./05/script_05

1.	<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
2.		"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
3.	<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
4.	<head>
5.		<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
6.		<title>Forum Posting</title>
7.	</head>
8.	<body>
9.	<?php // Script 5.7 - handle_post.php #5
10.	/* This script receives five values from posting.html:
11.	first_name, last_name, email, posting, submit */
12.	
13.	// Address error management, if you want.
14.	
15.	// Get the values from the $_POST array:
16.	$first_name = $_POST['first_name'];
17.	$last_name = $_POST['last_name'];
18.	$posting = nl2br($_POST['posting']);
19.	
20.	// Create a full name variable:
21.	$name = $first_name . ' ' . $last_name;
22.	
23.	// Get a word count:
24.	$words = str_word_count($posting);
25.	
26.	// Get a snippet of the posting:
27.	$posting = substr($posting, 0, 50);
28.	
29.	// Print a message:
30.	print "<div>Thank you, $name, for your posting:
31.	<p>$posting...</p>
32.	<p>($words words)</p></div>";
33.	
34.	?>
35.	</body>
36.	</html>