[SOLVED] How to send a variable when sending a form

[dink87522]

A user fills out a couple of text fields and the form is submitted and I use $_POST to get those answer's. What I want to do is to send a variable (i.e. $dummy) from that form page to the page which will process the form (both are php). How would I go about this? I tried using a hidden text field although this did not work.

[wildteen88]

Post here the code that didn't work.

[dink87522]

<input type="hidden" name="result" value="$rnd"/>

[grunshaw]

A hidden field should work fine, but it would help to see your code so we can see how you have defined your variable, but generally this is how you would do it. I dont know what your variable does so i'll assume it holds a static value like an email address.

 

<?
$email="[email protected]";
?>
<form action="nextpage.php" method="post" name="form1">
Your Name: <input type="text" name="name" value="" /><br />
Your Email: <input type="text" name="useremail" value="" /><br />
Comments: <textarea name="comments"></textarea>
<input type="hidden" name="email" value="<? echo $email ?"><br />
<input type="submit" name="send" value="Send">
<input type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset">
</form?

Then to capture it on the nextpage.php

<?
$name=$_POST['name'];
$useremail=$_POST['useremail'];
$comments=$_POST['comments'];

// This is your hidden field
$email=$_POST['email'];

?>

 

That should do you!

[dink87522]

Thanks Grunshaw, that worked exactly like I wanted. I wasn't using PHP to echo the variable.