form variables not passing to php

Question

I have a simple form and I'm trying to pass the form variable to php and output the value. I have tried to solve this myself with the almighty google but wasn't successful. The html form code is as follows

<html>
<head>
    <title>Form</title>
</head>

<body>
    <form method="post" action="test1.php">
    <input type="text" name="username">
    <input type="submit">
    </form>

</body>
</html>

Then the php to handle the form is:

<html>
<head>
    <title>Form</title>
</head>

<body>

    <?php

        echo "<h1>Hello " . $_POST["username"] . "</h1>";

    ?>

</body>
</html>

The output I'm getting no matter what I type into the html form is , Hello " . $_POST["username"] . ""; ?>

I don't know why it also outputs the ending semi colon and ending php tag also, maybe this is evidence of what's going wrong here?

Seems like your PHP is not working... did you check if it's running? Try creating a php file, and put the following line in it: ``. — Terry, Sep 28 '13 at 21:21
Thanks for the quick reply Terry, did work, any other suggestions? — user2827142, Sep 28 '13 at 21:26
Your form POSTs to "test1.php", are you sure you are editing the correct file? — Sébastien, Sep 28 '13 at 21:28
OK so can you format properly the output you get on submit. It is weird that `
` is not output. — Sébastien, Sep 28 '13 at 21:42

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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PHP is

misconfigured or
not configured or
not working or
not working within HTML files.

You have to configure your webserver that it parses PHP inside HTML files, see here for example:

=> Server not parsing .html as PHP

edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

Community

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answered Sep 28 '13 at 21:20

djot

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score -3 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 28 '13 at 21:42

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The syntax is fine, try to write a sample code snippet like below

<?
$a = "hello word!";
echo $a;
?>

and check if php is working.

edited Sep 28 '13 at 21:42

Amal Murali

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answered Sep 28 '13 at 21:28

Anonymous

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form variables not passing to php

` is not output.

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