[FliP1992]

I've hit a problem trying to us GET in a form

<form action='index.php?page=crime&ID={$_GET['ID']}' method='get'>

but when i submit the form it just to:

index.php?ID=1

and misses out the other part of the url
If it try it without the {$_GET['ID']} i get the same result, It seems to just stop at the index.php

Thanks

[ShaneK]

Can you post all of the form code please?

Yours,
Shane~

[sparkart]

I am not an expert at PHP so I could be wrong.

But I thought get passes the parameters through the URL.

action='file_to_process'

[FliP1992]

Thats what i was thinking as theres somthing taking just that part out.. is there anyway to get around this?

[ShaneK]

Yeah, use POST...

<form action='index.php?page=crime&ID={$_GET['ID']}' method='POST'>

It's a lot like GET, except in PHP you refer to it as $_POST['Name']...

Yours,
Shane~

This post has been edited by ShaneK: 02 August 2009 - 02:19 PM

[Valek]

FliP1992, on 2 Aug, 2009 - 04:14 PM, said:

Thats what i was thinking as theres somthing taking just that part out.. is there anyway to get around this?

Form action should just be index.php. The fact that you're using the GET method will generate the rest.

Your form must include an input object named page for that portion of the URL to be generated. The downside though to using $_GET is that, with it being in the URL, people can manipulate the data, so you have to take extra precautions to ensure security can't be compromised.

[ShaneK]

Valek, on 2 Aug, 2009 - 02:26 PM, said:

Your form must include an input object named page for that portion of the URL to be generated. The downside though to using $_GET is that, with it being in the URL, people can manipulate the data, so you have to take extra precautions to ensure security can't be compromised.

You can just as easily edit POST data. You don't take "extra" precautions, you take normal precautions.

By the way, if the page your sending the data to requires the GET data like that, then it's fine to do it like you did. I do something similar to post comments on an image gallery I made recently.

Yours,
Shane~

This post has been edited by ShaneK: 02 August 2009 - 03:07 PM