and the host web server make available to us for learning about our operating environment