Posted by Tom on 05/16/07 17:59

"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> shotokan99 wrote:
> > ah ok sorry for the inconvenience...let me try to explain it clearly.
> > usually if we have this:
> >
> > <form name=".." method="post" action="my.php">
> > <input type="Text" name="myname" id="myname" size="30"...> <Br>
> > <input type="submit" name".." value="save">
> > </form>
> >
> > and my.php will have:
> >
> > <?php
> > $myname=$_POST['myname'];
> > .
> > //processing here....
> > .
> > ?>
> >
> > now how about if i remove the <form...> tag. then instead of a submit
> > button ill replace it with a text linking to my.php. it loots
> > something like this:
> >
> > <input type="Text" name="myname" id="myname" size="30"...> <Br>
> > <a href="my.php?name='.$myname.'...>Save</a>
> >
> > then my.php will look like this:
> > <?phpa
> > $myname=$_GET['myname'];
> > .
> > //processing here....
> > .
> > ?>
> >
> > my problem is how get the value of the textbox and assign it to
> > $myname variable.
> > is it possible with php or i need javascript for this matter? i hope i
> > was able to explain it clearly
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> Unless the textbox is in a form, it will never be submitted to the
> server, so PHP will never see it.
>
> But why not use a form? That's why it's there.
>
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Along the lines of what you were saying, you can use $_GET variables by
formatting a web address link correctly

http://www.domain.com/index.php?key1='value1'+key2='value2'

but a textarea form field is too large to do that with. If you already have
a textarea that needs to be filled in, there's normally some submit button
and would probably be simpler using $_POST variables than trying to force
the textarea data in $_GET.

Tom
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