[SOLVED] How to MAKE the query string show up in the address bar?

[sd9sd]

When I enter a value into the form and press enter, the php file calls itself and the form value is sent as a query string. The problem is that the query string doesn't get displayed in the addressbar.

The strange thing is that when I used the same code earlier, it used to work. But ever since I've used a css file to change colour of the text, it stopped showing the query string. I don't think the css could have affected it, but I need the query string to be shown on the address bar like so: www.somesite.com/index.php?id=4

Any pointers?

 

This is the piece of form HTML code

<form name="form1" method="post" action="<TOONVALUEACTION>">
<span class="biglinks"># </span> 
<input name="toonValue" type="text" id="toonValue" size="6" value="<TOONVALUE>"> 
</form>

 

And this is the last part of the php that replaces the TOONVALUEACTION string:

if (file_exists("abc.html")) $template = implode("", file("abc.html"));
//---for the php file to call itself
$path = empty($_SERVER['PATH_INFO'])?$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']:$_SERVER['PATH_INFO'];

$id=$_POST["toonValue"];
if ($id=="") $id=$_GET["id"];

$template = str_replace("<TOONVALUE>",$id,$template);
$template = str_replace("<TOONVALUEACTION>",$path,$template);

echo $template;//displays the page

 

[markjoe]

use GET method, not POST method.

 

<form method='GET'  name...>

[DarkWater]

Use method="GET" instead.

[sd9sd]

erm..that's where the problem is. When I have a GET in the html, the query string shows up in the addressbar, but the toon does not get updated (which means that the toonValue isn't captured). So I changed the $_POST["toonValue"] to $_GET["toonValue"] and now the toonValue variable is captured, but the query string isn't shown in the addressbar.

[MasterACE14]

you can't show it in the address bar if its a $_POST

 

ACE

[sd9sd]

but it was not showing in the addressbar when it was a $_GET.

[markjoe]

The POST method passes the values in the headers, you will never see them in the address bar.

The GET method passes the values in the URL (address bar), you will always see them in the address bar.

 

When you access the variable, you must the corresponding name.

<form method="GET">

...

$var1=$_GET['var1']

[sd9sd]

oh...got it...placing the post before the get was the problem..I'll get back after attempting a solution.

[unkwntech]

It is possible to send both GET and POST by using method='*' so you could display the data in the address bar but still use the more secure POST method.

[.josh]

why would you want to do that?

[sd9sd]

Problem solved!!! Using GET in the form and in the PHP worked. Thanks markjoe!

 

why would you want to do that?

Lemme guess...if there are two parameters that have to be passed, and you want only one of them to be shown on the addressbar, you can receive one of them as $_GET['user'] and the other as $_POST['password']

 

Am I right unkwntech?

[blueman378]

not quite, as because it is sending ALL data through both methods both would be displayed in both sections,

 

one possible thing is you could use it as a very cheap way to make sure the info came from your form, how many forms out there would send data to your page using both get and post, so you check to see if the $_GET value == the $_POST value, if not then in proborably didnt come from your form, not veryt secure but a possiblility

[sd9sd]

that's true...it isn't secure...but nice to know that.

 

btw, anybody knows that maximum length of a variable that can be passed in a $_POST or $GET?