I am working on a project where i need to access clean URL's always i.e no parameters can be passed in the URL for getting values on another page.
Can anyone please suggest an alternative other than 'Form Submit' method.
Thanks In Advance.
Use $_SESSION for this purpose.
Using $_SESSION you can use variable in multiple pages wherever you want.
// assigning variable
$_SESSION['name']="variable";
//retrieving
echo $_SESSION['name'];
write session_start() at the top of page wherever you want $_SESSION variable
For Clean URL's i prefer you may use HTTP POST Method. Hope that helps.
<form name="frmApp" method="POST" action="/action.php">
</form>
Else, you can use AJAX with jQuery to submit the values to another page.
$.ajax({url:"action.php",success:function(result){
$("div").html(result);
}});
Check out w3schools to get started with AJAX : http://www.w3schools.com/jquery/jquery_ajax.asp
No support for SESSION since i don't like writing php code inside my web page.
Sessions can help, or ajax call.
for using clean url you can use post method in form
<form name='' method='POST' action=''>
You can try mapping resources to the url.
Suppose you want to get mailing address of a customer then you can write.
http://[baseurl]/[customerId]/mailingaddress.
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I am working on a project where i need to access clean URL's always i.e no parameters can be passed in the URL for getting values on another page.
Can anyone please suggest an alternative other than 'Form Submit' method.
Thanks In Advance.
Use $_SESSION for this purpose.
Using $_SESSION you can use variable in multiple pages wherever you want.
// assigning variable
$_SESSION['name']="variable";
//retrieving
echo $_SESSION['name'];
write session_start() at the top of page wherever you want $_SESSION variable
For Clean URL's i prefer you may use HTTP POST Method. Hope that helps.
<form name="frmApp" method="POST" action="/action.php">
</form>
Else, you can use AJAX with jQuery to submit the values to another page.
$.ajax({url:"action.php",success:function(result){
$("div").html(result);
}});
Check out w3schools to get started with AJAX : http://www.w3schools.com/jquery/jquery_ajax.asp
No support for SESSION since i don't like writing php code inside my web page.
Sessions can help, or ajax call.
for using clean url you can use post method in form
<form name='' method='POST' action=''>
You can try mapping resources to the url.
Suppose you want to get mailing address of a customer then you can write.
http://[baseurl]/[customerId]/mailingaddress.
Read more here
Just learning about passing variables from page to page in php, and trying to find the best way to do so for me, as I have to pass ~10 variables between 5 pages. On the first page, does it make sense to have a form:
<form method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="test" value="<?php $test ?>" />
</form>
Then on the next page could I receive this variable using POST? I would not like to have an ACTUAL form, just use it as a storage area for my variables. Also, what do I use for action= if the second page is called second.php.
Any help is appreciated, thanks
Short Answer: Forms only work when submitted. You probably want to use sessions.
Longer Answer:
It does not make sense to have a form without user input. That's what it exists for.
the action= attribute on a form reflects where the form would be submitted. If the processing page is second.php then the action= attribute should point there.
Sessions are not the only possibility. PHP can also set cookies, and if the server doesn't care about the data (only being used as a medium), you can use HTML5's localStorage.
Really, if you need to be passing 10 variables through all five pages, you're probably better off using sessions. You can store all of them as part of the $_SESSION variable and access them from any page as long as the session is kept alive.
You can't use $_POST variables to store data in a user's session.
You should use:
Sessions
Cookies
HTML5 storage
It depends on what you want to do, you have various options:
1. Using a form and post as you outlined. In this case, on page 1 your action="second.php"
2. Passing the data via URL using GET
3. Sessions, as stated by the previous two posts
4. Cookies
If I understand your question correctly you could try the following to POST your values without having the form appear on the page or actually be on the page at all. You need to have the jQuery library referenced in order to use this code.
function hiddenPost(param1) {
$('<form />')
.hide()
.attr({ method: "post" })
.attr({ action: "http://my-URL-here.com/SomePage.php" })
.append($('<input />')
.attr("type", "hidden")
.attr({ "name": "post_data" })
.val(param1)
)
.append('<input type="submit" />')
.appendTo($("body"))
.submit();
}
You can retrieve the POST values on the page you POST to in the same manner as if it was a regular POST with a form tag.
For PHP:
var postData = $_POST["post_data"];
Hope that helps.
I'm trying to store the redirect URL for use a few pages later but I'm having trouble figuring out how to get it from one place to another.
Usually I'd just pass a variable thru the URL, but since my redirect URL contains URL variables itself, this doesn't exactly work.
