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Passing variables to fill a form

Hi :)

anyone knows how can I send variables from a php page to a form - i need to fill the form with these variables ?

maybe using (the process of passing variables to other pages - through url)

but how can i assign them to form variables ?

Re: Passing variables to fill a form

Your form page is also a PHP Page and you will get them as _GET and _POST

Re: Passing variables to fill a form

page.php

Code: html

<?php
$items = "item1,item3";
?>

<a href="form.php?selectedItems=<?=$items?>" >View Form<a/>

form.php

Code: html

<form name="selectionform" method="post" action="">

              <select  size="3" multiple name="selectedItems[]">
                <option value="item1">Item1</option>
                <option value="item2">Item2</option>
                <option value="item3">Item3</option>
              </select>

              <input type="submit" value="View Result">
</form>

What I'm looking for is when user click "View Form" link, they get the for filled with items - i.e some items are alreay selected ---- then if the user want to deselect one of the items or select more items he should able to do that.. !

to check the result: - in form.php

PHP Code:


		
			
if($_POST)

    echo implode($_POST['selectedItems'],",");

so what do you think ? having $_GET inside form.php will solve the problem ! .. but I've tried it and it doesn't work.. I didn't know how to handle the array and nothing selected !! .. can you take my sample code and add to it the proper things so it will work ! please

Re: Passing variables to fill a form

Here goes the example

page.php

Code: html

<a href="form.php?selectedItems=SomeValue" >View Form<a/>

form.php

Code: html

<?php
$items = $_GET['selectedItems'];
?>

<form name="selectionform" method="post" action="">
    <input type="text" name="replyname" size=30 value="<?php $items; ?>">
    <input type="submit" value="View Result">
</form>

Other all options like explode and other things are cosmetic changes.

Also I have not verified the code and so don't go for the syntax but see the semantics for it.