Question

One page in my root directory, displays text collected from the database.

This page has a uniquely generated ID. A link on this page redirects the user to another page in the same root directory. On this second page I need to collect the specific ID (/URL) from the previous page, and use it as a variable.

How can I do this as smooth as possible?

Can I “send” the ID value from one page to the other?

Answer 1

In the page you’re linking from..

<href="http://www.yoursiteurl.com/yournewpage.php?passedInId=<?php echo $theIdToCarryOver; ?>">link text</a>

In yournewpage.php, cast your value to an integer to make sure the receiving page always gets an integer

$id = intval($_GET['passedInId']);