Pass Variable to more than one page - php

Question

I'm able to pass a variable from a link on my first page to the 2nd page, but i'm having a hard time passing that variable into the third page. How can i pass the variable to the third page?
First Page is a HTML Page
Go to Page Two
Second Page is a PHP Page
<?php
echo $_GET["Page"];
?>
Third Page is a PHP Page
???

Answer 1

To pass a variable along from one page to another you can choose from multiple options:
Sessions
Cookies
Storage (File or Database)
Sessions
The first page:
<?php
// Prepare to use sessions (This should be at the top of your page)
session_start();
if (!isset($_SESSION['test']) && isset($_GET['test'])) {
$_SESSION['test'] = $_GET['test'];
header("Location: secondpage.php");
exit;
}
The second page:
<?php
session_start();
// Output session
var_dump($_SESSION['test']);
Cookies
First page:
<?php
if (isset($_GET['test'])) {
setcookie('test', $_GET['test'], time() + (86400 * 30), "/");
}
Second page:
";
echo "Value is: " . $_COOKIE['test'];
}
Files and Databases
This is too big a subject to discuss in one answer. However, there are tons of tutiroals that can learn you all you need to know about PHP and MySQL.
Example
First page:
Go
Second page:
<?php
session_start();
if (isset($_GET['page'])) {
$_SESSION['page'] = $_GET['page'];
}
header("Location: page_three.php");
exit;
?>
Third page:
<?php
session_start();
// Will echo two
echo $_SESSION['page'];
?>
Resources
PHP - Sessions
PHP - Cookies

Answer 2

You have two main options:
you can keep linking the pages with url parameters
Go to Page Two
Go to Page Three
This solutions is quite inconvenient if you want to keep the "page" value for a long term
The best solution as user1234 said is to store the value in the session.
if your first page MUST be html and you can't store it at begining you can do in any of your php pages
$_SESSION['Page'] = $_GET["Page"];