Published by OZz on October 26, 2008
under Beginners, Forms
For this tutorial you will need some files found at http://www.tutvid.com/downloads.html. You will learn to build an email handling PHP script that sends info from your on line form to your e-mail. For this you will need any version of Dreamweaver.
This is a very interesting tutorial if you would like to build your own calculator written in PHP. It guides you through all the steps and it is very clean written and has a good error checking. It uses if, witch and other math functions.
And … from users recommendation I have inserted the php code used in the video:
<?php
if ( !$_POST['submit'] ) {
echo "<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"3\">\n";
echo "<form method=\"post\" action=\"calc.php\">\n";
echo "<tr><td><input type=\"text\" name=\"num1\"/></td>\n";
echo "<td><select name=\"sign\"><option value=\"plus\">+</option>\n<option value=\"minus\">-</option>\n<option value=\"multi\">*</option>\n<option value=\"divide\">/</option></select></td>\n";
echo "<td><input type=\"text\" name=\"num2\"/></td>\n";
echo "<td><input type=\"submit\" name=\"submit\" value=\"Calculate\"/></td></tr>\n";
echo "</form></table>\n";
} else {
$num1 = $_POST['num1'];
$num2 = $_POST['num2'];
$sign = $_POST['sign'];
$errors = array();
$signs = array('plus', 'minus', 'multi', 'divide');
if (!$num1) {
$errors[] = "You did not supplied the first number";
} else {
if (!$num2) {
$errors[] = "You did not supplied the second number";
} else {
if(!$sign) {
$errors[] = "You did not supplied a sign to calculate your two numbers";
} else {
if (!in_array($sign, $signs)) {
$errors[] = "Invalid sign for calculation";
} else {
if($sign == "divide") {
if ($num2 == 0) {
$errors[] = "You cannot divide by 0. Please choose a different number to divide with";
}
}
if (!is_numeric($num1)) {
$errors[] = "Your first number is not numeric";
} else {
if (!is_numeric($num2)) {
$errors[] = "Your second number is not numeric";
}
}
}
}
}
}
if (count($errors)>0) {
echo "The fallowing errors occurred:<br>\n";
foreach ($errors as $error) {
echo $error."<br>\n";
}
} else {
switch ($sign) {
case 'plus':
$equation = $num1 + $num2;
$written = $num1 . " + " . $num2;
break;
case 'minus':
$equation = $num1 - $num2;
$written = $num1 . " - " . $num2;
break;
case 'multi':
$equation = $num1 * $num2;
$written = $num1 . " * " . $num2;
break;
case 'divide':
$equation = $num1 / $num2;
$written = $num1 . " / " . $num2;
break;
default :
$equation = "";
$written = "";
break;
}
echo $written . " = " . $equation;
}
}
</pre>
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Published by OZz on March 4, 2008
under Beginners, Forms
Learning to make User Login and work with Cookies can be pretty hard some times and it is a good idea to learn the basics from the experts. This tutorial will help you learn this.