Passing variables via forms from page to page! how?

evo4ever

Hi again lol. Well im back here concerning my news post system. On the news page I would like a "Edit" button on every post. I can do it by adding a hidden field with the post id's value in it. The post id is aquired via a database query. Once you press the edit button the next page will use a $POST method the get the post id variable from the previous page (news post page). It works fine but the edit page has session registers that redirects you to login.php if no session is set. Now this is the problem... I Press "Edit", the browser tries to view "edit_post.php" but gets the redirected to login.php becuase no session is set. I can easily use $POST in the login.php form aswel the carry the postID variable from the news.php page. I know it works becuase I can view the source and the postID variable successfully gets in the hidden field in the login form. I fill the login form and login. When the browser gets to the edit_post.php the postID variable is lost! why? Anyone got any suggestions? sry for the long post.

[edit] I use a postID hidden feild to identify which post to edit.

hand

if (!$login) {
   header("Location: force_login.php?PostID=$PostID"); 
}

You also can use session variables.

evo4ever

Ok. I got that working perfectly! Thx dude! Now I tried to do it with the Post Text.... the body of the news post. And it didnt work properly, were talking about pure text here! I set up the nessarssary variables, I did get to the edit_post.php fine but the post text didnt! It came back incomplete, the body of the news post appeared in the address bar (looked very ugly!) and it didnt make it complete in the text area! Pls help! Thx.

[edit] The reason I want to carry the post text to the edit_post.php form is to elimate the need to copy/paste the text from the news.php page to the edit_mews.php page.! [/edit]

diego25

Can we see your code for that?

Diego

evo4ever

Sure. It's pretty obviously what it looks like but here:


header("location: $headerid?postid=$postid&posttext=$posttext");

Thats the query. It works fine but not all of the news text gets into the text area of the edit_news.php form

hand

http://www.php3.de/manual/en/function.rawurlencode.php

$posttext = rawurlencode($posttext);
header("location: $headerid?postid=$postid&posttext=$posttext");

evo4ever

Thx for the reply! That fixed it. I have something else I want to ask you now heh. When someone is creating a new post how do I make php convert double quotes into single quotes?. Becuase the person who created say a link they use " double quotes, which I dont want them to do! The reason I why I don't want them to use double quotes is becuase the news post doesnt display properly on the news page. So therefore I have to use single quotes. Oh and another thing.... When I get to the edit_news.php page, the text gets in great but php puts in too many slashes () before every single quote. Example, say if theres a word like this:

Don't... it would appear in the text area as:

Dont\\\\'t

Why? Do I need to use StripSlashes? Thx.

evo4ever

Ok. I've tried using this method of stripping all of the slashed from $_GET. The code is:

<?php set_magic_quotes_runtime(0);

 if (get_magic_quotes_gpc ()) {
  array_stripslashes($_POST);
   array_stripslashes($_GET);
  array_stripslashes($_COOKIES);
 }

 function array_stripslashes(&$array) {
   while (list($key) = each($array)) {
     if (is_array($array[$key])) {
      stripslashes_array($array[$key]);
     } else {
      $array[$key] = stripslashes($array[$key]);
     }
   }
 }
?>

I did work.... to an extent..

Before:
Don\\\\'t

After:
Don\\'t

Why hasn't stripslashes got rid of all the slashes? it's left 3 there! Why? Thx.