Pass data to another page?

[pqsoftware]

I need to pass data from one web page to another.

For example I have 10 products, when the user clicks the price of the product I need to load a new page which can display data from the first page such as description, price, quantity etc.

not sure if i need to do this in PHP or if it can be done in HTML?

Any help appreciated.

thanks

[Markus]

@pqsoftware
HTML cannot do this, no. You could use Javascript to avoid using server-side programming.

However, while we are here, we may as well discuss the options.

You may have noticed complex looking URLs like so: http://site.com/?name=markus&age=18&desc=very%20sexy. This is using a route that passes information via the URL. This information can be obtained via the GET array (links at bottom). How do I get the info to the URL, you may ask? Well, if you set a form's action attribute to 'get', open submitting the form, it will create and append the data within the form to the URL. As said before, you then have access via the GET array.

Another option is the POST (links at bottom) array, this is sometimes preferable to GET as the data is not easily visible to the user; it is not passed via the URL, but by magic. This option can be achieved by setting the form's action attribute to 'post'.

There are other options such as SESSION or COOKIE that are used to pass data between pages.

• POST and GET tutorial,
• SESSIONS tutorial,
• COOKIE tutorial

Mark.

[dlite922]

@pqsoftware
HTML is not a programming language, but a markup language. To achieve your solution in HTML, you'd have to create a html page for each product detail and go to that page (hard code the name) from the product summary page.

to do it with PHP is very easy. You can pass it via the URL such as:

yoursite.com/productDetail.php?productID=12345

then on productDetail you can get the productID with $_GET['productID'].

From this product ID you can pull the rest of your product info from your data soruce...which I hope is a MySQL database.

Cheers,



Dan

[dlite922]

Ahhhg... you beat me to it. shouldn't have taken that smoke break. :)



Dan

@Markus

[Markus]

It takes you 45+ minutes for a smoke? What the chuff are you smoking? ;)