Posted by jonathan.beckett on 02/15/06 17:38

I've seen a pre-built friends-reunited solution before, and I'm
wondering if that's the one you're using.

Anyway...

Normally you put a form in the page that calls another page, and make
it "post" it's data..

Example - in your page with the search form...

<form method="POST" action="search.php">
<input type="text" name="search" size="20">
<input type="submit" value="Go!">
</form>

then in search.php, the $_POST variables have the contents of the form,
which you might access like this...

$search = $_POST["search"];

.... and then you might do something with the database...

$sql = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE foo LIKE
'%".mysql_escape_string($search)."%'";


Hope that makes some sense...

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