URL variable problem

sfmnetsys

I have a form I am using javascript to submit. One of the variables in the form is pulled form the URL. The other variable is selected from a drop down list. the form is then submitted.

For some reason the URL ends up as:
http://localhost/inventory/inventory.php?clientid=1%5C%22%22&machid=2

Here is the code I'm using:

For the form:
<?php
// includes
include("includes/config.php");
include("includes/functions.php");
include ("includes/connect.php");

<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<form action="inventory.php?clientid=<?php echo "$clientid";?>&machid=<?php echo"$machid";?>"><input type="hidden" name="clientid" value=<?php echo $clientid;?>"><?php include ("queries/menulist/computernamebyclient.ph");?>

</form>

</body>

The query the populates the dropdown menu is:
<?php
// generate and execute query
$list_computername_sql = "SELECT cname,machid FROM inventory WHERE clientid='$clientid'";
$list_computername_result = mysql_query($list_computername_sql);
$numrows = mysql_num_rows($list_computername_result);
if ($numrows>0) {
while ($list = mysql_fetch_array($list_computername_result)) {
echo "<li><a href=\"inventory.php?clientid=$clientid&machid=".$list["machid"]."\">".$list["cname"]." </a><br><br></li>";
}

}else{
echo"<font face=\"arial\" size=\"3\" color=\"#CC0000\">There are no computers available at this time.</font>";
}

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.

Anon

The problem is probably somewhere where you populate the dropdown menu. The strange string is URL encoded \"" so I assume you have made the mistake in escaping... it appears right after clientid value (in your case 1) so look there.

Boris Belobrad
http://www.belcombailey.com

sfmnetsys

Oops! I posted the wrong code that populates the drop-down menu.

Here it is:

<?php
// create SQL statement

$result = mysql_query("SELECT cname,machid FROM inventory WHERE clientid='$clientid'");

echo " <select name=\"machid\" onChange=\"this.form.submit('_parent')\">\n";

while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {

echo ' <option value="'.$myrow["machid"].'">'.$myrow["cname"]."</option>\n";
}
echo " </select>\n";
?>

sfmnetsys

I found the problem. The value of the hidden input field was not properly closed. I only had one quotation mark.

sfmnetsys

The problem I am having now is that when I select a value from the drop-down list instead of reloading the entire frameset with the new values only the top frame loads. How can I fixt this?