Question

I was thinking if it’s possible if – let’s say – I have a link when clicked will go to the said page but it will actually send a value to the target page. Let’s say the value is pageno.

Could i do it like

<a href="displaypage.html?pageno=1">

would that kind of thing work? I mean I want the php which would be something like this

<?php $pageno=$_POST['pageno']; ?>

and then some other process stuff. Going back, I want the php file to get the pageno that was set in the link. Is that possible?

Answer 1

It would be $_GET['var'], and yes, it is possible.

<a href="mypage.php?var=53">Click here</a>

mypage.php:

<?php
$var=$_GET['var'];
// ... process $var
// go to wherever
echo $var; // show the var
?>