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Asked: 2026-05-27T13:24:31+00:00

I’m using php to build a small form that requires passing 2 variables for

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I’m using php to build a small form that requires passing 2 variables for processing.

I got the example off w3schools and although the info gets passed in the URL, the php form doesn’t process it in any way (let alone extract it).

I’m just wondering if there might be anything wrong with my WAMP server.

    <html>
    <body>
    welcome
    Welcome <?php echo $_GET["fname"]; ?>.<br />
     You are <?php echo $_GET["age"]; ?> years old!
    </body>
    </html>

HTML form:

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://        www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;                 charset=iso-8859-1" />
    <title>Untitled Document</title>
    </head>

    <body>
    <form action="welcome.php" method="get">
     Name: <input type="text" name="fname" />
     Age: <input type="text" name="age" />
     <input type="submit" />
     </form>
    </body>
    </html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Indeed as already noted by various posts, this code should work.
    In my experience the php tags are output directly if they’re not parsed.
    Do you see anything on the page at all? You could also check the sourcecode of the page and check if you can spot anything wrong there.

    Also when copying from examples on the internet, sometimes you get weird characters that interrupt the parser. Usually this results in an error (which is not the case here), there’s no harm in checking though.

    Try outputing something simple and see if that works:

    <?php echo "Hello World"; ?>

    Can’t think of anything else at the moment…

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