Header w/ Variables?

silverthorn

Is it possible to trigger a header() and also pass certain variables attached to it?

I have designed a login/verification php page and want to pass over the e-mail address to the new page that uses a form for new applications.

Is this possible?

-- M

rrijnders

You can pass the value in the URL for the location like so:

$encEmail = urlencode($theirEmailAddy);
$newLoc = "/whatever.php?email=" . $encEmail;
header("Location:$newLoc");

You can also just store the email address in a session variable.

-- rich

Anon

Is it possible to pass the new URL off (ie. header w/ the email variable) upon the 2nd page via a <a href></a> when the user clicks on the link?

-- M

Anon

Yea! Ok Richard no offense you just confused me. Its cool though. Its not really that hard. Ok here is how I would do it. You want their header to contain their email? If so then here is how you would do it. Assume that emailaddress is coming from a form that they filled out on the other page. Then you would want do this:

<header>
<?php
print("<title>$emailaddress</title>
?>
</header>
<?php
....More PHP code if you want or just continue with the rest of the page.
?>

rrijnders

What he wants is to send a header() to the browser, in essance, cause the browser to load a completely different page, but he wants to pass variables to the new script. He is not asking to put the email address into the "title" tag which makes it appear in the "title" bar of the browser.

-- Rich

rrijnders

Certainly. You can construct an <A> tag like so:

<A HREF="whatever.php?email=$theEmailAddress">Click Here</A>

Just use the technique shown in my previous example of <b>urlencode()</b>ing the actual eamail address before putting it into the url.

-- Rich
-- Rich

Anon

Well exucse me. He wasnt exactly very specific on the requirements of the situation. I guess I have some homework to do on the header() function.

Chad