php variable

[asheesh.mehta.54]

hpw to store a permanent value in php variable?
for eg input.php
<form action = "output.php" method = "post">
<input type = "text" name = "q">
<input = "submit">

</form>

now output.php
<?php $a = $_POST['q']; echo $a;?>
now when we upload output.php in new tab it has no value can i use storage classes for permently store data.

[Ryan_12]

You forgot the <input type="submit" /> at the end of your form.. What I mean is you just wrote ="submit" without the 'type' identifier

EDIT: you could also use

<button type="submit"></button>

Aside from that mistake.. HTTP POST requests don't inherently allow for persistence. You need to have either a database, write your data to a file, or store it in a session variable to achieve what you want.

[asheesh.mehta.54]

yea Sir its true but it still not permanently storing value?

[Ryan_12]

Read what I said above:

Aside from that mistake.. HTTP POST requests don't inherently allow for persistence. You need to have either a database, write your data to a file, or store it in a session variable to achieve what you want.

[asheesh.mehta.54]

Sir is there any type of storage classes which can store data to hard disk?

[Ryan_12]

Yes there is, in the same thing I quoted above I stated you could write your data to a file.

Learning simple PHP or reading through the documentation should lead you here:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-put-contents.php
http://www.tizag.com/phpT/filewrite.php

Hope this helps you