[RESOLVED] using query string to pass variables

[rlee923]

Hi,

I do understand you can use get, post and session(maybe cookie as well?) to pass the variables.

But I would like to know whether you can just create url manually, without having a submit button to generate the url in a form. Because I if I do this in a form it will always direct to only one webpage.

What I want to do is create multiple links which could link to different pages,(not a single page) on just one form, so each link will direct to differnt page, with variables' values specified(set).

I tried to search for a function which does this job on google, but I couldn't find it.

Another question is, once the target page sees this url, can we retrieve the values nicely? Can this be done? If so, help me on this please.

Thanks very much.

[NogDog]

Unless I'm misunderstanding the question, all you need to do is build a query string for your link URL, e.g.:

printf("<a href='some_page.php?var1=%s&amp;var2=%s'>link text</a>\n",
       urlencode($var1), urlencode($var2));

The receiving page would then access those values as $GET['var1'] and $GET['var2'].

[rlee923]

Yeap I did figure it out yesterday after some trial and error. Thanx a lot!