Posted by Tim Streater on 11/14/06 12:10

In article <1163505571.048647.193820@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
aaron.reese@tiscali.co.uk wrote:

> or append the variables to the end of the href URL as
> www.callthispage.co.uk/callthispage.html?variable1=999&variable2=XYZ
>
> You can then strip them off in the receiving page using $HTTP_GET_VARS
> and use them in the same way as you would $_POST values.

Not if you have 30 or 40 variables to pass. Up to now I have used a form
with hidden variables but I am going to look at the session stuff. Not
quite clear in my mind how to use it as we don't have sessions as such.

> Of course by doing this the user will see the values being passed
> across in the URL string (unless you use Ajax) and it will make the
> page ungoogleable.

That might be considered an advantage.

-- tim

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