Help With Varables

rkobi705

When ever i set a variablesand pass that varable to another page, i see this as the result: resultVARABLE=RESULT ie.

if $number is my variablesand i set it to 14, and i do a:

echo "|" . $number . "|";

I see |14number=14| why is that extra 14 in there before the Number?

This is a fresh install of PHP, on a new install of RH9.0

Thanks!!

sfullman

Are you using post or get to pass from page to page?

If you have page named mypage.php with this script:

<?php

echo "my name is $myname"

and you call it as mypage.php?myname=Sam+Fullman

.. it should show correctly.

If it doesn't show, you probably have globals turned off, in which case use:

<?php

echo "my name is ". $_GET[myname]";

New install of php, globals is off by default.

HTH
Sam

rkobi705

Well that fixed the passing of the varables from page to page..but i still have the same problem. I am not passing varables in the URL, i am just reading them from a php file.

Here is my code:

td colspan=2 width=60% align=left valign=top>
<form action="editer3.php" method="post">
<font size=2>Id number: 
<input type=text name=id size=1></td>
</tr><tr>
<td align=center><input type="submit" value="Submit"></td><td align=center><input type=reset value="Clear"></td><td align=center>
<a href="menu.html" target=bottom border=0><img src="cancelbtn.gif" border="0" align="center" hspace="0"></img></a></td>

WHen i click the submit button editer3.php should read the ID feild..it does but it shows the varable as 14number=14.

In editer3.php all i am doing is having an:

echo $id;

and i get 14number=14

I should just be getting 14

sfullman

ugh! EVer heard of troubleshooting? I honestly don't know. I wouldn't think a problem naming a field id but who knows.

Try putting name=id in quotes, i.e. name="id" in the input tag.

Next try another name and see if that works.

Finally, the receiving page should refence the variable as $_POST[id], make sure you're doing that.

<?php echo $_POST[id]?>

I wish I could help more.

Best,
Sam