Pass Values Using Header()

Nickosssss

HELLO,

I HAVE ONE FILE FIRST.PHP WHICH HAS SOME TEXT FIELDS IN A FORM....HOW CAN I PASS THE VALUE OF TEXT FIELDS INTO ANOTHER PHP FILE (SECOND.PHP) WHEN REDIRECTING WITH HEADER() ???

IT SEEMS THAT HEADER() OVERRIDES EVERYTHING AND THE VALUES INSERTED INTO THE TEXT FIELDS GET LOST....

THANK YOU

leatherback

First of all: Stop shouting. Capslock is considered very offensive.

Second: You need to post the form values to the page before they are available to the script

Third: By storing the values in a $_SESSION array, you can take variables from page to page.

Nickosssss

I am sorry about the caps....i was tring to figure out the way to do it and i didnt notice it. Sorry mate

well i have this code:

Once the top1 is verified that it exists on the database...the link goes to conftopic.php which i want to display the top1 inserted by the user....You told me to use _SESSION...well how do i use it?

Thank you

<?php
ob_start();
require ('main.php');

$page = new homePage();
$page -> content = '<p class = "content"> Student Registry </p> <br><br><br><br> ';
$page -> Display();

$top1 = $_POST['top1'];

if(!isset($top1))
{
$error_msg.="Please enter your<br>";

?>
<form class = "myform" action="" method="POST">
<div style = "position:relative; top:0%; left:35">
<font size = "4"><b> Please fill out the form </b></font><br><br>
<table border="1" cellpadding="7" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="600" id="AutoNumber1">
<tr>
<td rowspan = "4" width = "20%"><strong>Project Topic 1</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align = "right" width = "30%"> Topic Name: </td>
<td width = "50%"><input class = "input" type = "text" name = "top1" value = "<?echo $_POST['top1'];?>" maxlength = "100" size = "50"></td>
</tr>

					<tr>
						<td colspan = "4" align = "center"><input class = "button" type="submit" name="subButton" value="  > Register <  "></td>
					</tr>			
				</table>		
		</div>
	</form>

<?php

}
else
{
$mysql = new mysqli('localhost', 'root', '323232');
if(!$mysql)
{
echo 'Cannot connect to database.';
exit;
}

$selected = mysqli_select_db( $mysql, 'project' );
if(!$selected)
{
  echo 'Cannot select database.';
  exit;
}

$query = "select count(*) from topic where
           top_name = '$top1'";

 $result = mysqli_query( $mysql, $query );

if(!$result)
{
  echo 'Cannot run query.';
  exit;
}
$row = mysqli_fetch_row( $result );
$count = $row[0];


if ( $count > 0)
{

  header('location: ' . 'conftopic.php'); 
		exit(); 
}

else
{
	//echo 'no';
  header('location: ' . 'rejtopic.php'); 
		exit();
}

}
//$page -> Display2();
ob_end_flush();
?>

leatherback

Hi,

IU am not sure what is happening in the page where you are redirecting to, but wouldn't it be easier just to include the page, and do your processing right on the spot, without redirecting?

(Sorry: have seen sooo many people redirecting lately, that I wonder whether it is just a new gadget people have seen, and now all pick up. Maybe there is a perfectrly good reason for redirecting)

anyway.

Start each page in the series with
session_start();

Then..

$SESSION['VARNAME'] = $GET[YOURVARNAME];

In the next page you retrieven the value through:

$MyVarName = $_GET['VARNAME'];