Http_get_vars

[seby]

Hi.

I have a pull down menu which i am trying to modify to show links instead, its a simple menu which you select the month and year and submit to show the news for that month.

i know very, very little about GET_VARS and POST_VARS, and i want to convert it to links instead.

i want to do something like archive.php?month=January&year=2002

right now it just posts the info to archive.php

heres the pull down menu i am trying to convert to links:

<?php
	if(!$HTTP_POST_VARS[formyear]) { $thisyear = date(Y, $zeit); } else { $thisyear = $HTTP_POST_VARS[formyear]; }
    if(!$HTTP_POST_VARS[formmonth]) { $thismonth = date(m, $zeit); } else { $thismonth = $HTTP_POST_VARS[formmonth]; }

if(!$HTTP_GET_VARS[id])
{
echo"           <br>
                <form action=\"archive.php\" method=\"post\">
                <select name=\"formmonth\" class=\"forminput\">
                <option value=\"1\">$lang_ar_m[1]</option>
                <option value=\"2\">$lang_ar_m[2]</option>
                <option value=\"3\">$lang_ar_m[3]</option>
                <option value=\"4\">$lang_ar_m[4]</option>
                <option value=\"5\">$lang_ar_m[5]</option>
                <option value=\"6\">$lang_ar_m[6]</option>
                <option value=\"7\">$lang_ar_m[7]</option>
                <option value=\"8\">$lang_ar_m[8]</option>
                <option value=\"9\">$lang_ar_m[9]</option>
                <option value=\"10\">$lang_ar_m[10]</option>
                <option value=\"11\">$lang_ar_m[11]</option>
                <option value=\"12\">$lang_ar_m[12]</option>
               </select>
               <select name=\"formyear\" class=\"forminput\">
                <option>2001</option>
                <option selected>2002</option>
                <option>2003</option>
               </select>
               <input type=\"submit\" class=\"submit\" value=\"$lang_ar[choose_time]\">&nbsp;&nbsp;
				<br><a href=\"/\">$lang_ar[back_to_newspage]</a>
              </form>";
}
?>

any help is appreciated.

[cgraz]

Try this:

-- form.php --

<?
	if(!$HTTP_POST_VARS[formyear]) { $thisyear = date(Y, $zeit); } else { $thisyear = $HTTP_POST_VARS[formyear]; }
    if(!$HTTP_POST_VARS[formmonth]) { $thismonth = date(m, $zeit); } else { $thismonth = $HTTP_POST_VARS[formmonth]; }


if(!$HTTP_GET_VARS[id])
{
echo"           <br>
                <form action=\"redirect.php\" method=\"post\">
                <select name=\"formmonth\" class=\"forminput\">
                <option value=\"January\">$lang_ar_m[1]</option>
                <option value=\"February\">$lang_ar_m[2]</option>
                <option value=\"March\">$lang_ar_m[3]</option>
                <option value=\"April\">$lang_ar_m[4]</option>
                <option value=\"May\">$lang_ar_m[5]</option>
                <option value=\"June\">$lang_ar_m[6]</option>
                <option value=\"July\">$lang_ar_m[7]</option>
                <option value=\"August\">$lang_ar_m[8]</option>
                <option value=\"September\">$lang_ar_m[9]</option>
                <option value=\"October\">$lang_ar_m[10]</option>
                <option value=\"November\">$lang_ar_m[11]</option>
                <option value=\"December\">$lang_ar_m[12]</option>
               </select>
               <select name=\"formyear\" class=\"forminput\">
                <option value=2001>2001</option>
                <option value=2002 selected>2002</option>
                <option value=2003>2003</option>
               </select>
               <input type=\"submit\" class=\"submit\" value=\"$lang_ar[choose_time]\">  
				<br><a href=\"/\">$lang_ar[back_to_newspage]</a>
              </form>";

    }

?>

--- redirect.php -----
<?

if (($HTTP_POST_VARS['formmonth']) && ($HTTP_POST_VARS['formyear'])) {
header("Location: archive.php?month=" . $HTTP_POST_VARS['formmonth'] . "&year=" . $HTTP_POST_VARS['formyear'] . ");
} else {
header("Location: form.php");
}

?>
-- end of redirect.php --

Cgraz

[seby]

thanks for the help.

[seby]

okay, i tried your code and i get this:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/path/ redirect.php on line 6

[cgraz]

so redirect.php produced the error, not form.php? The code isn't tested, so you may have to fix parse errors here and there.

Try changing redirect.php to

<?

if (($HTTP_POST_VARS['formmonth']) && ($HTTP_POST_VARS['formyear'])) {
$url = "archive.php?month=" . $HTTP_POST_VARS['formmonth'] . "&year=" . $HTTP_POST_VARS['formyear'];
header("Location: $url");
} else {
header("Location: form.php");
}
?>

Cgraz

[phence]

hey just a pointer...

in the latest versions of php
$HTTP_POST_VARS
is reconised as:
$_POST

as Well as...
$HTTP_GET_VARS
is reconised as:
$_GET

i guess i just have a chip on my shoulder about this because it caused me 2 weeks of debuging to find out.

sorry to interupt..