[SOLVED] Need some help with a form. Noob question.

[nastynate604]

Hello All,

 

I am very new to coding with PHP and I need some help with a form that I am creating.  It is very basic, and all I need to do is get an email address and a password from a form and then pass that information in a link.  The link looks like this:

 

http://my.site.com/validation.aspx?E=$email&P=$password&ID=ADRCOLTC

 

I have my form set up as a "GET" and the action is set up with the link above.  When the person hits submit on the form however, the email address is passed as:  name%40email.com  instead of name@email.com in the link.

 

If anyone can help me out with this or give me some suggestions it would be much appreciated.  I know this is a rather noobish question but I can't seem to find the answer anywhere.  I found a couple of functions urldecode(); and rawurldecode(); but I can't seem to get those to work and i'm not sure if that is where I need to be looking.

 

Thanks!

 

 

[genericnumber1]

If you're passing a password, you should be using POST. You don't want someone's password popping up in the URL!

 

That said, if you were to stick with using GET (you shouldn't), you can use $_GET['E'] to retrieve name@email.com, the %40 is just the url encoding of the @ symbol.

[JustLikeIcarus]

That is the correct way an "@" symbol should be passed in the url.  Then urldecode($_GET['E']) should return it to an "@".

[nastynate604]

The link only works when the email address (with an @ sign) and the password are visible in the link.  I know that sounds incredibly wrong but that is how that link works.  At what point within the code do I need to use:  urldecode($_GET['email']);

 

Would I use something like this?:

 

$email = urldecode($_GET['email']);

 

Within the Form?  Outside the form?  Contained within <? ?> in the actual action link?  Thank you for your replies!

[mikesta707]

depends on how your code is set up. the page where you get the $_GET variables, and process them should be where you use url_decode. why don't you just use Post?

[JustLikeIcarus]

You actually shouldnt even need the urldecode() function.  The $_GET['E'] value should have the normal "@" already.  $_GET is a php array containing values passed as a query string.  So whatever you have that needs to use the submitted email just set <? $email = $_GET['E']; ?>  This would be after the form is submitted.

[nastynate604]

Ok, let's forget $_GET for a moment.  What if I wanted to do this with $_POST variables instead.

 

Here is my form:

 

<form id="form1" name="form1" method="POST" action="http://site.site.com/validation.aspx?E=$email&P=$password&ID=ADRCOLTC">

          <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="0">

            <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5">

              <tr>

                <td colspan="2" align="center"><strong>Existing Users Please Sign In Below:</strong></td>

              </tr>

              <tr>

                <td align="right">email address:</td>

                <td><input type="text" name="email" value="" /></td>

              </tr>

              <tr>

                <td align="right">password:</td>

                <td><input type="password" name="password" value="" /></td>

              </tr>

              <tr>

                <td colspan="2" align="center"><input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" /></td>

              </tr>

            </table>

            <tr>

              <td colspan="2" align="center"> </td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

              <td> </td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

              <td colspan="2" align="center"> </td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

              <td colspan="2" align="center"><p>Please verify your email and password is correct or you<br />

              may be taken to the incorrect login page.</p></td>

            </tr>

        </form>

 

How would I be able to pass the $email and $password fields from the form into the Link that is contained in the Form Action?  I know there is some PHP involved i'm just not sure where to put it.. help!

[mikesta707]

no thats impossible. the variables you are trying to access don't actually exist when you are trying to access them. what exactly are you trying to do? url_decode() theoretically should work, depending on what you are trying to do.

 

However, you could really just set the action to http://site.site.com/validation.aspx and instead of using the $_GET array, use the $_POST array on that aspx page

[nastynate604]

Hmm. Ok i'm not really sure if i'm explaining it correctly then.

 

You see the form i've created.  I need to take the info that is put into the Email field, and the Password field and when the form is submitted I need that information added to the link under the form action=""  So where it says ?E=&P=  I need the E= to use what is in the email field and the P= to use what is in the password field.

 

I do not have access to the ASP file on the other end, all I am doing is passing what is contained in the variables to that action link and the .ASPX page is supposed to do the rest.

 

Does this make sense?

[JustLikeIcarus]

Oh. Well thats normal get functionality.  Just change your forms method="get" and change

 

<input type="text" name="email" value="" />

To

<input type="text" name="E" value="" />

 

And

<input type="password" name="password" value="" />

To

<input type="password" name="P" value="" />

[nastynate604]

Ok.. so now i'm back to the original issue.  When it passes the Email address to the link, it puts it as name%40email.com instead of name@email.com... how do I get around that?

[nastynate604]

I fixed it!  something just didn't seem right with the link.  So what I did was set up the ID as a hidden value in the form and changed the Action link to just say ID= at the end.

 

This worked!  it sends all the info through flawlessly.  Thanks for all of your help!