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Aug 27.2007

Hello,

I have a simple HREF in a table such as:
<a href=”products.php” name=’cat’>Lighting</a>

I have tried various methods such as $_GET, $_SESSION to get the value ‘Lighting’ brought forward but I know im missing something.

Can anyone help

What I want to be able to do realistically is from the HREF statement, bring forward the value that is clicked so I can use it in a MYSQL statement.

Any help would be great.

Thanks

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@dodzAug 27.2007 — Hello,

I have a simple HREF in a table such as:

<a href="products.php" name='cat'>Lighting</a>

I have tried various methods such as $_GET, $_SESSION to get the value 'Lighting' brought forward but I know im missing something.

Can anyone help

What I want to be able to do realistically is from the HREF statement, bring forward the value that is clicked so I can use it in a MYSQL statement.

Any help would be great.

Thanks[/QUOTE]


It should be.

[CODE]<a href="products.php?cat=lightning">Lighting</a>[/CODE]
-----------------


to retreive it is.....
[CODE]$_GET["cat"]; // the value "lightning"[/CODE]
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@nicelad_ukauthorAug 27.2007 — Thanks for this, it works a treat.

Do you know how to do the same in forms? I have the following form which uses $_POST, but would rather it use the same principle as you just described:


[CODE]<form name='manufacturerform' method='post' action='$PHP_SELF'>
<select name='catselect' onchange=manufacturerform.submit()>
<option value=''>--Select Category--</option>
<option value=''>All</option>
<option value='Lighting'>Lighting</option>
</select>
</form>[/CODE]

Thanks
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@dodzAug 27.2007 — Thanks for this, it works a treat.

Do you know how to do the same in forms? I have the following form which uses $_POST, but would rather it use the same principle as you just described:


[CODE]<form name='manufacturerform' method='post' action='$PHP_SELF'>
<select name='catselect' onchange=manufacturerform.submit()>
<option value=''>--Select Category--</option>
<option value=''>All</option>
<option value='Lighting'>Lighting</option>
</select>
</form>[/CODE]

Thanks[/QUOTE]



Need some little tweaking on the form ?..... perhaps like.....

[CODE]echo [COLOR="Red"]'[/COLOR]<form name="manufacturerform" method="post" action="'.$PHP_SELF.'">
<select name="catselect" onchange="manufacturerform.submit()">
<option value="">--Select Category--</option>
<option value="All">All</option>
<option value="Lighting">Lighting</option>
</select>
</form> [COLOR="Red"]'[/COLOR]; [/CODE]

then to retreive is.....
[CODE]
$_POST["catselect"]; // all, lightning or empty.[/CODE]
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@nicelad_ukauthorAug 27.2007 — Thanks dodz,

Is there no way of making the Form put the 'cat=lighting' in the title bar too? As this is the way forward I would prefer to go.

Thanks for all your help.

Richard
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@dodzAug 27.2007 — You're welcome.....

oh...by the way... use this on the form:
[CODE]<form method="get" >[/CODE]
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