[RESOLVED] fetching strings with $_POST

[slightlyeskew]

Hey all!

This is a bit newbish, but why isn't my full string being passed from one script to another when I use $_POST?:o

//script 1
$x = 'hope this works!';

echo '<form action="testpost2.php" method="post">';
echo '<input type=hidden name= test_variable value='.$x.'>';
echo '<input type=submit value="Submit">';
echo '</form>';

//script 2

$x = $_POST['test_variable'];
echo $x;

This only displays "hope"

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks for your time.

-slight

[bradgrafelman]

You should make sure that your HTML is valid (hint: it isn't). For example, all HTML attributes' values must be quoted (either single or double quotes).

[slightlyeskew]

Doh. Thanks for the help brad. marking as resolved!

[slightlyeskew]

Actually I take that back. 😕

I plugged your solution in real quick, i.e. changing to:

//script 1 
$x = 'hope this works!'; 

echo '<form action="testpost2.php" method="post">'; 
echo '<input type=hidden name= test_variable value="$x">'; 
echo '<input type=submit value="Submit">'; 
echo '</form>'; 

But now the second script just outputs

$x

Alternatively, I enclosed the string in double quotes, $x = "hope this works!"; while keeping the original '.$x.' but that choice still results in an output which consists only of 'hope'

Could you espouse more on my error pls? Thanks for your time.

-slight

[bradgrafelman]

While this isn't related to your current error, note that you still have attributes whose values aren't quoted.

As for your error, you're currently echo'ing the HTML inside of a single quote delimited string. Variable interpolation doesn't occur in strings delimited with single quotes; see the [man]string[/man] manual page for more info/examples on that.