passing a varialbe

Anon

I'm new to php and would love some help with this one.

I have a form with a text field. I need the text fild to pass the users input to the 'value' tag on the hidden field.

Anon

PHP is server-side so you can't do that if they are on the same page. You'd have to user javascript to do that.

If they are on consecutive pages, it's easy:

PAGE 1:
<input type="text" name="variable1">

PAGE 2:
<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="<? echo $variable1 ?>">

of course, you would have to point your form in the dirst page to the second page and the suffix on the second page would have to be .php (or something triggering the PHP engine)

Anon

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<head>
<title>Untitled</title>
</head>

<body>
How is this done? I have a form with a textarea. When I type the caracter ' .
The text displayed in the textarea will change to \'. I do not want this behavior.

I tried the following and nothing worked

Thank you.<br><br>

Type:
Car '93 Porsche<br>
and the click submit. \ is added
<form name="test"
action="testurl.php"
method="get">

<?
$desc = (isset($desc)) ? $desc : "";
$test1 = urlencode($desc);

$test2 = rawurlencode($desc);

$test3 = urldecode($desc);

$test4 = htmlspecialchars ($desc);

$test5 = strip_tags($desc);

<?=$test1?><br>
<?=$test2?><br>
<?=$test3?><br>
<?=$test4?><br>
<?=$test5?><br>

</body>

Anon

How would I do this in javascript. The varibale needs to be passed to the hidden field value on the same page.