Passing variables

[sailingaway]

I am new to PHP, but wanted to get your take on the easiest way to pass variables from one page to another. I use forms and "submit" them to each other. Example:

First page:
<input type="text" name="ticketid" size="4">
Second page:
Select * from ticket WHERE id=$ticketid.....

There has to be an easier way without forms. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Jayson]

You can put variables in the URL

http://site.com/page.php?ticketid=123

[mysql_query]

...and the only way you can do php (or any other scripting at that) is though forms, unless you are passing variables in URLs.

e.g.

<A HREF="something.php?someething=something">something</a>

I can't go into more detail because I don't know what you are doing.

[levi_501_dehaan]

Well I havn't dont it yet, but I've just had an appiphany,
i think you should be able to pass variables through the session_register() function. just make sure you have a session_start(); at the top of all your pages 🙂.

but it should work like this.
$variable1 = "data stuff";
$variable2 = "more data stuff";
$ect = "even more crap";
session_register("variable1", "variable2", "ect");

then on the recieving page put:

session_start();

$variable = $_SESSION["variable1"];
and so on, it should work, but dont shoot me if it doesnt 🙂

oh and if your going to pass variables with
something.php?data1=data
to do more than one use the & character
something.php?data1=data&data2=data&data3=data

hope i helped
-=Levi=-