Passing variables into PHP form

[Anon]

Hi there,

I'm using a URL to send a variable to a PHP form. The name of the form is emailus.php, and the link to this form is ..

http://www.yyy.com/emailus.php?kewmail=1

So, in other words, I'm trying to pass the variable "kewmail" with value "1" into the form emailus.php.

Now, this does get carried into the form emailus.php, but only to a certain point.

To post the form I'm using the POST method, with the $PHP_SELF action.

Before the form is displayed, the kewmail variable does work, but after submitting the form, this variable is cleared out!

Does anyone have any idea why this variable gets cleared out, and how I can prevent or get around this?

Kind Regards!!

Neil

[Anon]

The variable gets "cleared out" because you are doing nothing to make it available to subsequent pages. You're posting to $PHP_SELF, but that variable does not preserve the query string. There are a number of solutions you could pursue:

-- Sessions
-- Cookies
-- Appending the query string to PHP_SELF
-- Hidden inputs in the form

[Anon]

Ive solved this one folks ...

I had to put this in my form code..

<INPUT type=\"hidden\" name=\"kewmail\" value=\"$kewmail\">

Kind Regards!

Neil