Question

How can you get the variables in URL to the next page in PHP?

The user is at the URL

 http://localhost/codes/index.php?ask_question&email=[e-mail]&passhash_md5=202cb962ac59075b964b07152d234b70

He sends a question and he goes to the following url where variables lost their values for some unknown reason.

http://localhost/codes/index.php?question_sent&email=&passhash_md5=

The following code is the code handle_a_new_question.php.

 $result = pg_prepare($dbconn, "query77", "INSERT INTO questions
     (body, title, users_user_id)
     VALUES ($1, $2, $3);");
 $result = pg_execute($dbconn, "query77", array($body, $title, $user_id));

 if(isset($result)) {
     $header = ("Location: /codes/index.php?"                                                                                                                                                           
         . "question_sent"
         . "&"
         . "email="
         . $_GET['email']             // this seems to be correct to me
         . "&"
         . "passhash_md5="
         . $_GET['passhash_md5']      // this seems to be correct to me too
         );
     header($header);
  }

Do you see any mistake in the code?

Answer 1

Try using session handlers in place of the GET variables. It does add a few keystrokes to your code but saves you a lot of headeache, in my point of view.