Editor’s note: In my past posts of HTML form, the attribute “action” of the HTML form is to indicate what page will load and the data of the form will be submitted. To use the same concept, we could also use the submit button to play a role in the directing to another page. All we have to do is to create a form with just a submit button in it. Here is an example:

In this post, I am going to show how to fetch the data from a HTML form with PHP

Like a drop down menu, radio button element almost work the same but allows the users to see all the selections in a list. I use the radio button for member registration area in my past work to let them to choose things such as gender or age group etc.

I often like to use drop down menu for the users to input data because it can restrict the choices and can avoid them from making typo mistakes. It is simple to implement and the codes are:

HTML form element – text field, as its name says, it is for inputting texts, examples like name, age or password.

In most of the operations, we have to get some data from the user and use PHP code to process those data. HTML form provides an easy way for the user to input data. Cases such as login page, member registration page.