I have a simple form here where you add your name and submit it. diablouniverse.com/Grab/test.php instead of filling out the form i want to make a url that does it for me how can i do this? an example would be something like this: diablouniverse.com/Grab/test.php?&name=Yourname&submit but i dont know exactly what i would need to write to make this url work...
Instead of using the submit button, you can use navigation links(HTML <A> tag) for your purpose. Make the link URL as something like follows: Code: diablouniverse.com/Grab/target.php?name=Yourname Here target.php is the target page where you want to navigate. i.e. When you click a link from test.php, then target.php will be loaded. In target.php, you can get the submitted variable using $_GET['name'].
let me explain further. I do not want to have the user type anything into the form. I do not even need the form it is just an example for testing. I need to have a url that posts data to a txt file. I can do it with a form so i know it can be done with just a url. I want to eliminate the form. the data should be in the url itself so nothing has to be typed into a form.
like for example I click this link http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=test this automatically submits "test" to google how can I make a link that automatically submits "test" to my script? the script may need to be adjusted to allow this, and I am not sure what I need in my url to actually make it work. here is the code to the script Code: <?php // Check if the user submitted this form if (isset($_POST["submitwrite"])) { echo $_POST['usersname']; // Open the file in write mode $handle = fopen("writetest.txt","a+"); // If successful if ($handle) { // Write to that handle the username submitted in the form and the date fwrite($handle,$_POST["usersname"] . " - " . date("Y-m-d")); // Close the file fclose($handle); } } ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang = "en" dir="ltr"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>Submit example</title> </head> <body> <!-- Notice how the form is submitting to itself --> <form method="POST" action="test.php" name="form1" id="form1"> Name: <input type="text" name="usersname"/><br/> <input type="submit" value="Write" name="submitwrite"/> </form> </body> </html>
although venami gave a correct answer, loyo explained it in exact and simple terms. I have accomplished the task at hand. my only concern is that there is only a 100 character maximum for this function. is there a way to increase the character maximum?
I also tested but must not have waited long enough for the refresh. the variable is passed even though it is over 100 characters long. I was misinformed about the limitations of the get variable from this article http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_get.asp it states Note: The get method is not suitable for large variable values; the value cannot exceed 100 characters.
