Hello Bill I mixed up names and ended up answering the wrong message. Sorry. Actually it is quite easy... In viewallorders.php you should replace: echo "<a href='showorder.php?$name '>"; with echo '<a href="showorder.php?&name=' . $name . '">'; and then, in showorder.php <?php parse_str($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], $qs); $name = $qs['name']; and that's it! Now, the strings passed through this method are insecure. You should use a parser function to clean or sanitize them (like urlencode/urldecode). Cheers JP -----Original Message----- From: Bill Mudry <billmudry@xxxxxxxxxx> To: php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Can't seem to transfer a dynamically chosen parameter to next page Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:39:08 -0500 I hope someone has an answer to what has been a thorny problem for me. I am still junior to using PHP. I have a script that displays a bunch of woody botanical orders out of a MySQL file nicely in columns. That part works fine. Next what is wanted is for a user to be able to click on one of them, the result being that it would open up a new page that would get details on the woody order the person chose out of another MySQL table. Well .... I got it to link to a page that opens up ok ---- except after numerous attempts and ways I cannot get the name of the chosen woody order to transfer to this next page. - the examples I have seen on the Internet and book use static information for the better part while the very parameter that needs to be passed is derived dynamically. I am fairly sure that is complicating things more. - Cookies would be an overkill and have too much persistence. I believe using "session" would be overkill, too, even if it might work. All I need is to make the choice the reader makes go global enough to use it in the very page that it calls. It is then also used both for titles on that page (dynamic) and to do a query for information to display on that chosen order. Writing to a file seems to be an inefficient way if there is only a way to just make it be memory resident instead. The running copy can be seen and tried (to the degree it is working so far) at: http://www.prowebcanada.com/taxa/viewallorders.php The files used are viewallorders.php and the response page of showorder.php. I will add these as attachments. What *will* work? Hope someone can help. Bill Mudry MIssissauga, ON -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
