I have a situation where I have a PHP page that is mixed with php and html throughout. because of this mixed format, when I try to tun my function to create thumbnails of images, the function fails to operate properly, and instead of displaying the image, it displays the ascii characters. If I put the function as it's own php page, I can set the script to a specific image and it will operate properly when the child page (b.php) is called from the parent page (a.php). This child page is supposed to be a generic process, and that is why I tried to create the function at beginning. My problem now, is passing a variable from a.php to b.php so that I can make b.php generic for all images as they arise. I have tried setting variables as global, and calling with the $GLOBALS['xxxxxxxx'], but this does not pass the variables between A.PHP and B.PHP I tried using the HTML $_POST variable call, but this seems to only work with an form input from HTML, and this is not acceptable. Is there a way to define a variable in HTML without using the <input> and having it pass to the php page?

Please help

Brian

Hi

Didn't exactly understand your description, but if you have a php script which is displaying images, normally something like this is good:

<img src="images.php?id=5">

And then in images.php, you use $_GET['id'] to find out which image you should display.

Cheers

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Thank you ever so much. At first, the solution you presented failed miserably, unil I found an error inmy syntax, and then viola... it worked. I am stillvery new to PHP.. thanks for the help

Brian

thanks so much for this. I have been looking for this answer for a long time.

Lesley

thanks so much for this really simple answer. i was plagued with this problem since i picked up my first book, "php, apache, mysql web development"!

However, $_GET didn't work for me, but $_REQUEST did.