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sam
sam

Reputation: 10094

POST inputed data to the query string - php

Im trying to use the query string to pass data from page to page, i understnad how to pass the fixed data, ie if you clicked a button that would send you to page A and add a fixed query to the string.

But im unsure about how to get data from an input and place that in the query string.

Ive tried several approaches but couldnt get any of them to work any idea how i would do this ?

form action="index.php" method="post" id="myform">
    <input type="text" name="text" id="link" placeholder="Paste" />

    <?php printf("<a class='btn btn-large btn-block btn-primary insert' href=\"about.php?url=%s\">%s</a>", $url, 'Insert'); ?> 
</form>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1591

Answers (1)

Josh Balcitis
Josh Balcitis

Reputation: 498

You could try something like this

HTML

<form action="doWhatever.php" method="post" id="myForm">
  <input type="text" name="text" id="text" placeholder="Put your text here" />
  <input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="enter" />
</form>

PHP (doWhatever.php)

<?php
  $input = $_POST["text"];
  header("Location: goWherever.php?" . http_build_query(array('text' -> $input)));
?>

I am assuming you want to load in a special way based on want the user inputs. And if that is the case might I suggest you use session variables instead of GET variables

Like this...

PHP (doWhatever.php)

<?php
  session_start();
  $_SESSION["input"] = $_POST["text"];
  header("Location: goWherever.php");
?>

HTML (goWherever.php)

<?php
  session_start();
  if($_SESSION["input"] == 'foobar'){
    //load the page one way
  }
  else{
  //load the page some other way
  }
  ?>

Upvotes: 1

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