[RESOLVED] Difficulty with form

[cpc]

I have a need to create a form that will receive data from a URL, display that data in a page and allow it to be submitted to an e-mail address and written to a .csv file.

It is to be used to extract data from one system and provided to the form via URL (completed), present it to an individual to be verified and then collected in a data file.

This will need to be done without the use of a database or connection to the DB that contains the original data.

For the viewer it should be a three step process: click the link, verify the data, submit the form.

I have created the form already but I am having trouble getting it to work correctly. By playing with $GET, $POST and $_REQUEST I can get various parts to work but not all together.

Is $_GET the only method of supplying the URL variable to the script? Perhaps I need to start from scratch.

Thank you for any and all help that can be provided.

[djjjozsi]

How about sending a csv file with the exported data? you generate a random string, and store it in a table. You put this random string into the url, on the landing page, the php program calls a file_get_contents() function to the first server, using this keypass string and gets the contents.

you can build a form where you select all the information to pass to the next page,
and $_POST is a good way to read them.

if you can , do not pass values in URL , becouse you need to encode the special characters.

if you make a variable visible in a form, be careful with the html codes:
if i pass a variable using a $_POST["name"] variable:

My address is "hun"

<input name="name" value="<?php echo $_POST["name"] ?>">
this will break my html form.
<input name="name" value="My address is "hun"">

to solve it, use a function:

<?php
function is_then($var)
{
return isset($_POST["$var"]) ? htmlspecialchars($_POST["$var"]): '' ;
} 
?>
<input name="name" value="<?php is_then("name"); ?>">