[SOLVED] Setting a title in a form post

[jib]

I'm stumped, I am no PHP expert instead learning as I go. But I have a problem which I was unable to any answer for in all my net searching.

 

Basically I have a browsing page with a bunch of entries that just shows the title of the entry. Now each title is also a link to a page with more information. To do this I passed the ID of the entry to the url of the next page.

 

Ie

 

moreinfo.php?100 (100 being the id)

 

The on the moreinfo page i use the get command to...get the title and the search the database again for that entry so I can show all the information about that entry.

 

NOW the problem is I decided to create like a favorites thing, similar to ebays watch this item. Now for this I created a new table to store the username and entry ID but when I click the button to submit that. I lose my url and it just reverts to moreinfo.php which as a result clears the other information on the page because there is no ID in the url.

 

How can I submit the form but whilst doing so maintain the url?

 

Any help would be awsome, I don't wanna ditch this function because I couldn't manage to make it.

[MadTechie]

not sure i have read this correctly but i think you are saying

you go to a form with some GET's and then submit that form thus lossing the GETs,

 

now you could use sessions or just add some hidden fields into the form

ie

<input name='name' type="hidden" value="<?php echo $_GET['name']; ?>">

[Xurion]

Wouldn't that need to be page.php?name=bob

[jib]

yeah i tried a few hidden values but none of them seemed to work

 

basically to give you an idea on the browse page i use this

 

print "<tr><td width=400><a href=\"moreinfo.php?title=$ID\">$Title</a></td><td align=right><a>$converteddate</a></td></tr>";

 

so it passes the id to the url of the next page

 

so it will look like this

 

http://localhost/site/moreinfo.php?title=2

 

but when you click the button to post the data the url reverts to

 

http://localhost/site/moreinfo.php

 

so what i need is for it to post but not change the url or a way to set it back

 

also just fyi, I don't know how to use sessions. Just learning as I go.

 

 

[MadTechie]

in the form change the action to

<?php
echo "<form action=\"?title={$_GET['title']}\">";
//or
?>
<form action=\"?title=<?php echo $_GET['title']; ?>\">

 

[jib]

the first code gives a strange answer

 

moreinfo.php?submit=Mark+as+Interested

 

I really don't understand how it got that, (Mark as Interested is the name of the button)

 

The second gave url not found

[MadTechie]

seams your using submit and not title,

can you post the form (in # code tags)

[jib]

<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>" method="post">
      <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Mark as Interested" />
</form>

*code with default submit php

did you want the php code that relates to the submission?

[jib]

I sort of tried to change things along the lines of what you gave,

 

changed the name to title and set the value to the ID instead of mark as interested (well was trying, didn't quite get it)

 

but I noticed after using the first solution that the information wasn't being entered into the table

 

 

[MadTechie]

try this

<form action="<?php echo "{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}?title={$_GET['title']}"; ?>" method="post">
      <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Mark as Interested" />
</form>

 

[jib]

IT WORKS!

 

please have my babies!

 

thanks

[MadTechie]

LOL ,

 

 

can you click solved please to close this