if you do the redirection with header('Location: /mypage.php'),
setting a variable on formcheck.php is not enough.
if you modify the header('Location: /mypage.php') to..
header('Location: /mypage.php?my_id=5')
it will take the variable to mypage.php as $_GET['my_id]
you can not expect a variable value set in to $_POST array to reflect
on a totally different page without making it a form post (aka use of
proper headers).
i guess, it's time to you to read about session_start() method and the
array $_SESSION available in php :)
~viraj
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Rick Dwyer <rpdwyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> OK... external function... that would explain why I could not locate it.
>
> Let me get right to the problem I am having with this code as someone may be
> able to help directly.
>
> I have a link on a page that opens a contact form. The link is
> mypage.php?my_id=5
>
> So on mypage.php, I capture this value with:
> $my_id=$_GET['my_id'];
>
> I understand this much. But when the end user submits this contact form
> they do so to formcheck.php and if formcheck.php sees a required field is
> blank, it throws it back to mypage.php with an alert. BUT, I lose the value
> of the variable $my_id. SO, I created a hidden field on mypate.php with
> value="<?php echo $my_id; ?>" and on formcheck.php, I added $my_id =
> $_Post['my_id'];
>
> However, when formcheck.php returns me to mypage.php, $my_id is still blank.
>
> Very frustrating.
>
> Any help determining what I am doing wrong is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> --Rick
>
>
> On Feb 25, 2010, at 12:31 AM, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:16:08AM -0500, Robert Cummings wrote:
>>
>>> Rick Dwyer wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello all.
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to learn PHP on the fly and I have a line of code that
>>>> contains syntax I can't find documented anywhere:
>>>>
>>>> php echo check('element8');
>>>>
>>>> In the above line, can someone tell me what "check" means?
>>>
>>>
>>> In the above, check is a function. It is being called with parameter
>>> 'element8'.
>>
>> This is true. But perhaps more importantly, check() is not a native PHP
>> function. Thus it comes from some other library or group of external
>> functions.
>>
>> Paul
>>
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