Form Sending

[Shaun Demellweek]

When you use a form to insert data into a MySQL database, how can you
set it up so that the fields are not sent via the address bar.

For example:

page1.php
___________
<form action="page2.p hp">
<input type="text" value="whatever ">
<input type="submit" value="Send">


page2.php
___________
// Inserts variable $whatever into database.

The problem that I have is that I don't want the address bar to appear
as http://web/page2.php?whatever=cheese but as http://web/page2.php

Any ideas?

Many thanks in advance
Shaun Demellweek

[Kolja Engelmann]

Re: Form Sending

write this:
<form action="page2.p hp" method = "post">

Kolja

[Michael J. Astrauskas]

Re: Form Sending

Shaun Demellweek wrote:
[color=blue]
> When you use a form to insert data into a MySQL database, how can you
> set it up so that the fields are not sent via the address bar.
>
> For example:
>
> page1.php
> ___________
> <form action="page2.p hp">
> <input type="text" value="whatever ">
> <input type="submit" value="Send">[/color]

Change the first line here to read:

<form action="page2.p hp" method="POST">
[color=blue]
> page2.php
> ___________
> // Inserts variable $whatever into database.
>[/color]

Then to get the variables here you can use
$whatever = $_POST["whatever"];

Or you can import all POST variables via import_request_ variables
(http://www.php.net/manual/en/functio...-variables.php) or
$_REQUEST
(http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserve...ables.request).

I recommend the second option:
import_request_ variables("P"," p_");

This will import all variables from the form and name them $p_whatever.

--
- Michael J. Astrauskas

[Randell D.]

Re: Form Sending


"Shaun Demellweek" <shaun@shaund.c om> wrote in message
news:37b99ead.0 309240409.2eb71 4e1@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue]
> When you use a form to insert data into a MySQL database, how can you
> set it up so that the fields are not sent via the address bar.
>
> For example:
>
> page1.php
> ___________
> <form action="page2.p hp">
> <input type="text" value="whatever ">
> <input type="submit" value="Send">
>
>
> page2.php
> ___________
> // Inserts variable $whatever into database.
>
> The problem that I have is that I don't want the address bar to appear
> as http://web/page2.php?whatever=cheese but as http://web/page2.php
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Many thanks in advance
> Shaun Demellweek[/color]

There are different methods to process your form - specifically, POST and
GET and I think you are using GET (which will limit form data I think to
1024 characters)... I suggest you change to POST to resolve your problem in
addition, to allowing you to pass more content, either now, or the future...
You can do this by adding METHOD=POST inside your <FORM> tag.