Posted by J.O. Aho on 12/29/05 00:38

Camile wrote:
> This may be a really simple question, but I'm a rookie.
>
> I have a string of text (simple echo)in a PHP script that I don't want in my
> HTML form code. So when my form /page opens I'd like it to pull the text
> value from my server's PHP script.
>
> So, when my page/form opens it will populate the below 'value':
> <input type="hidden" name="business"
> value="http://www.domain.com/hidden.php" />
> (doesn't work of course)
> I imagine an OnLoad Javascript function could somehow retrieve the PHP
> value, set it equal to a variable, then set the variable to equal my form
> field value.
>
> I think if I could just display this value(as default) in an Input
> type="text" field, I could make this work.


You need to have your form-page-script and the value-script on the same machine.

in the form-page-script you make the input tags like
<?PHP include('value-script.php');
<form>
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="<?PHP echo $varbusiness; ?>">
</form>


in your value-script you have

$varbusiness="what ever you want";


//Aho

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