passing values without submit button

flashgroover

i am trying to pass values from one cases statement to another. but i dont have a submit button. im trying to pass it through the <a href> tag. this is where im at but it doesnt work.

"<a href='mens.php?whatCase=mensWatches&whichBrand=Alain Siberstein'></a>"

recieving case starts as such

<?php

if (!empty($GET['whatCase'])){
$src = $GET['whatCase'];
}else{
$src = 1;
}
switch($src){

case 'mensWatches':

	$whichBrand =$_POST['whichbrand'];

Rohan_Hill

What you've got looks alright (other than that there's nothing between the <a> tags and no ?> at the end of your PHP but I assume that that's just because these are copied chunks, not the whole thing).

Try just putting print $_GET['whatCase']; and see if that's printing anything, because if you're going to the url mens.php?whatCase=mensWatches&whichBrand=Alain Siberstein it definately should.

nemonoman

$whichBrand =$_POST['whichbrand'];

Did you mean

$whichBrand =$_GET['whichbrand'];

?
try $REQUEST -- combines, $POST and $_GET

if your version of PHP is older, you might have to use $HTTP_GET_VARIABLES

surfer

"<a href='mens.php?whatCase=mensWatches&whichBrand=Alain Siberstein'></a>"

Try to urlencode the values you trying to pass.
The problem may come from whichBrand=Alain Siberstein. It should be something like whichBrand=Alain+iberstein .You can have such encoding with the PHP function urlencode or rawurlencode (you can see the difference in the PHP doc). Like this then : whichBrand=urlencode(Alain Siberstein).

Hope it helps
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flashgroover

thank you for your reply's im still a little lost though.

let me better explain my script. im sending a value from a JavaScript that looks like this-

// ssmItems[...]=[name, link, target, colspan, endrow?] - leave 'link' and 'target' blank to make a header
ssmItems[0]=["Please Select A Watch"] //create header

ssmItems[1]=["Alain Siberstein", "<a href='mens.php?whatCase=mensWatches&whichBrand=Alain Siberstein'></a>", "",1,"no"]
ssmItems[2]=["Alfredo Versace", "<a href='mens.php?whatCase=mensWatches & whichBrand=Alfredo Versace'></a>","",1]

and recieving on a diffeent page that looks like this-

<?php

if (!empty($GET['whatCase'])){
$src = $GET['whatCase'];
}else{
$src = 1;
}
switch($src){

//default:
case 'mensWatches':

//$whichBrand = 'rado';
$whichBrand =$_GET['whichbrand'];

your continued help is appreciated

Rohan_Hill

PHP variables are case sensitive, so you should be going $whichBrand =$_GET['whichBrand']; note the capital B in whichBrand, which is the way it is in the url. Also, in the url, don't put spaces around the &.

surfer

Mainly, what i meant is the browser can not understand a link like this "<a href='mens.php?whatCase=mensWatches&whichBrand=Alain Siberstein'></a>
it should be something like this
"<a href='mens.php?whatCase=mensWatches&whichBrand=Alain+Siberstein' ></a>"

The url will be
'mens.php?whatCase=mensWatches&whichBrand=Alain+Siberstein

Now if you generated the string "Alain Siberstein" from PHP, you can use the urlencode function to do it [urlencode("Alain Siberstein") gives you "Alain+Siberstein" ], there might be a way to do it from javascript but i don't know it.

Also from you code, i noticed there is not a text for the link (a text that the user can click on )

"<a href='mens.php?whatCase=mensWatches&whichBrand=Alain+Siberstein' ></a>"

If the link is not meant to be activated by the user (eg You just want to call another page dynamicaly from javascipt) you better use the location object from javascipt
like this document.location='page.php?a=somevalue&b=hope+it+helps';
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