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sam
sam

Reputation: 3

Passing and retrieving a URL variable

I am trying to pass and retrieve a variable from one page to another. When i run the page i'm getting the error 'URL not found'. So im guessing my variable hasn't been passed to the page.

When i click on the pages edit.php and delete.php the corresponding url is being displayed. i.e edit.php?id=1, edit.php?id=2 etc. I have tried a number of different things but can't seem to resolve this issue.

Here is the source code:

First Page (The links):

$ads_id = $row ["ads_id"]; //Value retrieved from database and stored in local variable

<a href="delete.php?id=' . $ads_id . '">

<a href="edit.php?id=' . $ads_id . '">

edit.php

if (isset($_GET['id'])) {

$ads_id = $_GET['id'];

}
else

 {

  echo "URL not found";
 }

Upvotes: 0

Views: 845

Answers (3)

SuperNoob
SuperNoob

Reputation: 392

I think the problem with your code is that it doesn't have the php opening and closing tag

it should look like

<?php 
$ads_id = $row["ads_id"]; //Value retrieved from database and stored in local variable
?>

<a href="delete.php?id=<?php echo $ads_id; ?>">

<a href="edit.php?id=<?php echo $ads_id; ?>">

Upvotes: 0

Baba
Baba

Reputation: 95103

You can try this ... you are having errors because of the single quote ' issue ... and since you would be adding multiple links this php function might help you ... 

$ads_id = $row ["ads_id"]; //Value form database source 

echo addLink("delete.php?id={$ads_id}","Link1") , "<br />";
echo addLink("edit.php?id={$ads_id}","Link1") , "<br />";

function addLink($url,$name)
{
    return sprintf("<a href=\"%s\">%s</a>",$url,$name);
}

Upvotes: 0

000
000

Reputation: 27227

$ads_id = $row ["ads_id"]; //Value retrieved from database and stored in local variable

<a href="delete.php?id=' . $ads_id . '">

<a href="edit.php?id=' . $ads_id . '">

Should look like this:

<?php
$ads_id = $row["ads_id"]; //Value retrieved from database and stored in local variable
?>

<a href="delete.php?id=<?=$ads_id?>">

<a href="edit.php?id=<?=$ads_id?>">

Upvotes: 1

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