How to carry information from one page to the next?

Lauj

I'm designing a page that query a MySQL database and list the result in the next page, all in PHP. Now, each result has a hyperlink to it. By clicking on the hyper link, it will launch to the next page. However, I want to carry that information in the next page. Here's a similar page that shows what I'm talking about https://www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/UWC/register.html If you type in Smith as the last name in that text box, it will load a whole bunch of people with last name Smith and their graduation year. Now, when you click on any of those people's name, the page that's coming up list additional information about that person. How do I do something like that? When the user click on the name, I want to take that information and store it somewhere or carry it somehow and re-query the database to display more detail information on the next page.

Any information or suggestion on this topic is greatly appreciated.

Charlie

laserlight

The most common method for this is to use the query string.

You can then access individual name/value pairs by using the $_GET superglobal array.

Lauj

Thanks for the response. I see your point. The problem I'm facing is how do I create that query string from the current page and carry that over to the next page and then re-query the database? My point is, how do I determine which link the user click and then how do I create the query from that? Do you see what I'm talking about? Are you saying that each link itself is a form or what?

ljCharlie

laserlight

Let's consider a hypothetical class listing script.

A possible link URI:
class.php?display=students&class=4a

So $GET['display'] is "students", which might mean that class.php should query the database for the students in the class.
Which class? Well, $GET['class'] gives "4a", so presumably there is a class named "4a".

What if we wanted to know who is the teacher in charge of the class?
There might be:
class.php?display=teacher&class=4a

Lauj

Thank you very very much!! I'll give that a try and see what happened.

ljCharlie