Passing data with <a href....>

[RobertSubnet]

Greetings all.

 

I am using mysql_fetch_array() and a while loop to retrieve data from a MySQL database. The loop is also used to populate an associative array.

 

I would like to pass the retrieved data to another PHP script, preferably using an anchor tag with an href attribute. Is there a way to do this or am I stuck having to use a form/submit?

 

Thanks,

~Robert

[revraz]

You can pass with GET like

 

mypage.php?id=1

[bpops]

Depending on how much data, you can pass it via a GET in an <a href> tag, however, the best thing to do would be to get the information from the table again on the second page based on the criteria given to the first page.

 

Another option is to use sessions.

[pauleth]

There's definitely no reason why you can't pass values to another script via an HTML anchor tag, and use PHP GET to extract the values from the URL.  That method can get pretty messy though...

[RobertSubnet]

So lets say I have a URL:

 

\\mywebsite.com/firstpage.php

 

In the firstpage.php script, I have a variable, $variable = 10 and I want to pass the value (10) to another script, lets say secondpage.php. Would the link on firstpage.php look like this:

 

<a href = mywebsite.com/secondpage.php?variable = 10>Click Me</a>

 

Then to access the $variable value (10) on secondpage.php, I would code it as:

 

$variable_on_secondpage_php = $_GET['variable'];

 

Thanks again.

[bpops]

So lets say I have a URL:

 

\\mywebsite.com/firstpage.php

 

In the firstpage.php script, I have a variable, $variable = 10 and I want to pass the value (10) to another script, lets say secondpage.php. Would the link on firstpage.php look like this:

 

<a href = mywebsite.com/secondpage.php?variable = 10>Click Me</a>

 

Then to access the $variable value (10) on secondpage.php, I would code it as:

 

$variable_on_secondpage_php = $_GET['variable'];

 

Thanks again.

 

yup!

 

or to make sure the variable (whatever it is is passed),

 

<a href="mywebsite.com/secondpage.php?variable=<?php echo $variable; ?>">Click Me</a>

[RobertSubnet]

Great! Thanks again guys for your help!

 

~Robert

[jkewlo]

you might want to use the @$_POST on the next page to get your info