Simple Help? Prod in the right direction?

Plato

How would I take variables from one page and display a new page using the variables?

For example one Page1 values are taken from a database - like name and age - and stored in the variables $name and $age. Then when the user clicks on a link on Page1 a new page is displayed - lets call it Page2 - showing these two variables. Maybe thats a bit of a crap description but I'm competly stumped :mad: maybe I need a break ...

:glare:

dagon

in the url like page2.php?age=22 (Variables From External Sources)
or in a session

Plato

I looked at that but i dont think itl work for what im wanting.

basicly php loops through the table and prints all the values in a list as links. When i click a link i want it to take me to a new page with extra information but i cant work out how to make the variables carry across to the new page? if you get me :/

dagon

so add the information to the link that they click (option 1) and retrieve it on page 2. perhaps you should show us some code.

BuzzPHP

<?php
// Page2.php
$name = $GET["name"];
$age = $GET["name"];
echo "Name: $name Age: $age";
?>

Navigate to your page in a browser with some vars:
http://localhost/dev/page2.php?name=Bob&age=28

BuzzPHP

But, be aware, this isn't the "correct" way todo things. If "name" and "age" are comming from a database, then you should send the key of the record and do another MySQL query to get the record information.

<?php
// Page2.php
$key = $_GET["key"];
// <<< Insert a "SQL SELECT * WHERE Id=$key" in here and get the record as array.
$name = $record["name"];
$age = $record["age"];
echo "Name: $name Age: $age";
?>

That way you dont expose private data via HTTP and it reduces the size of your table on page1 because you dont double up on record data.

jansky

or in other way you can store it in a session as an array

page1
$resultquery=query
$session['key'] = array(whatever your data is here );

page2
display data from session
foreach($Session['key'] as $data)
{
data display
}

Plato

Thank you dagon and BuzzPHP i got it to work 🙂

DaveRandom

IMHO you want to be doing this with AJAX...

dagon

He's going from page one to page two, in what way is ajax a help? If you don't want to change page but pass something to the server sure use ajax, but i don't see why you would in this case.

DaveRandom

if i am producing a list of links that provide more info, i use AJAX and a floating div. But then i do have a tendency to over engineer things, but it looks cool...

dagon

Form follows function

DaveRandom

True to a point, but if you write your server/client side stuff seperately, it is much more difficult to integrate them. Also, any GUI app, web or otherwise, should put user friendliness first, and page refreshes are neither user friendly nor network traffic friendly.
Using Ajax you can just send the data and process it into a displayable format client side, meaning that the "function" is vastly simplified and you can spend much more time on the form.

It's ironic that I have started this line of conversation, since i would describe myself as a form n00b at the end of the day, i suck badly at CSS...