help: form textboxes on one page will not show up a variables on second

I have a redhat 9.0 box running PHP on apache
I know php works but this form will not


index.html

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<form method="post" action="reg.php">
<input text="name1" size="20">
<input type="submit" value="submit">
</form>






reg.php

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<?

print "this name is : ";
print $name1;


?>




this will not show what name is on reg.php


thanks you in advance

Jim

jim wrote:
> I have a redhat 9.0 box running PHP on apache
> I know php works but this form will not.

> <input text="name1" size="20">

Here, use <input="text" size="20" name="name1">

Regards
--
Stefan

Hi Jim

for your last line try

echo $_POST['name1'];

jim wrote:
> I have a redhat 9.0 box running PHP on apache
> I know php works but this form will not
>
>
> index.html
>
> ---------------
>
>
>
> <form method="post" action="reg.php">
> <input text="name1" size="20">
> <input type="submit" value="submit">
> </form>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> reg.php
>
> -------------
>
>
> <?
>
> print "this name is : ";
> print $name1;
>
>
> ?>
>
>
>
>
> this will not show what name is on reg.php
>
>
> thanks you in advance
>
> Jim