How do you pass the name of a visitor to your website from one page to another so the page visited will contain a welcome msg with their name at the top of the page?

You should look for the term: session.
Generally if you want to store information about a user while he is browsing your site, you must create a session. You can store it on the server, at the client in cookies, or you might propagate all the information in the url (as get attributes).
Storing at the server needs serverside scripting, anything from php, asp, jsp, you name it should work.
Using cookies is easier, you can get away without using serverside scripting, but they can be disabled, and then your site won't work.
Finally propagating in the url is cumbersome (you must use javascript to generate all the links or requests so taht you can put the info into it dynamically), and the quantity of information that you can store this was is very limited.
Bottomline: try one of the serverside technologies (PHP is free and easy to learn, and most web hosting companies have it), all of them provide session management that is usually easy to use.

I have a form that I will have the user input his name into, what would the code look like using PHP?

just google php sessions ,
if you take a look at that and don't understand part of it,
or have trouble getting it to work feel free to ask,
but this site is more about helping with a problem,
we don't really like writing up code and just handing it off.

welcome to the site though, and not being rude just letting you know.

This last question should be asked in the PHP forum.
Also, please read the forum rules, because you are not likely to get any answers for a question like this.
Finally, there are some PHP samples in the snippets section, soem of them dealing with forms. Also, try searching for php session tutorial in google, and I am sure you will find something that you could even copy&paste into your project...

and TJL beat me on this one...

I'm too nice.

Assuming you have an HTML form with a text box named 'name' and you're using POST for simplicity, the below will work. If you don't understand POST/GET I'm not going to help you.



On all subsequent pages where you want the name to appear you can reference it with $_SESSION['name'].

You could also use cookies.

This post has been edited by Welli: 5 Jul, 2007 - 01:48 PM