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[Anon]

Hello Everyone,

I am trying to make it so that my links do not show the parameter values:

eg) <a href=\"status.php?section=listStatus&studentID=$studentID&schoolID=$schoolID\"></a>

in the above example I don't want people to view the $studentID and $schoolID in the URL. This is for security purposes.

Does anyone know how this can be done?? or if you can point me in the right direction.

Thank you for your time.

[rrijnders]

When you attach variable values to the url, most browsers will show that in the address bar because it is a GET request. You don't really have control over this, it is the browser's preference.

If the variables are static, you can store them as cookies or session vars and have the target page retrieve them.

Otherwise, you can create the link as a form, put the values into hidden fields, and specify the target page as the ACTION of the form's POST. Use a small image next to the text as the submit button so it doesn't really look like a form with a big submit button.

HTH
-- Rich

[rohan]

Just be careful though: if your original thought was security, the user can still "see" the values by looking at the HTML.

[Anon]

You can use session variables. Thank you PHP manual. Then you can call the variables from any page as long as you start the session and register each variable, the manual will and some web sites will help better than this message.