How to receive a parameter?

[TonyKr]

I have a question that I believe is more related to OSC abstraction of PHP and not PHP itself. It appears possible to pass a variable through a link with POST, much like doing so with GET. I understand how to send the parameter using the tep_href_link function, but I do not see how you receive it and store it in a variable on the receiving php page.

 

 

How does one receive a parameter (and store it in a variable) which has been passed through a link to a page that is already set up as a method='POST'?

 

tep_href_link($page = '', $parameters = '', $connection = 'NONSSL', $add_session_id = true, $search_engine_safe = true)

 

Tony :o :o

[Guest]

Tony,

 

I am new to php and html, but as you dont have any other replies at the moment maybe this will help...

 

The file you open ( in action =xxxx.php) recieves the names of the input areas you create (using name=xxxx) in the input form as variables preceded with a $. eg if you create a an input area call myname, the receiving php code would pick this up as $myname when it is opened using the form action

 

Variables can be passed using URL links by adding (eg) ?myname=chris at the end of the link the page you open would refer to $myname as above, each variable is separated by a & . The tep_href_link function creates this html code for you, so you would add this as $page='xxxx?myname=chris', $parameters='',.....

 

Not sure if this helps, I'm sure somebody else can help more...

 

Chris.

[TonyKr]

Chris,

 

Thanks for the response.

 

It was my understanding that appending the URL (~.php?name=value) only works with method='GET'. Is this not the case? The file I am trying to modify is based on the file "account_edit.php" which uses method='POST'.

 

Thanks again.

 

Tony

[TonyKr]

Chris,

 

I believe I have fixed the problem. I created a separate variable for the 'method=get' parameter. Previously, I was using the same variable name (actually the same variable) that already existed for 'method=post'. I was not sure if one can use 'get' variables in the same file with 'post' variables, but appearently so. I will have to do more testing to make sure it is working properly.

 

Thanks again for your input.

 

Tony