getting variables from the header

reub77

This is the code:

This allows me to have people click a letter which in turn queries the database for all entries beginning with that letter. How do I use that variable in php? I can grab it in javascript but i am not sure how to grab it (chr=a) in php and turn it into a php variable. Then i know what to do from there.

Thanks

drew010

to use that as a php variable just somewhere at the top of the viewRoster.php and alumnilist.php files add something like::
$queryletter = $chr;
If the link they clicked on was viewRoster.php?chr=B then $queryletter will be assigned the letter 'B'. Then you can use something like this to query your database:
$query = "SELECT * FROM roster WHERE lastname LIKE 'strtoupper($queryletter)%' or 'strtolower($queryletter)%'";

That will return all those with lastname beginning with capital B or lowercase b so you can Loop thru that as you need.

diego25

PHP already turned it in to a variable for you. The value can be found in $_GET['chr']

Diego