[jozin]

Hi to all,

I got this problem. I can't get the value of a text box from the other form.

Ex. I viewing the basic info of employee 1 in the current form. I want to edit his educational background by clicking a link but the IDno and Name is not displayed in the other form.


I tried to check the value of IDno this way.

PHP Code:

     if (empty($_POST['IDno'])) {

        $sn = FALSE;

       } else {

        $sn = $_POST['IDno'];

     }

     echo $sn; 

$sn is empty.

Is there an easy way to do it?
Any help or suggestion is very much appreciated.

Thanks a lot and more power.

jozin.

[DetroitGuy]

Create a session and a variable for $_POST['IDno'].

PHP Code:

<?php

// start the session

session_start();

header("Cache-control: private"); //IE 6 Fix



// Get the user's input from the form

   $id = $_POST['IDno'];



// Register session key with the value

   $_SESSION['IDno'] = $id;



// Display the session information:

//

//

?>

[jozin]

Hi DetroitGuy,

Just to clarify, where will I put the session, in the second form or in the first?
anyway, thanks for the help. Its my first time to use session.

[jordie]

DetroitGuy: Can you give me more info about that IE 6 fix? Perhaps a link to an article about it? Thanks.

[DetroitGuy]

Microsoft Internet Explorer Sessions Fix

There is one other little tricky issue I must tell you about. Since we all know even though Microsoft makes every attempt to dominate the world, their software still has issues. Let's take IE 6 for example. There's a problem with IE6 that when you are using sessions and you post to a form, when you click your back button to make changes in the form, you have to click the REFRESH button on that page to get the information that you posted back into the form. This only works about 50% of the time, the other 50% the users information is lost and they have to type it over again. Not a good thing if you are trying to get the person to enter their billing information to process an order. They might just get irritated and leave. So, here's a solution for that. Enter this right below the session_start() of each script (yes it still must be before anything is output to the browser).

http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/41/1.php

[jozin]

hi DetroitGuy,

thanks a lot for your help. I appreciate it very much.