Passing contents of a text box to another page by clicking a link

Arc

I need to be able to have a link next to a text box on a page and when that link is clicked it pops up another window and passes the contents of that textbox to the php page in the new window.

So for example i have a textbox and a link

|Textbox Full of text| ClickHere

Now when that link is clicked it passes the contents of that textbox to the new window the link just opened which contains a php page.

Is this possible using some javascript or something? Any help is greatly appreciated thankS!😃

jpmoriarty

<form method="get" action="submit.php" name="mainform" target="_new">
<input type="text" name="box" ><br>
<a href="#" onclick="document.mainform.submit();">Click me to submit this form</a>
 </form>

mogster

Well, this will let you submit a form by POST and where the submit-button is a link:

<?PHP
$the_text = $_POST['the_long_and_winding_text'];
$other_var = $_POST['other_var'];
$another_var = $_POST['another_var'];
$displaytext = $_POST['displaytext'];
$misself = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
switch($my_switch) {
case "displaytext":
echo "<a href=\"$misself\">To form</a><br>";
echo "Hidden var 1: ".$other_var."<br>Hidden var 2: ".$another_var."<br><h1>".$the_text."</h1>";
break;
default:
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>My linksubmitted page</title>
</head>
<body>
<SCRIPT language="JavaScript">
function linkSubmit(selectedtype) {
document.the_form.my_switch.value = selectedtype;
document.the_form.submit();
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>
<form name="the_form" action="<?PHP echo $misself; ?>" method="post">
<a href="javascript:linkSubmit('displaytext')">Click Here</a><br>
<textarea cols="48" rows="3" name="the_long_and_winding_text" id="the_long_and_winding_text"></textarea>
<input type="hidden" name="other_var" value="2656">
<input type="hidden" name="another_var" value="my username">
<input type="hidden" name="my_switch"></form>
</body>
</html>
<?PHP
}
?>

It will submit the form to the specified case in the switch $my_switch.

knutm

Arc

jp's solution worked great but thanks to both of yahs!😃

Arc

I've got another question regurding the same thing.

THe solution given works fine but the new window it opens has all the toolbar stuff and address bar etc.. I'm trying to open a windo that just has the title bar and that's it.

onclick="document.form2.submit();">"
onclick="MM_openBrWindow('email.php','','width=300,height=200')

Trying to combine these 2 statements into 1 so the form submits the email address and opens the new window with only a title bar and is 300x200.

Thanks!
😃