[Resolved] passing a value to php thru javascript link

serichens

THis is probably a javascript syntax problem, but I can't pass my variable value in a link to a php script.

I'm trying to use javascript to display information looked up in a php script, as described in the tips

http://phpbuilder.com/tips/item.php?id=529

My html file contains:
<html>
blah, blah blah

</html>

in lookup.php:

<? php
some database stuff ...

$cartlink = '<a href=\'cart2.php?action=add_item&prodId='.$prodId.'&qty=1\'>Add to Shopping Cart</a><br>';

 <!--
 document.write("<?php echo $cartlink; ?>");
 //-->

//eof

If I put
$prodName='test product 1';

in the file lookup.php, if works fine. It passes the prodId back to the javascript and the link in file.htm works perfectly.

As written, it doesn't pass $prodName to lookup.php, so the db lookup fails, and $prodId=null.

What's the proper syntax to pass prodName to lookup.php?

okuto1973

Try with this code......if not work try to make register globals in php ini.

And remember to mark this threat as resolved if it is!!!!!

serichens

I had to change two things:

in lookup.php, added

$prodName = $_GET['prodName'];

and in file.htm, removed the single quotes:

I had previously tried with and without the quotes, so I believe the $_GET was the root problem.

thanks,

okuto1973

Do you read what i have written or not?

If you put register globals you haven't to use $GET,$PUT etc to use a variable!

And i have also written the code without quotes......and i have written to mark this thread as RESOLVED!!!!!
You ask sometihnig and you don't read carefully what someone write you?????????????????????

serichens

thank you for your kind reply.

Didn't mean to confuse you, I was just showing what I did to resolve the issue.

At the risk of starting another debate, I didn't want to change the register globals when all I needed was one variable. The less open things in a script the better.
If the people that designed thought it should always be on, they would have left it that way.

stolzyboy

would leave register_globals OFF anyway so you KNOW where your variables are coming from, and if you feel the thread is resolved, mark it so with the link at the bottom of the page, if you can't get it to work, lemme know, i will do it

stolzyboy

looks resolved to me