PHP form errors

[mdb]

Hey guys,
I'm trying to add a form in my php script but can't seem to get it working correctly. It's basically a form that allows the user to search for people in an sql database.

Here is the part that seems to be going wrong:

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echo '<form name="search" method="post" action="'.$targetpage.'"><td><input type="text" name="find" size="50" maxLength="30" /></td>'; echo '<td><Select NAME="field"><Option VALUE="name">Player Name</option><option VALUE="steamid">Steam ID</option><option VALUE="ip">IP Address</option></select><input type="hidden" name="searching" value="yes" /><input type="submit" name="search" value="Search" /></form></td></tr>'; if ($searching == "yes") { echo "Search Successful!"; if ($find == "") { echo "<tr class=\"trow1\"><td>You didn't give me anything to search for</td></tr></table>"; exit; }

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For some reason it won't even get passed that first if statement. I can't get it to echo search successful. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[ZiNgA BuRgA]

Well it would fail if $searching isn't equal to 'yes'.
Your next step would be to find out what the hell $searching is, means and what value it is at that point in the code, and whether it's what you expect it to be.

[mdb]

I thought that was referring to this part of the form:

PHP Code:

<input type="hidden" name="searching" value="yes" />

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Would the if statement be able to capture that?

[ZiNgA BuRgA]

No, HTML and PHP don't mix.  HTML is rendered on the client machine, PHP is executed on the server machine.
Maybe you mean $_REQUEST['searching'] although that may not work as you're way too vague.

[mdb]

Ahh thanks so much ZiNgA, that worked using that .
I was using this tutorial http://php.about.com/od/phpwithmysql/ss/...http://php.about.com/od/phpwithmysql/ss/php_se for this. Specificaly pages 2 and 3 for that tutorial. Unless I missed something, that tutorial must be incorrect?

[ZiNgA BuRgA]

The web is riddled with shit PHP tutorials. (considering that like 95% of "PHP programmers" can't program)
I would presume that they may be using register globals which has actually been removed from PHP entirely these days.