Ok i have this form that u fill out a short Q&A, and when done u hit the submit button and it automatically emails it to me. But i was wondering...on the page before it it asks for ur name and/or email, and it uses the default form method-to add it to the url after an "?" symbol. Is there a way to be able to have the form take that information (wats after the "?" symbol) and make it apart of that form...like in a text field or even better a hidden field?? Ive only started webmastery this year and im taking a course on it next year so im sort of clueless on the way forms work. Thanks

umm..since no one seems to have any ideas...ill restate what i want to do-I think this is a PHP question but im not for sure-but i have never used PHP so im clueless. On my website i have a short Q & A that comes after a form that you type in you email address and/or name. (It needs to work for either one, but one only) And the form uses the default method - where it puts an "&" and adds the form data to the end of the url. How can i make this data part of the new form thats on the Q & A page?

does anyone have any ideas plz?

Change the method attribute, in the form tag, to post(rather than get).

You also could use

PHP Code:

$values=$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$seperate=explode("?",$values);
/* $seperate[1] now contains the string that came after the question mark in your url. You can extract the values from the string however you want(i'd still use explode*/ 


<form method="post">
<input type="hidden" value="<?php echo $seperate[1];?>" name="urlvals" />
</form>

The string is now contained in the post variable(after form is submitted)
$_POST['urlvals']

You can pass dynamic variables thorough the querry string or through hidden fields. You can also add data to a database and extract the data on a different webpage. Hidden fields is recommended and a bit more secure than the querry string method. You will need to extract the data and define the variables within the php program.

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