Variable Help Please

[BenPWheeler]

In my index.html:
I have a form that get the type of user (student or lecturer)
This passes it to login.php as 'user'
In my login.php:
I now thank the $user and ask them to login with their username &
password by another form, passing name and pw to a file called
check.php.
In check.php:
I know the name and pw, but need need to know the user type as well,
how do i pass that into check.php with the form???

[JakesSA]

$_POST

[bjwilke]

in the form of the login.php insert a hidden input field:

$htmlout = "
<form action='check.php' method='post'>
  <input type='hidden' name='usertype' value='$usertype'>
  Name:<input name='name'><br>
  .
  .
  .
</form>";

[BenPWheeler]

Cheers!!!