[thelist] having problems with php redirect form
Timothy J. Luoma
lists at tntluoma.com
Fri Sep 20 14:55:01 CDT 2002
Oh good lord....
First, thanks for everyone who offered help.
Second, thanks to Rudy for mentioning METHOD. Once I added that, I
found how to do what I needed to do, regardless of what is the default
(or what it is supposed to be).
Here is my PHP:
<?php
$PAGE2GO2 = $_GET["page"];
header("Location: $PAGE2GO2");
?>
here is the HTML:
<form method="get" action="/redirect.php">
<div>
<select id="page" name="page">
<option value="" selected="selected">Jump To Day</option>
<option value="http://tntluoma.com/opera/lover/day01-why/">Day 1:
Why</option>
<option value="http://tntluoma.com/opera/lover/day02-install/">Day 2:
Install</option>
...{{and so on}}....
</select>
<input type="submit" value="go" />
</div>
</form>
Now before I put 'method="get"' into the FORM, I was not getting the
variable that I needed (namely "page")
<tip type="debugging PHP" author="Tim Luoma">
When debugging PHP, drop a 'phpinfo();' into your code so see what is
going on with variables, etc. The presence or absence of information
may give clues to a solution.
</tip>
<tip type="PHP and forms" author="Tim Luoma">
Always explicitly define the METHOD (either GET or POST) you want to use
in forms which will feed PHP as this will make sure some variables are
explicitly set.
</tip>
Thanks Evolters!
TjL
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