Getting Info from a From to another Form

JabsBlog · July 3, 2006

Ok here is my Issue .. I am creating a site where people can submit an entry. After the entry is submitted it is approved by an 'admin' .. once the admin approves the entry it is writen to a database in a table called approved. My index file .. shown below .. calls to the database and displays the enteries in dec order.

Each entry is assigned a unique ID. I have created a form that will allow the user to post a child to the Parent post.

My problem is getting the Unique ID from my index page .. to my new form on the next page.

I have included the unique blog_id in a hidden field in my index page. but once I click submit .. my action page. will not display the blog_id of the item that was submitted. .. It will display the first entry in the database.

Is there a way to grab the ID of the post and get that information to the new table on the next page.

Index.php
[code]<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
function submit ( selectedtype )
{
document.childsubmit.submit() ;
}
</script>
</head>

<body>
<?php
include("db.php");
mysql_connect(localhost,$username,$password);
@mysql_select_db($database) or die( "Unable to select database");

$query = "SELECT * FROM approved ORDER by id DESC";

$result = mysql_query($query);

$num = mysql_numrows($result);

mysql_close();
?>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="ad">
<a href="index.php"><img src="images/header.jpg" alt="BlogLink" border="0"/></a>
<br /><img src="images/addemo.jpg"/></div>

<div id="addto">
<ul id="navlist1">
<li>Get the feed:</li>
<li id="active1"><a href="http://feeds.my.aol.com/add.jsp?url=http%3A//www.bloglink.com/rss.xml" id="current1">MyAOL</a></li>
<li><a href="http://fusion.google.com/add?feedurl=http://www.bloglink.com/rss.xml">Google</a></li>
<li><a href="http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss?url=http://www.bloglink.com/rss.xml">Yahoo</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.bloglink.com/rss.xml">Bloglines</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.bloglink.com/rss.xml"><img src="images/xml.gif" alt="xml" border="0" /></a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="navcontainer">
<ul id="navlist">
<li id="active"><a href="submit.php" id="current">Submit Story</a></li>

<li><a href="faq.html">FAQ</a></li>
<li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
<li><a href="contact.php">Contact Us</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="content">

<form action="myblog.php" method="post" name="childsubmit">
<?php $i=0;
while ($i < $num) {
$url = mysql_result($result,$i,"url");
$name = mysql_result($result,$i,"name");
$reason = mysql_result($result,$i,"reason");
$blog_id = mysql_result($result,$i,"blog_id");
$childpage = "$blog_id.php";
?>

<input type="hidden" value="<? echo $blog_id; ?>" name="child_id">
<input type="hidden" value="<? echo $name; ?>" name="title">

<div id="parent"><a href="<? echo $url; ?>"><? echo $name; ?></a></div>
<div id="snippet"><?php echo $reason; ?></div>
<a href="/articles/<? echo $childpage; ?>">See Who's Linking</a>
<a href="javascript:submit('submit')"><img src="images/link.gif" alt="submit your link" border="0" /></a>
<a href="aim:goim?message=<? echo $url; ?>"><img src="images/offline.gif" alt="IM this article" border="0" /></a><font size="2"></font>
<br /><br />
<?php $i++;
}
?>
</form>[/code]

mylog.php

The $child_id will only display the first entry of the database .. it will not grab the ID of the entry that was click on to submit a child.
[code]<?php

$title = $_POST['title'];
$child_id = $_POST['child_id'];

?>

<html>
<head>
<title>BlogLink :: Democratic Blogging</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles/index.css" />
</head>

<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="ad">
<a href="index.php"><img src="images/header.jpg" alt="BlogLink" border="0"/></a>
<br /><img src="images/addemo.jpg"/></div>

<div id="addto">
<ul id="navlist1">
<li>Get the feed:</li>
<li id="active1"><a href="http://feeds.my.aol.com/add.jsp?url=http%3A//www.bloglink.com/rss.xml" id="current1">MyAOL</a></li>
<li><a href="http://fusion.google.com/add?feedurl=http://www.bloglink.com/rss.xml">Google</a></li>
<li><a href="http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss?url=http://www.bloglink.com/rss.xml">Yahoo</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.bloglink.com/rss.xml">Bloglines</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.bloglink.com/rss.xml"><img src="images/xml.gif" alt="xml" border="0" /></a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="navcontainer">
<ul id="navlist">
<li id="active"><a href="index.php">Home</a></li>

<li><a href="faq.html">FAQ</a></li>
<li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
<li><a href="contact.php">Contact Us</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="content">
<div id="parent">
<h3>Submit your blog on this story</h3>
<strong>You are replying to: <? echo $title; ?></strong>
<form action="scripts/childAdd.php" method="post" name="childsubmit">
<table border="0" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<td align="right"><strong>Article URL:</strong></td>
<td><input type="text" name="url" size="70" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right"><strong>Article Name:</strong></td>
<td><input type="text" name="name" size="70" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right"><strong>Summary:</strong></td>
<td><textarea name="reason" rows="3" cols="70"></textarea>
<text type"hidden" name="child_id" value="<? echo $child_id; ?>">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td align="right"><input type="submit" value="Submit Article" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</div>
<p class="copyright">Copyright 2006 © BlogLink</p>
</div>
</body>

</html>
[/code]

to see what I am talking about .. goto .. http://test.imanass.com/BlogLink .. view the page source.. you will see that the first post will have a blog ID of .. 1965080227 .. however when I click the link to add a post to that .. the value of the child ID becomes the first post .. 933281352.
So my question is how can I get it to get the ID of the item I am clicking on ?

redarrow · July 3, 2006

look up sessions ok.

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