[conmen80]

Hi all, maybe it was simple to accomplish but i really spent lots of time to code this without any value return...

How can i pass the input text 'term' value assign to onclick event like below?

Code:

<b>Enter Text:</b><br>
<input name='term' type='text' class='input' size='18'>
<input type='button' value='Go' onclick="samepage.php?q=<?php echo $term ?>" />

My form is using post method (some reason i can't use get method), i want to get the textfield value to perform a very simple search query on similar page...

Please help and thanks!!!!

[Nico]

Any why exactly doesn't GET work? Sounds like the most appropriate solution here.

[ruteckycs]

Yes use GET or POST

Like this:

<form action="my_phpscript.php" method="get">
<input type="text" name="The_Varable" size="18">
<input type ="submit" value="click here">
</form>

then in the script

$The_Varable=$_GET['The_Varable'];
echo $The_Varable;

GET will pass the data in the URL
POST will not

[conmen80]

I must using POST method in the form, i could grab the text field value using javascript but there is no way to assigned it into php variable, i must use the value to perform sql query to gain some purpose...

Thx for replying!!

[ruteckycs]

You can use GET or POST either is the same, get just appends the variable string the the URL post does not. There are many times that I use GET but generally not for a form. POST is best for a form.