[Resolved] post variables but not on URL...?

[sturoy]

Hi,

I am trying to sort out my login script for a site... however, I am not sure how I am going to get my variables to the next page for them to be verified....

I do not want to use a <form>, as I don't want to use the normal 'Submit' button... I have a funky button that changes colour and the works, so I want to use that with an <a href=> (unless someone can tell me how to do a form that can use any sort of button!?!)

So, I could do a bit of an <a href='whatever.php?username='me'> type affair, but I don't want someone's username and password to ever be displayed on the URL!!

Any ideas from anyone? Many thanks....

[dcav]

I recommend you to use post with a submit button inside a form.
Your funky button could be done in CSS.

ex:
input {
background: #FF6600 url(funky.gif) no-repeat 0;
color: #FFFFFF;
font-family: Verdana;
font-size: x-small;
/ equals FUNKY button! /
}

If your button is so funky that it can't be done in CSS, then another way to pass vars is by using SESSION.

Check it out at www.php.net

[sturoy]

OK... I'm afraid I'm a bit new to all this.... so how would I then be able to use the funky.gif as the submit button? I'm guessing that is all that it is, so that it works just like a normal form (which would be perfect)...

Cheers....

[dcav]

By using CSS, you are overriding the default style for each elements within your browser.

If you look at my code above, you would see that I included "funky.gif" in the property "background".

Also if you don't want to use forms, you could use SESSIONS, which is not too different from POST.

[dcav]

I created a little example that is similar to the code I used above, but I created a class so that you could see the difference. It is always recommended you specify a class for this kind of stuff.

http://www.sugoidesign.com/testing2.php

Just look at the source code of that page.
Good luck 🙂

[sturoy]

Gottya.

Cheers for that, I'll see if I can get it done....

[sturoy]

Thanks for all your help... I looked into the options you suggested, but, not being much of a guru of css, I couldn't really work much out... was a bit concerned, as my funky button is only funky as it has an 'onMouseOver' setting...

Anyway, I have found that I can actually set the submit button to just be a gif that I have simply in html. For those of you that are interested, here's what it is.... (forgive me for putting html solutions in a php forum!!)

<form action="nextpage.php" method="post">
<input name="custid" type="text" value="username">
<br>
<input name="custpwd" type="password" value="password">
<input type="image" src="images/go.gif" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('Image3231','','images/go_f2.gif',1)" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" alt="go" name="Image3231" width="14" height="10" border="0" align="right" id="Image3">
</form>

Hope this might help some people.