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schoondog

I am now able to pass variables. they appear in my url and I can reference them using GET.

Problem is that the username/password are available to whomever uses the computer when they begin typing the url it displays the info.

How can I stop this? POST? How do I get my variables from my .pl file into the .php file?

thaks

Chris_Evans

I haven't used Perl personally, but the syntax needed in terms of HTML is:

<form name="name" method="post" action="filename.php">
</form>

To continue on, the method used to collect that information (so as not to display it in the browser address bar) is:

// Basics
$_POST['fieldname'];

// To put in a variable
$variable = $_POST['fieldname'];

// Check if the form has been submitted (i.e. to use in one script)
if(!$_POST['submit'])
{
// Display all necessary code for the first page here
}
else
{
$variable = $_POST['fieldname'];
// More code here
}

The latter example you could use if you wanted to run the script under one file, rather than passing from file to file...

Hope that makes sense,

Chris

schoondog

thanks for replying.

Is there a way to pass the variables without having any user interaction, ie. clicking a button in a form?

pablodelapena

I can only think of a way using GET.

either

<?php
header ("Location: nextpage.php?foo=barr");
?>

or using html

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