Hi Richard, When you submit the form, why not have a hidden field in the form like: <input type="hidden" name="backtopage" value="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>"> Then use that 'backtopage' variable in your script where you direct the results to. Or.. if you don't want to use a hidden field.. parse the URL to get the referrer? HTH Aaron > -----Original Message----- > From: Hutchins, Richard [mailto:Richard.Hutchins@Getingeusa.com] > Sent: August 19, 2003 1:54 PM > To: PHP-DB > Subject: Returning Results > > OK, I'll apologize in advance if this is a little off topic, but I think > it'll be close enough. > > I have a form (searchform.php) that collects data for a search (e.g., > firstname, lastname). That form submits to a separate PHP script > (search.php) that queries a database to find matching rows and returns the > information in an array ($results). > > All pretty standard stuff and it all works. > > I know I "while()" the information in the resulting array ($results) to > draw > a table showing all of the results. But what that would require is the > form > (searchform.php) to collect the data and submit to the search.php script > where HTML and PHP code combine in one file to perform the query and draw > the results. I know how to do this and have done it in the past. > > However, this instance has a wrinkle to it. When the searchform.php form > submits to search.php, I want to perform the query, but return the user > (and > the $results array) to searchform.php to display the results. > > I want to stress that I can get the information from the database with no > problem. I'm just stuck on how to get the results back to the page that > called the search.php script in the first place. > > Is turning search.php into a function and "return"-ing the results the > only > way to accomplish this? Because the only other idea I can come up with is > using a header("Location:http://searchform.php?rs=$results";); statement > and > that doesn't seem to work (and logically, I can see why). > > I'm not asking for a total solution here because I can handle the whole > solution myself. However I would appreciate a bump in the right direction > in > regards to how to architect the application logic. > > Thanks in advance, > Rich > > Rich Hutchins > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
