How to do this? Form fill problem

[Moozie]

I have a form that people can fill out.

Link looks like:
http://www.myname.com/form.php
A regular form, nothing special.

Now I would like to fill out 1 field automatically by the link I give
people.
E.g. custommer number 14 will get a link from me like this one:
http://www.myname.com/form.php?number=14
Or something similar.

What I would like to know is: how to put that "number 14" included in
the link into the form. Or (even better) send it as a hidden field in
the form?

Is there maybe a cgi script or php script that does this job? Or a
piece of javascript maybe?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks for reading!

[kchayka]

Moozie wrote:

http://www.myname.com/form.php?number=14

What I would like to know is: how to put that "number 14" included in
the link into the form. Or (even better) send it as a hidden field in
the form?

Just about everything you ever wanted to know about php can be found at
php.net. For this particular topic, see:
<URL:http://us4.php.net/manual/en/language.variab les.external.ph p>

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[David Dorward]

Moozie wrote:

Now I would like to fill out 1 field automatically by the link I give
people.
E.g. custommer number 14 will get a link from me like this one:
http://www.myname.com/form.php?number=14 What I would like to know is: how to put that "number 14" included in
the link into the form. Or (even better) send it as a hidden field in
the form? Is there maybe a cgi script or php script that does this job?

Trival in any server side language.

Perl CGI for example:

use CGI;
my $cgi = CGI->new();
my $value = $cgi->param('number' );
$value = 0 unless (defined $value); # Set a default
# Only allow numbers to protect against x-site scripting attacks
$value = 0 unless (int($value) eq $value);
print qq(<input type="hidden" name="number" value="$number" >);

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[Trammel]

"Moozie" <no****@dse.n l> wrote in message
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I have a form that people can fill out.

Link looks like:
http://www.myname.com/form.php
A regular form, nothing special.

Now I would like to fill out 1 field automatically by the link I give
people.
E.g. custommer number 14 will get a link from me like this one:
http://www.myname.com/form.php?number=14
Or something similar.

What I would like to know is: how to put that "number 14" included in
the link into the form. Or (even better) send it as a hidden field in
the form?

Is there maybe a cgi script or php script that does this job? Or a
piece of javascript maybe?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks for reading!

Your form already uses PHP so all you need is to do is edit your PHP and add
a tiny "Value" to your inputbox within the form.

For example, here's a line I use in a login section to remember usernames
(single line follows):
echo ("Username: <input class=\"inputbo x\" type=\"text\" name=\"wUser\"
maxlength=\"40\ " value=\"$wUser\ "><br>");

To do the same with your number... maybe you'd want (single line follows):
echo ("Customer number: <input class=\"inputbo x\" type=\"text\"
name=\"number\" maxlength=\"5\" value=\"$number \"><br>");

Then your link http://www.myname.com/form.php?number=14 would automatically
fill-in the box "number" with 14... and the user could also change it.

If you dont want the value to be changed easily though... you could always
make the input box hidden ;)

[Moozie]

Thanks. I tested your code. I made a cgi file called form.cgi and put
your code in. I entered a link in browser to thast cgi script. And
tested with the addition: http://www.mydomain.com/form.cgi?number=14

I thought I would get a page with only the hidden code in it. Nut I
got an server-error.

Error message:
Bad header=<input type="hidden" name = "num....

The content of the whole cgi file:

use CGI;
my $cgi = CGI->new();
my $value = $cgi->param('number' );
$value = 0 unless (defined $value); # Set a default
# Only allow numbers to protect against x-site scripting attacks
$value = 0 unless (int($value) eq $value);
print qq(<input type="hidden" name="number" value="$number" >);

Is there a mistake?

Thanks

I am rather new on cgi, so please forgive me some nembie mistakes...

[Moozie]

> Your form already uses PHP so all you need is to do is edit your PHP and add

a tiny "Value" to your inputbox within the form.

I am sorry for the mistake (I made it!) but the form handling is done
by a cgi script, that is already modified in a extended way. So I need
what you said (PHP) in a cgi version...

The cgi program I use is a modified version

Thanks. Any clues?

[Moozie]

THANKS TOU YOU I SOLVED IT.

CLOSED

[Trammel]

"Moozie" <no****@dse.n l> wrote in message
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[snip]

I am rather new on cgi, so please forgive me some nembie mistakes...

Not helpful of me but I thought I should point out that its spelt
"newbie"...
....learn the basics like that and the code should just fall in place (With
help from someone who knows how to do what you want done ;¬)

[Trammel]

"Moozie" <no****@dse.n l> wrote in message
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THANKS TOU YOU I SOLVED IT.

CLOSED

See... all you needed was to be told how to spell "newbie" :¬P