Passing data through a URL

[Anon]

Hi,
I need help on how to specify the URL when using text input fields in forms.

Here is my problem.I dynamically create the content of a page ZZZ.php by passing an argument(content=thismatter) to the URL from the index page.So I have new page with the URL

http://XXX/YYY/ZZZ.php?content=thismatter

Now I need to search for some criterias on this dynamically created page for which I use a form with a text field on page ZZZ.php and enter the criteria to be searched.On action performed I need to regenerate this page with that filter condition.
<form action="http://XXX/YYY/ZZZ.php?content=thismatter">
<input type=text name=searchfield>
</form>

The problem I am facing is that the URL comes up as
http://XXX/YYY/ZZZ.php?searchfield=1222 thereby not generating the dynamically generated data which should be generated using content=thismatter.

I tried hard coding the value too check it out but that too does not work.

I havn't used forms a lot so if someone could guide me as to how to proceed I'd appreciate it.
Thanks

[Anon]

Try POST:

<form action="http://XXX/YYY/ZZZ.php?content=thismatter" method="post">
<input type="text" name="searchfield">
</form>

Diego

[Anon]

Try HIDDEN:

<form
action="http://XXX/YYY/ZZZ.php
method="post">
<input
type="hidden" name="content"
value="thismatter">
<input
type="text"
name="searchfield">
</form>

koridge

[theslinky]

In order to pass in additional "hidden" values, use the hidden form object:

<form action="http://XXX/YYY/ZZZ.php">
<input type="hidden" name="content" value="thismatter">
<input type="text" name="searchfield">
</form>

content=thismatter will be passed on to the PHP once the user submits the form. And on the user's page (the HTML output they see), they won't see the hidden form object.

DON'T pass in variables through the action="" attribute as it doesn't work on all browsers (it works for me in NS4.0 for Solaris, but it doesn't work in IE4/5 in windows)

-sridhar

[Anon]

THANKS TO ALL OF YOU!!!