links

chrisleon

If I have a <a href="something.php?item=$var">$var

and I pass it to that page, is there a way to hide line afterwards

www.somedomain.com/something.php?var=coke

Is there a way to not show the user the var=coke. Pass the variable, but then hide what the user is going after. I am using a very weak example, but the information I am showing is customer invoices, and I have an invoice summary and detail file. I have the user click the on the invoice num, and I pass the number to look at the detail. But all the user has to do is click on the url and backspace and type in some one elses number. I like the functionality of the script, so I would like to keep it in tact. If anyone has any suggestions, please help me out. Thank you.

gtibok

use forms to pass variables
<form ... method="POST">

the POST method would not send the variables in the url. You must create a form for each link. (the link would be the submit).

Or use frames. If u use frames the url would remain static (the frameset page url)

*ATTENTION the links are show in status bar (put some status bar scroling text -javascript)

Another way is to encrypt your links ... (there are a lot of softwares to help you whit this) ....

chrisleon

I am not sure what you mean you say use the links as submits. I would love to do that, but I am not sure how. Is there any way you can show me an example?

I would greatly appreciative

RoadKingHD

So it sounds like the script you are working with is not making use of sessions. Using sessions would allow you to access the value of the var without passing it in the url. If it has to be passed in the url, how about using md5() to mask it?

$myCoke = md5($myCoke);

<a href="something.php?item=$myCoke">Coke</a>;

provided you are not sending too many values this way as you are limited by length of the url.

The value of $myCoke is going to look like b9d26bb69f638a1c55025e1f67fdc46f so in order to compare it to "Coke" you would have to use:

If($myCoke == md5("Coke") {
    echo "It's Coke!";
}

Maybe not what you are looking for.

I use sessions:

session_start();
$_session['myCoke'] = "Coke";

gtibok

<?php
//file first.php
$var1 = "coke";
$var2 = "milk";
?>
<html><body>
<form action="la.php" method="post">
<input type=hidden name=drink value="<?echo $var1;?>">
<input type="submit" value="<?echo $var1;?>">
</form>
<br><br>
<form action="la.php" method="post">
<input type=hidden name=drink value="<?echo $var2;?>">
<input type="submit" value="<?echo $var2;?>">
</form>

</body></html>

<?
// file: la.php
echo $drink;

gtibok

P.S.
u could use images for the submit buttons
<input type=image>...