Question

I am working to make a form where I can collect names and email addresses and send them to a MySQL database for storage. I wrote the HTML and PHP file and it seems to be working. It echoes “Thank you for entering an email!”. When I look at the database it creates a line for the data but all the fields are blank. I am not sure what’s going on, and this is the first time I have worked with a database. Thanks for all your help!

HTML

<form action='/submitEmail.php' action='POST'>
  <p>First name: <input type='text' id="firstname" name='firstname' /></p>
  <p>Last name: <input type='text' id="lastname" name='lastname' /></p>
  <p>Email: <input type='text' name='email' /></p>
  <input type='submit' value='Submit Email' />
</form>

PHP

<?php
  // Connecting to the MySQL server
  $host="myHost";
  $user_name="myUsername";
  $pwd="myPassword";
  $database_name="myDatabase"; //assuming you created this
  $db=mysql_connect($host, $user_name, $pwd);
  if (mysql_error() > "") print mysql_error() . "<br>";
  mysql_select_db($database_name, $db);
  if (mysql_error() > "") print mysql_error() . "<br>";
  // Storing form values into PHP variables
  $firstname = $_POST["firstname"]; // Since method="post" in the form
  $lastname = $_POST["lastname"];
  $email = $_POST["email"];
  // Inserting these values into the MySQL table
  // we created above
  $query = "insert into email_list (firstname, lastname, email) values ('" . $firstname . "', '" . $lastname . "', '" . $email . "')";
  $result = mysql_query($query);
  // mysql_query() is a PHP function for executing
  // MySQL queries
  echo "<p>Thank you for entering an email!</p>";
?>

Answer 1

Attribute method should be post.

<form action='/submitEmail.php' method='POST'>