User input in php without form
I'm being creative and making something new. I am wanting to use Show
but having my input Is there something I'm doing wrong? Is there another way I should do this? I'm really lost, and don't have no idea what to do now. I do not want to use
halfer 19.6k17 gold badges92 silver badges175 bronze badges asked Sep 25, 2014 at 23:12
4 This is possible with a javascript onclick or onsubmit event, using GET rather than POST, but it's definitely not best practice. Use a form or AJAX, as recommended by other posters:
answered Sep 25, 2014 at 23:25
WillWill 2,3441 gold badge13 silver badges14 bronze badges 1 You are not able to send a form data without using The only way to do this is to use ajax instead of a classic HTML form.
ZF007 3,6468 gold badges32 silver badges47 bronze badges answered Sep 25, 2014 at 23:15
derdidaderdida 14.6k15 gold badges86 silver badges138 bronze badges You can take inputs from STDIN in PHP's latest versions like:
Here $value will contain the input.
ZF007 3,6468 gold badges32 silver badges47 bronze badges answered May 14, 2019 at 5:29
1 View Discussion Improve Article Save Article View Discussion Improve Article Save Article In PHP, the console is a command-line interface, which is also called interactive shell. We can access it by typing the following command in a terminal: php -a If we type any PHP code in the shell and hit enter, it is executed directly and displays the output or shows the error messages in case of any error. A sample run of a PHP code, that reads input from PHP console looks like this: In this article, We will discuss two methods for reading console or user input in PHP:
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Output: Enter a string: GeeksforGeeks GeeksforGeeks
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Output: Enter an integer: 10 Enter a floating point number: 9.78 Entered integer is 10 and entered float is 9.78
$a = readline();
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Output:
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Output: Array ( [0] => 1 [1] => 2 [2] => 3 [3] => 4 [4] => 5 [5] => 6 ) Method 2: Using fscanf() function works same as the fscanf() function in C. We can read 2 integers from Keyboard(STDIN) as below:
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Output: The sum of 1 and 5 is 6 Comparison between two methods:
PHP is a server-side scripting language designed specifically for web development. You can learn PHP from the ground up by following this PHP Tutorial and PHP Examples. How can I get input field value in php without form?If you don't want to submit a form, the only two other ways of accomplishing this are to click a link with the data as query parameters in the url, or use AJAX to send the data to the server in the background.
Can you have inputs without a form?Yes, you can have a valid input without a form.
Can php take user input?To get input from users, you also have to prompt them to enter something. You can use PHP's `readline() function to get this input from the console.
How do I scan a value in php?The sscanf() function parses input from a string according to a specified format. The sscanf() function parses a string into variables based on the format string. If only two parameters are passed to this function, the data will be returned as an array.
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