send variable via post

nunomira

in file1.php I have:

<?
$name = "nuno";
header("Location:file2.php?name=".$name);
?>

in file2.php:

<?
$name=$_GET['name'];
echo $name;
?>

works just fine

How can I do the same using POST instead of GET?

superwormy

---------- file1.php ----------

</form>

--- file2.php ----

<?php

print ($_POST['name']);

nunomira

hi,

your code uses a button to send me to the new page.
this goes away from the header()'s idea.

is there a way to combine both, or an alternative way, or something I'm doing wrong?

jpmoriarty

the only way you can post a variable is to use a form, so if you can figure out a way to write a form that doesnt use buttons or require any user input, and still does something useful, then you're onto a winner.

epimeth

actually, its not a problem really... he just has to write a JavaScript function that submits the form once whatever would have activated php's header function occurs (in this case on the page loading)

although I fail to see why you would need a page that does nothing but send Get or Post data....

nunomira

maybe because when you're learning you ask silly things!!
:p

this is what I have:
you upload a file using a form
then it checkes if it's a jpg
and then, if is, you're redirected to a new page
I can do this sending the variable with the url
so I was wondering if this was possible any other way...

<?php
ob_start();
?>
<?php echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-1\"?".">"; ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>experience</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>

<body>
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="<?php $PHP_SELF ?>" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_UPLOAD" value="204800"><br />
upload a jpg<br />
<input type="file" name="userfile"><br />
<input type="submit" name="done" value="upload file">

<?php
if(isset($_POST['done'])){
 if($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name']=="none"){
  echo"<br />";
  echo "try again";
  exit();
 }else{
  $target = "uploads";
  $my_file = $_FILES['userfile']['name'];
  $ext = strrchr($my_file,'.');
  if($ext == ".jpg"){
   copy($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], "$target/$my_file");
   header("Location: imagem.php?image=".$my_file);
   echo "<br />";
   echo "$my_file uploaded!";
  } else{
    echo "<br />";
    echo "not a jpg, try again";
	}
 }
}
?>
</form>
</body>
</html>

epimeth

top of my head...

either have the form action point to imagem.php, which headers over back to the original page if the picture isn't a jpg...

or combine both pages into one page that displays one or the other
this is done by either using <div style="display:<?=$firstpagedisp?>"> and <div style="display:<?=$secondpagedisp?>"> tags with Xpagedisp being 'none' or '' depending on whether the picture is a jpg or not

or by having two include pages, only one of which is loaded depending on whether its a jpg or not...

nunomira

😉

thanks!