• requirements for the HTML output of your program
  1. A basic html form page format
  2. Have a text field that asks for their first name
  3. A text field that asks for their age
  4. A set of radio buttons that asks for gender (male female other)
  5. The method should be "post" and the action should be "prog1.php" or $_SERVER[PHP_SELF]
  6. And the page and any output must validate to XHTML 1.0 Transitional
• 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, but you can keep the form on the page regardless
  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 for the gender, and if they are male, print out a link to http://www.geek.com, if female print out a link to http://www.geekgirl.com/, and if they choose "other" have it print out both.
  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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