posting a variable to another page

[MDanz]

I have a search engine.. when the results come... i want to post the $name variable from the result to reply.php

 

this is how i show results

 

echo '<table '.$margin.'>';
         
          while ($runrows = mysql_fetch_assoc($run)){
             
             $id = $runrows['id'];
             $name = $runrows['name'];
             $image = $runrows['image'];
             $hyperlink = $runrows['hyperlink'];
             $currency = $runrows['currency'];
             $info = $runrows['info'];
             $type = $runrows['type'];
             $rating = $runrows['rating'];
             $keywords =  $runrows['keywords'];



             echo '<td><tr>';
             echo "<a href='$hyperlink'><img src='http://www.u-stack.com/Stack.jpg'></a>";
             echo "</tr><font color=white><strong>  $name - $info - $rating <a href='rate.php?id=$id'><img src='http://www.u-stack.com/rate.jpg'></a></font>

             <a href='http://www.u-stack.com/reply.php?reply=$name&submit=reply' style='text-decoration: none'; >Reply</a>
             </center><br><br><hr size='1'></strong></td>";

          }
          echo '</table>';

 

 

i want to post the $name variable to reply.php

 

 

so in the reply.php textfield, i can set the value as $name and the name of the result appears in the textfield.

 

[Catfish]

try:

 

print($_GET['name']);

 

in reply.php

[MDanz]

didnt work...

[Catfish]

if you are going to reply.php?name=something

 

 

and you print($_GET['name']);

 

it should print "something" on the page (the value of 'name')

 

if you want it to be placed in the textarea in reply.php, you must print($_GET['name']); between the <textarea></textarea> tags like:

 

<textarea>

print($_GET['name']);

</textarea>

 

if it is not outputting the value of 'name', then the value of 'name' is not being passed to reply.php in the first place.

[MDanz]

hi thx for help..

 

returned the value '1' for some reason

 

on search.php this is how i use $name & reply.php...

<a href='http://www.example.com/reply.php?reply=$name&submit=reply'>Reply</a>

 

so the reply is associated with the name of the result from the search.

 

all the results have different names, so when a user replies, it uses the name(result) like a thread title.

 

and in reply.php

this is the text field i want the $name value in. I tried it this way originally then your way.

 

<input type='text' name='keywords' value='$name' <br>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Catfish]

when you hover the mouse over the link that is generated by the first page, does it have "name=something" in the URL? where "something" is a different value for each link? it sounds like the $name variable is not being passed correctly to reply.php