hidden types...

[Anon]

Can someone tell me, what is the use of this tag ?? i mean why do you would like to use an input type="hidden"???:

<input type="hidden" name="server" value="<?php echo $server;?>">

Thank you very much...

[Anon]

I use this tag all the time! It's useful for information that you don't want a user to see but you need to process the form. A good example is a unique ID (ie 4567) that might have been passed from another page - so you just put <input type="hidden" name="id" value="4567"> and you have the data without the user going "why the hell is 4567 on this page?

--Joe
http://www.miester.org

[Anon]

I've been trying to pass variables from one script to the next. they originate from a form and are passed to a php script with no problem. I then need to pass them to a new php script using hidden fields ie:
echo "<input type=hidden name=name value=$name>";

the variables are passed, but for some reason they are truncated at the first space. ie: mike rogers, only mike will be passed on. any help would be appreciated. thanks

[Anon]

Don't mean to be picky, but it's an attribute, not a tag 🙂

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[Anon]

You should try this:

echo "<input type=hidden name=\"name\" value=\"$name\">";

If you put no quotes around your values/names
only the part before the first whitespace will be read. To output " in PHP with an echo you need to escape them with \

HTH,
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