using get info to jump within a php page

willsteele

I've got a calculator that users enter data into. Upon submitting the tables calculate various values. The problem I am having occurs when people try to use links to jump to a specific section (using div's with ID's). The data from the original submission gets dumped. Now, I was able to work around this with the original form fields using echo and get. However, it doesn't work for the links. Below is the link description. It jumps to the div tag fine, but the data is not transferred.

newcalculatorlayout.php?hour=<?php $GET['hour'];?>&minute=<?php $GET['minute'];?>&second=<?php $_GET['second'];?>&Input=Submit+Query#ld

My main notion is that the data comes from within a form and cannot be taken out of that area, but I am not 100% about that.

Weedpacket

The data is not transferred where? From the form back into the script, or from the script back into the form? If you're just moving around in a page then a simple "href="#id" link is all that's needed.

No, a form's fields won't be filled with query string data just because it was there in the link; the form fields would have to have their values set directly.

willsteele

WP wrote: The data is not transferred where? From the form back into the script, or from the script back into the form? If you're just moving around in a page then a simple "href="#id" link is all that's needed.

No, a form's fields won't be filled with query string data just because it was there in the link; the form fields would have to have their values set directly.

I got the form values to set by using echo in the text boxes. That works fine. I can't get the values to append to the get string by echoing outside the form. I guess I was asking whether echoing values from within a form can be passed outside the form. If not, what's a work around?

Weedpacket

It's still not clear what you're asking. What do you mean by "echo outside the form" or "echo from within a form"?