Posted by JDS on 10/09/05 20:56

On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 13:10:02 -0400, Douglas F. wrote:

> Could it be written:
>
> <a href="./Download Files/somefile.exe">somefile>
> "<?$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>?ver= somefile"> </a>

No. Not sure what you are trying to do with that but you appear to be
incorrectly using HTML and PHP to produce a mishmash. (No offense
intended, just calling like I sees it).

To send a variable/value from an HTML page to a PHP script, you must put
the variable in a form or in the URL. An HTML form can use either the GET
or POST methods; a URL uses only the GET method.

PHP then takes whatever is sent and makes it accessible to the script in
either ( ( the $_POST global array OR the $_GET global array ) AND the
$_REQUEST global array ).

For clarification, read this:
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.forms.php

and this:
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php#reserved.variables.get


Also, the original post has some obvious errors in it that could be typos.
Did you retype it or copy and paste it from the real source?



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