Passing Form variables using header()

[Anon]

Thanks to you all who have helped me piece the solution to this issue together. I am now able to call Form B, C, or D, depending upon the input of Form A, via the PHP script and a case statement.

I have also attached the Form A variable to the header function, e.g. ". . .php?name=$name&address=$address" etc. Hidden variables do not seem to transfer via the script to the next form, so I chose the header method.

Now how do I reference the variables on the next form? Using the familiar VALUE= "<? $name ?>" does not work, as the form just treats it as a literal. How would I populate a text box with the $name variable that came from Form A via the script to Form B?

Please note: I am limited to PHP 3.x and cannot use Sessions.

[terje-s]

I'm not quite sure what the question really was. However, header() obviously has nothing to do with this at all.

A header is a string sent to the browser before any html output, to e.g. change cache-settings for this particular page, or to redirect the browser to another page (and a bunch of other stuff).

However, your question was "how to populate textboxes with the value of a variable". You are quite correct with the VALUE="..", however there is one mistake.

<input type="text" name="test" value="test">

would create a textbox with name and value set to "test". I think this is what you want?

<input type="text" name="test" value="<?php $test ?>"> .. ? This would be approx the same as

<?php
$temp
$test
$what
?>

Wich is some pretty useless php code 😉 It would either not output anything, or cause a parse error (I have never tried so I don't know😉.. What you want to do is to PRINT the value of $test, so that it actually gets sent to the remote web-browser.

try using <? echo $test; ?> or <? print $test; ?>. Note that for textareas, you'd do:

<textarea name="test"><? echo $test; ?></textarea>

:]

[Anon]

Thanks for your reply!

What I am trying to do is quite ordinary (and is done millions of times every day on the Internet). The user chooses an option on Form A from a list box. The PHP script then, via the header() function, redirects the user to another Form (B, C, D, etc.) based upon his choice.

For example, lets say the user on Form A chooses "Buick" instead of "Cadillac" in the list. The script will then redirect him to the "Buick" Form, where he may view Buick cars.

When he gets to the Buick form, I want to be able to display his previous input, name, address, etc. so that he does not need to reenter this information.

This concept is simple, but the execution does not seem to be so simple!

[sparc-e]

I am having the same problem. I am creating an email application that takes the data from the human surfing the web who wants to send email to our chef. The fill out the form, I get the email data, which I then pass onto the person intended ... If it is appropriate, no profanity, death threats, etc.
The problem that I am having is that I want to create a form that takes the data, stores it off on a file, sends me the email, I approve/disapprove it actions take place, and then if the client gets the email they get a notification, click the link to visit the page, pick up the email, reply to it, the person who sends it gets the email, they reply ... for ever and ever ...
I have tried a few different ways to do it, but I don't get the data if I pass it to another PHP script, or when I pull in the data it does not come in and be usable as variables. I have gotten to the point where I am creating HTML files and PHP files within the PHP script and then saving them off with the correct variables which is going to start to be a large overhead on the server.
Any ideas on how to get that to work? Any ideas would be great. I will keep looking around. Thanks.

Bruce

[jemrys]

Thanks for your reply. It helped me a lot!