Question

I have a foreach loop listing the unique codes as links:

<a href="#" class="charcoal_link" value="<?php echo $id_to ?>" style="line-height: 20px;" onclick="showMessageArea(this); return false;">
<?php echo $uniqueCode1?>
    <span class="pink_text"><?php echo $uniqueCode2?></span>
<?php echo $uniqueCode3?>
</a>
<input type="hidden" name="id" value="<?php echo $id_to ?>" />
<form id="message_area" style="display:none" method="post" action="<?php echo ADDRESS; ?>messageSent.php?id=<?php echo $id_to ?>">
    <tr>
        <td>
            <input name="message" type="textarea" rows="10" cols="20" value="<?php echo $message ?>" />
        </td>
        <td>
            <input name="Submit" type="submit" value="Send" />
        </td>       
    </tr>
</form>

the above is also in another form tag: <form name = "contacts" method="post">
the action part works fine but in messageSent.php i do:

var_dump($_POST);
var_dump($_GET);

and the output gives me:

NULL
array(1) { ["id"]=> string(2) "36" }

1. Where is “message”?
2. “id” contains the wrong id. It is not the id of the unique code I clicked on.

Answer 1

    <a href="#" class="charcoal_link" value="<?php echo $id_to ?>" style="line-height: 20px;" onclick="showMessageArea(this); return false;">
    <?php echo $uniqueCode1?>
        <span class="pink_text"><?php echo $uniqueCode2?></span>
    <?php echo $uniqueCode3?>
    </a>
 <form id="message_area" style="display:none" method="post" action="<?php echo ADDRESS; ?>messageSent.php?id=<?php echo $id_to ?>">
    <input type="hidden" name="id" value="<?php echo $id_to ?>" />

    <table>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <textarea name="message" rows="10" cols="20"><?php echo $message ?></textarea>
            </td>
            <td>
                <input name="Submit" type="submit" value="Send" />
            </td>       
        </tr>
    </table>
    </form>

You cannot have a form inside a form.. you must do them seperate or else in the same form….

I fixed the HTML markup for you