Passing Variables - I thought I could do

[Anon]

Hi everyone!

I'm doing something wrong here - but I can't work out what - can anyone help me?

<form name="form1" method="post" action="respag/hotel.php3?Search=1?area" ENCTYPE="x-www-form-urlencoded">

<select name="area" size="1">
<option>Dublin City Centre </option>
</select>

Now, with Dublin City Centre selected I thought it should pass

respag/hotel.php3?Search=1?Dublin City Centre

but it passes

respag/hotel.php3?Search=1?area

and doesn't do the variable conversion

Help!!! I had this working on another page!

Regards

elizabeth

[ace21]

How is area so supposed to become Dublin City Centre? Is it supposed to be area=$area?
as it stands now area is pretty much worthless.

Ace21

[junebug]

try this:

<option value="Dublin City Centre">Dublin City Centre</option>

if you don't give your value an option, it's not going to do anything.

[Anon]

Yes, probably!

The thing was I had another form with a search on it that worked fine with:

text field called searchphrase

and

wyis/search.php3?search=1?searchphrase

so I got in a real muddle with this one!

Do you think it's just a case of

respag/hotel.php3?Search=1&area=$area

??

[Anon]

Ah yes

The value - stupid me - I had a feeling it was something basic like that

Thanks

I'll give it a try tomorrow and let you know.

Regards

Elizabeth

[Anon]

Hi and thanks for all the help - however I've still got problems!

At the moment I've tried:

1.

<form name="form1" method="post" action="respag/hotel.php3?Search=1?area" ENCTYPE="x-www-form-urlencoded">

<select name="area" size="1">
<option value="Dublin City Centre">Dublin City Centre </option>
</select>

<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">

</form>

2.

<form name="form1" method="post" action="respag/hotel.php3?Search=1&area" ENCTYPE="x-www-form-urlencoded">

<select name="area" size="1">
<option value="Dublin City Centre">Dublin City Centre </option>
</select>

<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">

</form>

3. (this is a php3 file)

<form name="form1" method="post" action=
<?php echo "respag/hotel.php3?Search=1&area=$area"?>
ENCTYPE="x-www-form-urlencoded">

<select name="area" size="1">
<option value="Dublin City Centre">Dublin City Centre </option>
</select>

<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">

</form>

and none of them bring through the value of area when submit is pressed.

What I think is happening is that the form action is taking place before the variable value is collected - does that make sense? - but how do I make it work!

Thanks everyone

Regards

Elizabeth

[ace21]

I'm sorry do this.

<form name="form1" method="post" action=
<?php echo "respag/hotel.php3?Search=1"?>
ENCTYPE="x-www-form-urlencoded">

<select name="area" size="1">
<option value="Dublin City Centre">Dublin City Centre </option>
</select>

<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">

</form>

You passed area in two spots and the way you did it used the value in the url line which is blank b/c $area doesn't exist until you submit it.

Ace21

[nagasea]

Wow this is intresting 🙂

so is there anyway to define the value before someone hit the Submit button ?

Because sometime when ppl hit submit, the Value can change by itself ( i think )

[Anon]

Hi Ace

It's OK, I'm having a really foggy time with this one!

Reading your code though, I can't see how area gets passed at all? Wouldn't
the call just say:

respag/hotel.php3?Search=1

??

I need it to say:

respag/hotel.php3?Search=1&area=Dublin City Centre

or is it:

respag/hotel.php3?Search=1?area=Dublin City Centre

Regards

Elizabeth

[ace21]

Ok here goes.

if the select statement is in the form when you hit submit the $area variable will be passed automatically to the next script.

<form name="form1" method="post" action="respag/hotel.php3?Search=1" ENCTYPE="x-www-form-urlencoded">

this should be all you need

if the $area is already available then do this

<form name="form1" method="post" action="respag/hotel.php3?Search=1&area=$area" ENCTYPE="x-www-form-urlencoded">

this will pass the value of $area to the next script.

If this does not help then post your whole page and i'll look it over.

Ace21

[Anon]

thanks!

I'll give it a go