How to transfer these variables?

Anon

How would I go about sending all the data from this address:

http://abacus.bates.edu/~rkolbe/

to the next php script

http://abacus.bates.edu/~rkolbe/redirect.php

I tried adding the variables to a URL, but if too much info is sent with it, it doesnt work.

crislewis

I am not sure what exactly you are asking but if

http://abacus.bates.edu/~rkolbe/

has 'data' in a web page and you want

http://abacus.bates.edu/~rkolbe/redirect.php

to process it then just let http://abacus.bates.edu/~rkolbe/redirect.php have the url and within the script for that page go get the page and load it into a variable.

Cheers,

Cris

Anon

I was thinking of that, I guess that's the only real easy way then....Ill have to rewrite some code (what i was trying to advoid 😉

Anon

Yeah, sending data via GET method has some size restrictions.
How about trying session functions or a database approach ?

And a different idea is sending the data via POST,you can find some scripts on internet do a manual posting with php ...

Anon

how exactally does post differ from get?

Anon

There isn't such a size restriction and values doesn't appear in the address.Isn't enough ?

Anon

even if there isnt, my script crashes if a lot of info is inputted. I am trying to figure a way right now on how to write it to a temp txt file (with a session id of some sort) and then once all 2 pages are filled out, have another script call from that txt file, get the info, and e-mail it to an e-mail address.

bastien

stuff the data into a DB, way easier to manipulate the data and store it...tracks the users and is easier to keep the data between pages. use sessions to keep track of the user.

hth

bastien