Hi Guys,

In a Form I'm using the following field;

<input type="Text" name="quant<? echo $intID; ?>" maxlength="2" size="2" value="<? echo $intQuant; ?>">

it is used in a shopping cart, so more than one of these can exist in the form.
in ASP i've previously used 'request.form("quant"&intID&"")' to retreive the form value. however, in PHP i haven't had any success yet.

Could someone help me out?

Thanks

HammR

Ah... you need $_GET and $_POST

page1.php

<form method=post action=page2.php>
<input type="Text" name="quant<?php echo $intID; ?>" maxlength="2" size="2" value="<?php echo $intQuant; ?>">
</form>

page2.php

<?php
if(isset($_POST['quant' . $intID])) $textbox = $_POST['quant' . $intID];
?>

This example uses $_POST

When the form method is GET then use $_GET

http://www.php.net/variables.predefined

HTH,

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Snib,

However, the code you provided is working when using PHP version 4.3.4 (on a Windows machine), but does not work on PHP 4.0.6 (on a linuxserver).
any solution for this? besides upgrading..;)

Thanks!

Hmm... try replacing $_GET and $_POST with $HTTP_GET_VARS and $HTTP_POST_VARS

Not sure this will work, but its worth a try!:)

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<><

It will work as long as you guarantee that HTTP_xxx_VARS is in scope. These variables are *NOT* superglobal arrays; that is, they need to be explicitly imported into function scope if you're using them within a function.

You can do this via the global keyword:

function foo()
{
    global $HTTP_POST_VARS;

    echo $HTTP_POST_VARS['quant'];
}


Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/