Topic: Passing values --- really annoying me....

[~n[EO]n~]

back again ;

I will start immediately

The problem is that I have 3 different pages (classic, business and VIP) which links to the contact.php page
and in these 3 pages there are 3 different banners, menu and footer. And in the (3) footer file there is one common link to the contact page

what i did was from the Classic footer i passed this value

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<a href="contacts.php?frompage=Classic" class="bottom_link">contact</a>
and from the business footer i passed this

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<a href="contacts.php?frompage=Business" class="bottom_link">contact</a>
and from VIP footer i passed this

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<a href="contacts.php?frompage=VIP" class="bottom_link">contact</a>
and in the contacts.php page i did this

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<?php $mypage = $_REQUEST['frompage']; ?>
and from this variable i managed the header, menu and footer

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<?php 
if ($mypage=='Classic') 
{
include("includes/header_classic.php"); 
}
elseif ($mypage=='Business') 
{
include("includes/header_business.php");
}
elseif ($mypage=='VIP')
{
include("includes/header_vip.php");
}
?>
same code follows for menu and footer

But what happened is when i Submit the form and save the information in database (all the values) gets saved, the header, menu and the footer gets lost...

I know because while submitting $mypage variable gets blank and due to this the headers are not showing, how shall i retain the value from this variable while i submit the form or the page refreshes..

Please someone help...

[jscix]

You'l most likely need to use sessions, I don't know what your doing .. how-EVER, It looks to me like you are giving your users alot of control by passing Access Restrictions in the URL Bar. Users can change these values, which is a potential security risk.

I would save the users access level in a session variable.. that way you won't need to worry about passing variables around so much, only initially..

If you need help with this, just respond back.. I will give ya plenty of info if your willing to read.

[~n[EO]n~]

Ok, yes i hadn't thought of that , but for now can you suggest how to save these names. Using Session is also not working

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<?php $mypage=$_REQUEST['frompage'];

$_SESSION['currpage'] = $mypage;

$mynewpage = $_SESSION['currpage'];

?>
I tried this also but does not work,

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<form name="frmcontact" method="post" action="contacts.php?frompage=<?=$mynewpage?>">
  <input type='hidden' name='co_usertype' value="<?=$mypage;?>">
BTW, i will be glad to read your info, but please don't give a link to the websites.

Thanks a lot....

[jscix]

Well I'm gonna ask the obvious just to make sure -- You do have Session_Start() as the very, very, first thing on your page right? If so, that should be working.

[~n[EO]n~]

No don't have to do that cause it gets automatically started and it is done config.php file

here some codes from config.php file

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<?php
//========config.php==========================
// application global configuration constants.
//------------------------
// intialize environment
session_name("sitename");
session_start();
set_magic_quotes_runtime(0);
//error_reporting(0);
// set default content type and encoding
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
$path=realpath("./");
if(strpos($path,"admin")>0)
      $rootpath=realpath("../");
else
      $rootpath=realpath("./");


define('INCLUDES_DIR',$rootpath.'/includes/');
define('CLASS_DIR',$rootpath. '/classes/');

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<?php
require_once("config.php");
require_once("user_info.class.php");
?>

cause in the user login page i haven't called Session_Start() and it is working fine...

[jscix]

Ok, Then ...

In your footer, after the user follows the link to: contact.php?frompage=business

and in your contacts.php, you have:

$_SESSION['var'] = $_GET['frompage'];

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print $_SESSION['var'];

This should print 'business', does it?