[RESOLVED] Please tell me I am doing something silly!

[Jim_Hope]

I am having to learn some php to do what I thought was a very simple task.

I want to create a general purpose form, that I want to pass a variable to from a URL statement.

For example ..form.php?title=My+title&page=12

From what I have gathered from various sites (found via google), I should now have two variables in my php program called $title and $page

So if in my php program I want to display those fields e.g. <h1><?php echo $title; ?></h1> why don't they display?

I hope you guys are laughing at me, 🙂 and can tell me what simple mistake I am making.

Thanks

[rbblue8]

hey man.

First off everyone is new to something at some point. so no need to worry about this.

in the page that you want to echo $title and echo $page you need to first define them. this will only work if the echo $title and echo $page is the page that the ?title=My+title&page=12 is pointing to. In this case.. put the following code in forum.php (because you have form.php?title=My+title&page=12 which means to me you are looking for echo $title and echo $page to show up in forum.php)

$page=$_GET['page'];
$title=$_GET['title'];

the $_GET command gets what's been posted to that page by the referning page. Which is what you are doing in this case.

let me know if that works out for ya

[Jim_Hope]

Brill. That Works

Checked over some of the pages I had looked for help, and none had mentioned what you told me.

Works Fine

Thanks again

[rbblue8]

np..

can you please mark your thread as resolved?

just click on thread tools.. and select makr thread as resolved.