you can also make it a hidden form variable that is updated dynamically when a 'staff' member is clicked before form subimmion. generated staff link: <a href="javascript:sendForm(<?echo $staffID;?>);"> javascript: function sendForm(staffID) { document.myform.staffID.value = staffID; document.myform.submit(); } On 1/17/06, Bing Du <du_bing@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > Here is what I want to accomplish. Query the backend database and > generate a page listing all the staff members in table format that has > name, title, phone and office address. Staff name should be a link. > Clicking the link should query the database again and use the > information retrieved (e.g. projects, educations, etc.) to generate a > page for each staff member. A staff list page can be generated pretty > easily. > > Now my question is how to keep the staffID (although it is not shown on > the staff list page, but is queried along with name, title, etc.) so > that when a staff name is clicked, his/her staffID will then be used to > query the DB for personal information. > > Anybody have any handy working examples to give me some hints? > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > Bing > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Take care... Adam