Ok.

[aaadee]

I have created an Intranet. On the Intranet there is a Customer Search, where you can search the databases for our customers.

I have that working, and it gets all the customers that the search criteria meets.

BUT then i am wanting a Submit button with the value Submit and not $customer_name (because it looks rubbish and isnt good enough) or an image Submit value.

But i cant pass the $customer_name variable through to the next page. The only way i can do this is by putting the submit value in as $customer_name but this makes the page untidy.

If i put an image submit in and a <input type=\"hidden\" value=\"$customer_name\" name=\"customer_name\"> it only sends the of the customer's details for some reason!

THATS ONLY THE FIRST PART OF THE QUESTION.

Once i am in there, there is a page, with tabs at the top of the page which are linked to different pages in the same folder.

How do i keep the same variable so i can see the same customers details when click on the tab!

ie

Search for

Joe Bloggs Company. Submit Joe Bloggs Company,

Get the details for Joe Bloggs Company.

Then when i click the other tabs on the page, it comes back with the Joe Bloggs Details.

Please try and help, because this is a php problem that i have been trying to solve for a long time, and never been able to solve.

Thanks a LOT in advance.

Adam

[tomhath]

The hidden fields should do what you want. There must be some other bug(s) in the code that's messing it up.

I assume you are using Javascript at the client end, it sounds like the problem is in there someplace; try viewing the source from the browser and posting the snippet that doesn't work right.

[bastien]

Do you want a SUBMIT button for each result of the search? If you have more than one result for a search then you will need some method of detecting which customer your user is after. You could add a radiobutton to the page to allow the user to select only one customer (remember to code to activate the button if there is only one result, so that the user doesn't have to click the button to make it go)

Use PHP to dynamically create the radiobutton and assign if the value of the clientID that is unqiue to the customer, thereby passing the clientnumber to the next page and pulling out what ever detail is needed for the that page.

hth

Bastien

[bastien]

the tabs are all on the same page right?, just using the tabs to show / hide the layers...

Place the clientID in a hidden field and it wil stay active for the remaining pages and you can pass back and forth to other pages.

hth
bastien

[Anon]

What about sessions?