passing values (???)...help?

vaska

i'm not good with the terminology so i have to explain this...i've been searching through the forum looking for similar problems but i'm not sure...

what i have done...i've done a query that is returning results and then i'm formatting this information into a series of forms on the webpage...meaning for each result it creates a form for that piece of information...

what i want to do...is take that value...call it "xyz.html" and have it pass it to additional pages so i can access it...first and foremost, i would like this value to insert itself in a frames page so it will call up the page immediately when the popup opens...some code...

<form name="form" method="post" action="">
<input name="Submit" type="submit" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('entry.php','blorb','status=yes,width=400,height=300')" class="text1" value="<? echo  $row_doc['html']; ?>">
</form>

so far it's working fine...opening up the popup, but i can't get the "html" value to work...

ideas?

thanks...jv

cgraz

I don't think you can have a value like that on your submit button (or are you trying to have the button display the text on it?). What you might try doing is passing the variable in the url.

for example, if you wanted to pass variable $var with a value $row_doc["html"], you could do

<form name="form" method="post" action="">
<input name="Submit" type="submit" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('entry.php?var=<? echo $row_doc['html']; ?>','blorb','status=yes,width=400,height=300')">
</form>

I hope I didn't misunderstand your post, but that should get the variable over if your openBRWindow function works right.

Actually, if that's the case, you wouldn't even need a form

<input type="button" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('entry.php?var=<? echo $row_doc['html']; ?>','blorb','status=yes,width=400,height=300')">

Cgraz

vaska

another dumb question...but how would you call this up?

in the frames i'm using <? echo '$html'; ?>

what am i missing here?

thanks again...jv

cgraz

I don't get what you're asking? is $html in the url? If a variable is in the url, use

$_GET['var_name'];

or for older php version

$HTTP_GET_VAR['var_name'] (you more than likely won't be needing this one).

Cgraz

vaska

yes...$html contains a URL in it...like 12.html or something like that...

<? $_GET['var_name']; ?> isn't returing the value...i'm running php 4.2.3...

am i missing something else? do i need to put some kind of query at the beginning of the webpage? i'm sort of lost on this...something doesn't seem logical about this but i can't explain it...

edit...

used <? $_GET['html']; ?>

i did a vardump...and it gives me this...which is CORRECT...

array(1) {
["var"]=>
string(6) "1.html"
}

so...i'm not sure what i'm missing here...argh...

rather confused i am...jv