How to call an old value?

[cromagnon]

Hi Freaks

 

I am a newbie, and have a simple problem.

 

I just made a form and an action wich calls a new page "site.php". On this new page I call the value in the form by get:

 

<?

$websted=$_GET['websted'];

echo "<p><b>$websted</b></p>";?>

 

Everything is ok, but now I like the user to fill out another form wich call a new page "site1.php"

 

On this new page I like to call both the formvalue from the first page and the formvalue from the second page.

 

<?

$websted=$_GET['websted'];

                          $hi=$_GET['hi'];

echo "<p><b>$websted</b></p>";

echo "<p><b>$hi</b></p>";?>

 

BUT it seems impossible since the first value seems to be forgotten!

 

How can I call both the first and the second formvalue? How can I transfer the first value to the last page?

 

Thanks!

 

Cromagnon

 

 

[monkeytooth]

The easiest way to transfer over is take your

 

<?
      $websted=$_GET['websted'];
echo "<p>$websted</p>";?>

 

and make a hidden form value to submit with the form on site.php into site1.php in other words in your case..

 

<input type="hidden" name="websted" value="<?php echo $websted; ?>">

 

make sure its in between your

<form></form>

 

and should transfer onto site1.php no problem.. just call it the same way you did with site.php and make sure its a form field on site.php is a diffrent name from your hidden value

[cromagnon]

Thank you!

 

I was actually trying to do that, but I just tried like this value=$websted, wich did not work.

 

Thanks again

[papaface]

The easiest way is to use sessions:

session_start();
$_SESSION['hi'] = $_GET['hi'];

Then later on

session_start();
echo $_SESSION['hi'];

easy

[revraz]

I would use a session also.

[Daniel0]

Just noticed you use a GET value and a variable in Danish, so here is a word of advice: It's better to have your variable and function names in English. They must be named like this (regex): ^[_a-zA-Z][_a-zA-Z0-9]*$ (i.e. it must only contain the letters a through z (upper case and lower case), an underscore and digits and it must start with an underscore or one of the before mentioned letters) and at some point you might need to use a name where the allowed characters are not sufficient.

[monkeytooth]

Session would be better deffinately agree'd but only reason I mentioned it the way is some service providers either block sessions, or make them a pain in the arse to do.. or atleast with experiances I have had in the past, my way is a work around but not nessisarily the best in this senerio, if you have session ability

[revraz]

I haven't seen any of them block them, but I have seen the PHP.INI setup incorrectly by them.

 

Session would be better deffinately agree'd but only reason I mentioned it the way is some service providers either block sessions, or make them a pain in the arse to do.. or atleast with experiances I have had in the past, my way is a work around but not nessisarily the best in this senerio, if you have session ability

[monkeytooth]

yahoo, and even godaddy blocked them for awhile I dunno bout anymore.. but did.. IXWebhosting for awhile to..

[papaface]

Session would be better deffinately agree'd but only reason I mentioned it the way is some service providers either block sessions, or make them a pain in the arse to do.. or atleast with experiances I have had in the past, my way is a work around but not nessisarily the best in this senerio, if you have session ability

Then people hosted by companies like that should switch because using hidden form fields is a potential security risk.