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Tony Ito
Tony Ito

Reputation: 111

How to send data to the next page in addition to a form?

How does one send additional data to the next page with php if there is already a form doing it? For example

<form action='blah.php?variable1=$var' method='post'>
 Example: <input type="text" name="example"><br>
</form>

Doesn't seem to direct to:

blah.php?variable1=thisVariable&example=thisExample

How would I go about this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 28

Answers (2)

Duane Lortie
Duane Lortie

Reputation: 1260

Assuming blah.php is in this same directory, suggest using ./ in front of the filename (not necessary, just suggested but the main problem is $var won't get it's value printed in your code. You can print it out with the short tag method, like this..

<form action='./blah.php?variable1=<?=$var?>' method='post'>

or, a plain PHP echo like this...

<form action='./blah.php?variable1=<?php echo $var;?>' method='post'>

Upvotes: 0

arkascha
arkascha

Reputation: 42925

The easiest approach is to hand over the variable as hidden value: 

<form action="blah.php" method="post">
    <input type="hidden" name="variable1" value="<?=$var?>">
    Example: <input type="text" name="example"><br>
</form>

For more complex situations you should use server side sessions to store such values, though.

Upvotes: 2

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