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.php">
<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]

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

Kolja

[Michael J. Astrauskas]

Shaun Demellweek wrote:

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.php">
<input type="text" value="whatever">
<input type="submit" value="Send">
Change the first line here to read:

<form action="page2.php" method="POST">
page2.php
___________
// Inserts variable $whatever into database.

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.

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- Michael J. Astrauskas

[Randell D.]

"Shaun Demellweek" <sh***@shaund.com> wrote in message
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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.php">
<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

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.