• requirements for the HTML output of your program
  1. Remember this is just OUPUT generated by PHP, it is NOT a separate page
  2. A basic html form page format (may want to use <<< )
  3. Have a text field that asks for their first name
  4. A text field that asks for their age
  5. A set of radio buttons that asks a question (yes,no, maybe as your three answers)
  6. The method should be "post" and the action should be "firstform.php" or $_SERVER[SCRIPT_NAME]
  7. And the page and any output must validate to HTML 5
• Programming Requirements
  1. As it is slightly safer, use the $_POST['namefromform'] type format to grab your responses from the form (note: as a reminder, namefromform is whatever you used in the name="  " attributes in the form)
  2. Only print if they have entered something, if they hit submit without entering anything, print out an error and reshow the form. Use the

     if ($_POST['submitted'])
     { 
     *process form*
     *real work is done here*
     } 
     else 
     {
     *show form*
     }
     

     
     for your basic 'control"
  3. Print back the name in a "Hello $name" format, but, if it is YOUR first name, have a different greeting. In my case, if the name matched "Phil" I'd say, "Wow, Phil is such a cool name" ;)
  4. Take their age, and print (using a loop, probably while()) out a countdown to their age. (If they are 10, you should see it print 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10)
  5. Use a switch statement (But NOT the 'TRUE' weird version) for the question
     1. If yes, print out a working link to some page
     2. If they choose "no" print out a different link
     3. If they choose "maybe" print out both links
  6. Use trim() and strlen to partially decontaminate the user input
• Print the date at the bottom of the page in the format Tuesday, September 9, 2010

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