4 replies to this topic

[padora]

So I have...

An html page, guest.html
a php page, doit.php
a php page view.php

I want to go on the html page and type a name, "strname", an age "strage" and have it put those two inputs on the third page view.php.

how would i go about doing this. if im doing it the wrong way please correct me

[Noitidart]

Why have doit.php can't you just post it straight to view.php and it will show up there.

[Sweeney]

I'd just pass them as variables in the URL.
But I'm lazy

[Dan]

It's really dependent on what you'd like to do.

There are a 3 viable options:

• Pass via querystring (ie doit.php?name=dan&password=password
• Use a session variable (best for constants you need to reuse during X session)
• Cookies (best for constants you need always - ie a keep-logged-in option)

For something as simple as you're doing, a querystring should be fine - it's easy to implement.

Make a request to your php page (doit.php) with the querystring added:

http://www.notaurl.codex/doit.php?name=dan&password=password

This then allows you to access said querystring in PHP like the following:

$username = $_GET['name'];
$password = $_GET['password'];

Easy.

[artificial]

In which case your form method would be get. Other alternative is to post the data.

HTML

<form action="doit.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="name" value="" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

doit.php

<?php

$Name = $_POST['name'];
print "Name is: " . $Name;

?>

Edited by Artificial, 28 June 2010 - 02:37 AM.