To give you a better idea of what I'm trying to do, here's the structure.
PAGE 1: User can click a link to add content on PAGE 2
PAGE 2: User enters text. Submitting the form on this page calls "formsubmit.php" where the MySQL data entries are handled. At the end of this I need to redirect the user to PAGE 1 again. The redirect URL needs to exactly match what was originally on PAGE 1
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about this?
You should use $_SESSION to store the variable in session memory. As far as specifics go with how to handle this in particular, you should be able to figure it out (store the variable, check if it exists later, if so redirect etc etc) but $_SESSION is going to be much more efficient / less messy than trying to pass things back and forth in query strings.
To declare a session variable you would do something like this:
$_SESSION['redirUrl'] = "http://www.lolthisisaurl.com/lolagain";
And then to reference it you just do
$theUrl = $_SESSION['redirUrl'];
Here is some material to get you started: http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.session.php
I would recommend either using session variables, or storing the redirect url in a hidden form parameter. Session variables are pretty simple; just initialize the session (once, at the top of each page), and then assign variables to the $_SESSION global var:
<?php
session_start();
...
$_SESSION['redirect_url'] = whatever.com;
...
Hidden form parameters work by sending the data from page to page as form data. On the backend, you would add code that would put the URL to be stored in a form variable:
<input type='hidden' name='redirect_url' value='<?php echo $redirect_url; ?>';
On each page, you can take the URL out of the $_POST or $_GET variable (whichever is appropriate) and insert it into a hidden form in the next page.
You can use urlencode and urldecode to pass a string that contains elements that would otherwise break a url in a url query.
I can see two possible solutions :
get the previous page from document.referrer ([edit] find more info on this SO thread : getting last page URL from history object - cross browser?)
store the previous url via a session variable ([edit] MoarCodePlz pointed this out in his answer)
Regards,
Max
You can add this hidden field in to your form:
<input type="hidden" name="referer" value="<?php echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; ?>">
Then use header() to redirect to this page:
header('Location: '. $_POST['referer']);
I have a simple command:
<?php echo form_open("sales/add",array('id'=>'add_item_form')); ?>
How can I make this command so it just updates the form, without reload or redirection. I dont even need to see the form. I have tried all sorts of methods, but wondering if there is something simple here I am missing. I just need to post the data.
This is what is outputted by codeigniter.
<form action="http://127.0.0.1/index.php/sales/add" method="post" id="add_item_form">
<label id="item_label" for="item">
</form>
I have tried jquery but still does not work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
You could use iframes or xml http requests (ajax)
You absolutely need jquery ajax function to do that. Maybe you have tried different jquery function. Check this out:
http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.post/
There are some examples in that link you can look at.
Do you know the path of your controller? Then you can use jQuery to do that. Check this plugin: http://jquery.malsup.com/form/
I've never really thought about this, but it helps with some security of something I'm currently working on. Is it possible to submit GET data without an actual input field, and instead just getting it from the URL?
If so, how would I go about doing this? It kind of makes sense that it should be possible, but at the same time it makes no sense at all.
Perhaps I've been awake too long and need some rest. But I'd like to finish this project a bit more first, so any help you can offer would be appreciated. Thanks
Yes. If you add some query-string to yourl url, you can obtain that in php using $_GET without form submitting.
Going to this URL adress http://yoururl/test.php?foo=bar cause echoing foo (if there will be no foo query string, you'll get warning).
# test.php
echo $_GET['foo'] # => bar
Is this what you mean?
Link
// page.php
echo $_GET['type']; // foobar
This is what I understand of your question:
You have a <form method="get" action="foo.php">-like tag on your page
You have a series of <input type="text" name="bar"/> in your page
You want to pass additional GET parameters that are not based on an input from the form
If so, it is possible, but I hardly see how it could help with security. Input from a client cannot be trusted, so even if you hardcode the GET value, you have to check it serverside against SQL injection, HTML injection/XSS, and whatnot.
You have two ways:
Use a hidden input: <input type="hidden" name="myHiddenGetValue" value="foobar"/>
Add the GET parameter to the form action: <form method="get" action="foo.php?myHardcodedGetValue=foobar">
If what you meant is that you want to have a GET request without a form, you just need to pass all the GET parameters to the href of a link:
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Yes it's possible. Just append the GET data to the link.
For example:
<a href="main.htm?testGet=1&pageNo=54>Test</a>
You can also use Javascript to build the url.
If you happen to be using jQuery and want to build the GET data dynamically you can do this:
var getParams = { testGet:1, pageNo:54 };
$(".myLink").attr("href", url + "?" + $.param(getParams));