Creating HTML Forms and Receiving HTTP POST Data

In my previous post, I showed you how to use HTTP GET to transfer/receive data through a page's URL (as well as how to intermingle PHP code with HTML code). What if you want the user to submit data through an HTML form to your website? That's where HTTP POST comes in.

There are two parts to making standard HTML forms: the HTML form code itself (including graphics, placement, text, and logic/data) and the PHP script that will retrieve the form data. We'll start with a brief overview of how you might want to make the form.