Passing variables to fill a form

[coool]

Hi

 

anyone knows how can I send variables from a php page to a form - i need to fill the form with these variables  ?

 

maybe using (the process of passing variables to other pages - through url)

 

but how can i assign them to form variables ?

[Wuhtzu]

I'm not sure I understand you 100% correctly, but here is what I think you wanna do:

 

page.php

<?php
//These might come from a database or something
$name = "Firstname Lastname";
$age = "1337";
$email = "an@email.com";
?>

<form action="" method="">
    <input type="text" name="name" value="<?php echo $name;?>">
    <input type="text" name="age" value="<?php echo $age;?>">
    <input type="text" name="email" value="<?php echo $email;?>">
</form>

 

This will fill out the form with the values of $name, $age, $email. If you have the variables defined on page1.php and want to use them on page2.php I think you should use sessions:

 

page1.php

<?php
//Start a session
start_session();

//These might come from a database or something
$name = "Firstname Lastname";
$age = "1337";
$email = "an@email.com";

//Store the vars as session vars
$_SESSION['name'] = $name;
$_SESSION['age'] = $age;
$_SESSION['email'] = $email;

?>

 

page2.php

<?php
sessioin_start()
?>

<form action="" method="">
    <input type="text" name="name" value="<?php echo $_SESSION['name'];?>">
    <input type="text" name="age" value="<?php echo $_SESSION['age'];?>">
    <input type="text" name="email" value="<?php echo $_SESSION['email'];?>">
</form>

 

 

[coool]

 

but mine isn't only text ! .. I have select statements..

 

 

page.php

<?php
$items = "item1,item3";
?>

<a href="form.php?selectedItems=<?=$items?>" >View Form<a/>

 

 

form.php

<form name="selectionform" method="post" action="">

              <select  size="3" multiple name="selectedItems[]">
                <option value="item1">Item1</option>
                <option value="item2">Item2</option>
                <option value="item3">Item3</option>
              </select>

              <input type="submit" value="View Result">
</form>

 

What I'm looking for is when user click "View Form" link, they get the for filled with items - i.e some items are alreay selected ---- then if the user want to deselect one of the items or select more items he should able to do that.. !

 

to check the result: - in form.php

if($_POST)
echo implode($_POST['selectedItems'],",");

 

so what do you think ? having $_GET inside form.php will solve the problem ! .. but I've tried it and it doesn't work.. I didn't know how to handle the array and nothing selected !! .. can you take my sample code and add to it the proper things so it will work ! please