[Resolved] parsing a value

[zzz]

Ok, this is probably basics, but I'm stuck.

I'm submitting some values with a form. The form submission takes me to a page with the script that processes the data into a db and returns me back to the previous page via this snippet:

header("location:previouspage.php?memID=".$memID."&username=".$username);

When I get to that previous page I need to turn the values that I attached to the URL into a variable so that I could process another form on the same page. So far I've tried doing it like this:

urlencode($username)

What I was trying is to get something like that:

$user_name = urlencode($username);

So that I could reuse $user_name but it just won't work. Where am I screwing myself up?

[jernhenrik]

Not quite sure i understand completely what you mean, but to extract the values passed by the header you could use $_GET["username"].

eg:

//index.php
<?php
$memID="bonk";
$username="foo";
header("location:test.php?memID=".$memID."&username=".$username);
?>

-----

//test.php
<?
echo $_GET["username"]."<br>";
echo $_GET["memID"]."<br>";
?>

or you could use $REQUEST["username"], $REQUEST["memID"].

hth

[zzz]

Perfect!

$_GET really worked in this case