pass the value of a textfield to another page

behzad

how i can pass the value of some textfield to a variable in the next page ?

Weedpacket

http://www.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.forms.php

vaska

i'm having the same problem...and i just can't get it to work...this seems like an easy thing to...my code...

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

then...i call it up like this on the entry.php page...

<? echo $_GET["html"]; ?>

i've tried post and request as well...i did a vardump to see if the correct values were passing and they were...

now...what am i missing?

ereptur

Originally posted by vaska
i'm having the same problem...and i just can't get it to work...this seems like an easy thing to...my code...
<form name="form" method="post" action=""> 
then...i call it up like this on the entry.php page...
<? echo $_GET["html"]; ?>
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Vaska, what you are doing wrong is that you are getting the contents of the $GET global, but you used the post method in your form. Use $POST to get values passed by your form.

vaska

i HAVE tried $_POST...

it's just on $_GET at the moment because i was just trying whatever i could think of...

??????????????

i sure must be stupid today...i don't think this is a hard thing to figure out...argh...jv

ereptur

I see that you've specified an onclick event. With some browsers, when you specify an onclick event you can just hit enter to submit your form. You must explicitly press the submit button.

Have you tried that?

vaska

yep...i am pressing the button...

it opens up a popup window...as i've mentioned...i did a var dump to see if the correct info was being pass to the popup and it IS...so i just can't figure out why $_POST isn't working...

???...jv

ereptur

The only other thing that I can think of then is that the variable is holding some data that contains ' or " that is breaking the html part of the card.

vaska

what is the best way to determine this? would the vardump work for determining what's going on with that?

diego25

i did a vardump to see if the correct values were passing and they were...

So where did you find the values?

Diego

ereptur

what I would usually do is echo the variable on your receiving script into a <pre> tag in your html... this would show you all of the text and let you know what you are dealing with. Optionally, you can just run it through addslashes() to hopefully get rid of any of the offending content, but then you are going to have to use a stripslashes() if you want the output to look correct.

I guess it would help if I knew the context in which everything was being used.

vaska

spoke too soon...

the var_dump in question is passing a "NULL" value...

i guess i should break everything down and build it back up...geezus this is frustrating...

thanks for the help...jv

vaska

opinion...

maybe this is the problem...the page that the information is being passed from...is creating multiple/looped verions of this form...something like this...

1.html
2.html
3.html
12.html

for each html a form is created so that from there...when the button is pressed, it will pass this url to a popup window using $_POST...

maybe this is the problem? maybe this is not possible? ideas?

Weedpacket

Thing is, the page (entry.php) that is loaded in the popup window has nothing to do with the page the form is being submitted to (which is....what?)

If the popup is the whole objective, and you're not actually trying to POST a form, then

<form>
<div align="right"><input
	type="button"
	onClick="MM_openBrWindow('entry.php?var=<? echo urlencode($row['html']); ?>',
			'blorb','status=yes,width=400,height=300')"
	class="text1"
	value="<? echo htmlspecialchars($row['html']); ?>"></div></form>

ought to be sufficient. In entry.php the html thing would be available as $GET['var']. It's $GET, because the variable is being passed to entry.php in the querystring (as part of a GET request). The urlencode() and htmlspecialchars() are defensive programming practice. Consider, for example, that without urlencode(), the URL you're trying to open in the pop would end with ".html".

rohithmr

uhh Weedpacket, i think 'MM_openBrWindow' is not a native Javascript function, I am guessing u took that from a page that is generated by Macromedia Dreamweaver, cuz it usuall prefixes all its function with 'MM_'. So u need to provide that function in the HTML page to generate that popup.

I mite b rong, so correct me, if i am

Weedpacket

Originally posted by rohithmr
uhh Weedpacket, i think 'MM_openBrWindow' is not a native Javascript function, I am guessing u took that from a page that is generated by Macromedia Dreamweaver, cuz it usuall prefixes all its function with 'MM_'. So u need to provide that function in the HTML page to generate that popup.

I took it from the code vaska wrote. I'm sure in the original page there is a (perfectly ordinary, Dreamweaver-written, bloated) function called MM_openBrWindow(); but it's nothing to do with me.

behzad

i have a submit form that it's action refers to a 1.php
in 1.php i can accese my variable in the last form(submit).
in 1.php after some code i change my window source to 2.php and in 2.php my variables are lost.
my code in 1.php :

echo "<SCRIPT language=\"JavaScript\">\n";
echo "self.location.replace(\"2.php\");\n";
echo "</SCRIPT>";

orangehairedboy

What version of PHP are you using? If it's before 4.1.0 then you'll have to use $HTTP_POST_VARS.

Weedpacket

All the variables in 1.php will be lost when you go to 2.php, becase the request for 2.php is completely different from the request for 1.php. Unless you make the effort to tell it otherwise, the server will have no reason to think that the two requests have anything whatsoever to do with each other.

You'll need to have 1.php store the variables somehow (session variables, say, or putting them in 2.php's querystring (as vaska is doing)), so that you can retrieve later them in 2.php.