Question

Store a variable after reload page

Asked by: boy123

Recently I've asked a question about reloading page and I've got an answer which have the following code

document.location.href="<?=$PHP_SELF?>?id2="+obj.value;

It let me to keep a variable "id2" after reloading the page.
actually I am not quite understand the meaning of this piece of code, now I would like to store one more variable after reloading the page. It is just a variable declared in my php page, can I do this?
thanks

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2004-04-19 at 11:20:10ID20959438
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Answers

 

by: venkateshwarrPosted on 2004-04-19 at 11:51:38ID: 10862431

Here

$PHP_SELF is the name of the script file. If you add variable value pairs at the end of the page and the reloads, the values are sent to the page using get method.

to add one more variable use this.
document.location.href="<?=$PHP_SELF?>?id2="+obj.value+"&id3="+newvalue;

 

by: venkateshwarrPosted on 2004-04-19 at 11:52:47ID: 10862443

and this value is accessed in the php script
as

$newvalue = $_REQUEST['id3'];
or
$newvalue = $_GET['id3'];

 

by: MinutesPosted on 2004-04-19 at 12:14:00ID: 10862616

It seems my page cannot reload now, I think I did sth wrong.
what should I put in the newvalue?

for example, if the variable in the php page is $test, then the sentence should be the following?

document.location.href="<?=$PHP_SELF?>?id2="+obj.value+"&id3="+$test;

 

by: madwaxPosted on 2004-04-19 at 13:01:41ID: 10863021

@minutes

you have to differentiate between javascript and php. If you want to load a variable $test in the php page that the javascript link is going to it has to look like as follows:

document.location.href="<?=$PHP_SELF?>?id2="+obj.value+"&test=someValue";

in the php-page you get:

$id2 = $_GET['id2'] (as venkateshwarr wrote)
$test = $_GET['test'] (will get the value == someValue)

//jan

 

by: boy123Posted on 2004-04-19 at 13:32:29ID: 10863269

Actually "someValue" is selected by the user and I don't know it's actually value until the user select it.



<?php

    $var  = "1";

?>

How can I pass the value 1 to $test?

 

by: madwaxPosted on 2004-04-19 at 13:36:19ID: 10863297

by:

document.location.href="<?=$PHP_SELF?>?id2="+obj.value+"&test=<?=$var?>";

 

by: crazycomputersPosted on 2004-04-19 at 16:27:48ID: 10864529

Sessions are a more convenient way to deal with this:

<?php

session_start();    // call this at the beginning of your script

// this code saves the values (you'd use this at the end of your script)
$_SESSION['obj1'] = serialize($obj1);
$_SESSION['obj2'] = serialize($obj2);

// this code gets the values
$obj1 = unserialize($_SESSION['obj1']);
$obj2 = unserialize($_SESSION['obj2']);
// ... etc

?>

$_SESSION is an array where you can store arbitrary data that will persist between sessions.  See http://www.php.net/session for more information on sessions.

serialize() turns a PHP structure (such as an array or even an object) into a string.  unserialize() turns a string obtained with serialize() back into the PHP structure it was before it was serialized.

 

by: boy123Posted on 2004-04-19 at 18:11:40ID: 10864933

Sorry, but I just try to implement in this code but it doesn't work.

<html>
<head>
      <title>Main page for CSM</title>
</head>
<script>
function reload(form)
{
  document.location.href="<?=$PHP_SELF?>?select="+obj.value+"&scriptvalue=<?=$formvalue?>";

}
</script>
<body>
<?php
      $formvalue = "testing";  
                $scriptvalue1 = $_GET['scriptvalue'];
      echo $scriptvalue1;
?>
      
      <select name='select' onChange='reload(this)'>
      <option>a</option>
      <option>b</option>
      </select>
      
</body>
</html>

 

by: TheClickMasterPosted on 2004-04-19 at 20:32:44ID: 10865565

You have to give a value to $formvalue above the  

document.location.href="<?=$PHP_SELF?>?select="+obj.value+"&scriptvalue=<?=$formvalue?>";

line.





<html>
<head>
     <title>Main page for CSM</title>
</head>
<script>

<?php $formvalue="testing";  ?>

function reload(form)
{
  document.location.href="<?=$PHP_SELF?>?select="+obj.value+"&scriptvalue=<?=$formvalue?>";

}
</script>
<body>
<?php
                $scriptvalue1 = $_GET['scriptvalue'];
     echo $scriptvalue1;
?>
     
     <select name='select' onChange='reload(this)'>
     <option>a</option>
     <option>b</option>
     </select>
     
</body>
</html>

 

by: boy123Posted on 2004-04-20 at 02:09:47ID: 10867054

Is it necessary for me to hard code the value of $formvalue, as I said, I don't know its value, it is selected by user.

 

by: boy123Posted on 2004-04-20 at 06:44:17ID: 10868734

Use session is a good idea !!
finally I use session and it work fine

 

by: crazycomputersPosted on 2004-04-20 at 10:21:03ID: 10870711

Glad it worked!  =)

Can you close the session now?

 

by: crazycomputersPosted on 2004-04-20 at 10:22:40ID: 10870723

Oh you did close it.  Silly me.

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