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Chandan K. Sah
Courses Plus Student 12,665 PointsPHP variables inside form input values.
Can I use php variables inside form input values something like this.
<form method="POST" action="account_profile.php?r=update">
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" value="<?php echo $name; ?>">
<input type="email" name="email" id="email" value="<?php echo $email; ?>" disabled>
<input type="text" name="bitcoin" id="bitcoin" value="">
<input type="text" name="perfectmoney" id="perfectmoney" value="">
<input type="text" name="egopay" id="egopay" value="">
<input type="submit" value="Update Account">
</form>
3 Answers
George Cristian Manea
30,787 PointsYes you can
thomascawthorn
22,986 PointsMake sure you escape any output that could potentially come from a user (if this is what you're planning on doing). An example would be maintaining the form values between pages, like when you have an error in the submission and you don't want the user to lose the correct/previous information they've entered.
A really simple example of escaping would be:
<?php
value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_POST['email']); ?>"
?>
You can test it out by not escaping the output and entering php code directly into the input.. You can really mess things up!
Zdenek Klikar
2,577 PointsIn my opinion, even better and definitely shorter way to do it is to ommit 'php' and 'echo' and use shortened PHP opening brackets for echo. Here is an example:
<input type="text" name="first_name" value="<?=$first_name?>">
is equal to:
<input type="text" name="first_name" value="<?php echo $first_name; ?>">