I’m new to PHP, and coding in general. I’m trying to make an online calculator but I can’t get it to “calculate” the numbers. here are my scripts.

this is the form script

“Type in the numbers and the operations you wish to perform”
<form action=”answer.php” method=”REQUEST”>

# = <input type=”text” name=”1″ /><br>

operation = <input type=”text” name=”operation1″ /><br>

# = <input type=”text” name=”2″ /><br>

operation = <input type=”text” name=”operation2″ /><br>

# = <input type=”text” name=”3″ /><br>

operation = <input type=”text” name=”operation3″ /><br>

# = <input type=”text” name=”4″ /><br>

operation = <input type=”text” name=”operation4″ /><br>

# = <input type=”text” name=”5″ /><br>

<input type=”submit” value=”Calculate”><br>
</form>

That seems to work at the moment.

Now this script is the answer page.

<?php echo $_REQUEST[“1”]; ?>
<?php echo $_REQUEST[“operation1”]; ?>
<?php echo $_REQUEST[“2”]; ?>
<?php echo $_REQUEST[“operation2”]; ?>
<?php echo $_REQUEST[“3”]; ?>
<?php echo $_REQUEST[“operation3”]; ?>
<?php echo $_REQUEST[“4”]; ?>
<?php echo $_REQUEST[“operation4”]; ?>
<?php echo $_REQUEST[“5”]; ?>
= (insert code to calculate numbers here)

What do I have to do to make this work? The coding before the equal sign is there to show the problem, after the equal sign is where I want the answer to appear. REMEMBER, I’m only a few hours into this so if my script is COMPLETELY wrong, don’t laugh.

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