Question

Is it possible in php to include a forms value into the action redirection?

For example:

<form method='POST' name='Select' action='customer.php?CID=xxxxx'>
<input type=text width='5' name='searchVal' />

where xxxxx is the value entered into the form.

I’ve tried a number of different ways and I’m just not figuring it out! (Still sort of new to php) Any help would be appreciated.

It was looking like I would have to use $_POST and $_GET. A little more information might be in order… customer.php displays a list of customers in order by ID, name, etc. The user currently clicks on the customer ID that they want to display the details for. I’m trying to add a box where they can just enter the customer number to get to the details quickly, but I still want to have the listing displayed. From what it is sounding like, I will have to do this as two separate programs…is that true?

Answer 1

I got it finally! It’s actually very simple!

In the body of the code I put this:

<form action='#_SELF' method='GET' name='Projected'>
<input type=text size=5 name='CID' value='' title='Enter Customer number to display' />
<a href='#' onclick='document.Projected.submit();' title='Enter Customer number to display'>Go</a>

And at the top of the code I just do a:

if (!isset($_GET['CID'])) { ...

It works exactly the way I wanted it to!

Thanks everyone for the help! I appreciate it! (And I’m learning more and more about PHP everyday!)