Passing variables...simple!?!

tvancenet

Ive just passed a variable from a Flash file to my date page-- the month,day,and year.

It shows up nicely in a little php box that eachos it..No problem... THIS MAY BE TOO WAY SIMPLE BUT ITS ESCAPRING ME AND ITS LATE!

HOW DO I NOW PASS THIS DATE TO THE NEXT MORE FOCUSED PAGE WHEN SOMEONE SIMPLY CLICK ON A LINK! ((HERE'S THE SCENARIO, THEY PICK A DATE TO LOOK FOR AN AUCTION, NOW THEY ARE ON THAT DATES PAGE, BUT IHAVE OTHER BUTTONS THAT ALLOWS THEM TO PICK A CATEGORY TO FURTHER NARROW THE SEARCH--BUT THE CATEGORY BUTTONS ARE ORDINARY HTML---HOW DO I PASS THESE VARIABLE WITH THESE BUTTONS???))

tHANKS SO MUCH FOR ANY HELP!

tasistro

I understand you want to post the data to a php script. The page with the post data has many buttons
and you don't know how to tell it to post the date no matter which button is pressed. Right?

The following form covers all the buttons and auction formating html code

<input type="submit" name="auction_category_button[0]" value="Acept">

<input type="submit" name="auction_category_button[1]" value="Acept">

<input type="submit" name="auction_category_button[2]" value="Acept">

<input type="submit" name="auction_category_button[3]" value="Acept">

</form>

Then on the php script you check to si if the selected button is set or not. If for example
category 2 was selected you should have a auction_category_button variable set with a key 2.
So you can work from that. Obviously you can change the numbers to something more
representative like cars, jewelry, houses, etc. Anyway no matter which button gets pressed all
the hidden variables (date, time) are posted too.

Hope it helps.

Saludos
Gerardo

tvancenet

Here is the site: www.auctionillinois.com (click on a date then check out the left buttons)...

And I place this form at the beggining and end of my buttons right?

Also, I have already sent the variable mon., day., and year to the date.php page but I dont What that day is because it is WHATEVER the user checked in the index page...SO how in your script:
<input type="hidden" name="date " value="%your date value%">
Would I place the VALUE that was passed from the previous page? Follow me? I hope? I couldn't put a REAL value its whatever the user picked,
THE BEST THING WOULD BE IF I COULD JUST PASS ALL VARIABLE RESIDING ON THIS PAGE TO THE NEXT PAGE DOWN....COULD I DO THAT?

THANKS AGAIN TV.

tasistro

Lets see if I get this right, you have variables month, day and year set by the user in the index.php page. That's when I enter you site. Those variables get posted to the date.php page, but you don't really want them there. The user selects some option in the data.php and posts to third_page.php. It is in third_page.php that you really need the date values right?

Month, day and year values are available in the date.php script. That is

echo $mon." ".$day." ".$year will generate good output.

Am I right up to here?

Saludos
Gerardo