passing vars through hyperlinks

[levans]

Im trying to pass a value through a hyperlink like:

<a href = "linkhandler.php?value='lee' ">

is this the right syntax ???

Im just trying to GET the value

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Dont know if anyopne knows JSP well or not but...

i also tried this in JSP:

<a href = "linkhandler.jsp?value='lee' ">

and in linkhandler.jsp i have:

String firstName = request.getParameter("lee");

but when i print firstName its NULL

[vallette]

First of all you shouldn't put the value in single quotes. If they're a valid part of the value then they should be encoded.

Second, the JSP example you gave would get the value of a parameter named "lee", you're passing a parameter named "value" and giving it the value "lee" (or in your case the value 'lee') so it should be:
String firstName = request.getParameter("value");

To retrieve the value in your PHP script you'd use:
$lastname=$_GET['value'];

Hope this helps