cannot pass parameters between forms

deerebuck · February 14th, 2004, 07:11 PM

I run a linux red hat 9 server and am attempting to pass parameters between pages and nothing works. I am now down to the text.html and text.php with no luck. In fact none of the examples out of the book or off the web work. I know its me or my PHP setup. Can someone help the dummie here?
For your convenience:
Text.html
<HTML>
<HEAD></HEAD>
<BODY>
<FORM METHOD=GET ACTION="text.php">
Who is your favourite author?
<INPUT NAME="Author" TYPE="TEXT">
<BR>
<BR>
<INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT>
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Text.php
<HTML>
<HEAD></HEAD>
<BODY>
Your favorite author is:
<?php
echo $Author;
?>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Thanks in advance for your help!
Ron;)

reign · February 15th, 2004, 09:25 AM

Hi Ron,

I have the same problem and going through the history of topics found this suggestion from Nikolai.

http://p2p.wrox.com/archive/beginnin...2002-11/17.asp
http://p2p.wrox.com/archive/beginnin...2002-09/63.asp
http://p2p.wrox.com/archive/beginning_php/2003-02/3.asp
http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4017

I will work on it now and let you know if I got it to work.

Reign

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reign · February 15th, 2004, 09:57 AM

Changing the echo command to:

Your Favourite Author is:
<?php
echo $_GET['Author'];
?>

Did the trick on my server. (winxp / IIS)

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reign · February 15th, 2004, 05:12 PM

You can do the same thing with the $_POST['variable'];
statement. Now I've ran into some other problems with this problem, so right now I'm using a trick to declare a value in the beginning of my statements giving the name as they appear in the book. for example on page 117 my php code reads following:

<?php
$Question1 = $_POST['Question1'];
if ($Question1=="Lisabon") echo "You are Correct, Lisabon is the right Answer";
if ($Question1!="Lisabon") echo "You are incorrect, Lisabon is the right Answer";
?>

Note that there's a typo in the book with the second answer.
Hope this helps you.

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