Re: Pass var from JavaScript to PHP

err...what javascript the form is HTML? Try... <form name="<NAME>" method="get OR post" action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF?>"> Then in your page have a php tag that checks for the presence of $Find (in your case), e.g. if ($Find) { sql = (SELECT * FROM table WHERE $criteria = "value"); then the rest... } -torrent "George Lioumis" <glioumis@adacom.com> wrote in message news:009401c16c3d$e529a0c0$05041fac@adacom.com... Good day to all! Consider the following code: <FORM ...> <INPUT type="Text" name="criteria" size="50"> <BR> <INPUT type="Button" name="Find" value="Find"> </FORM> I want to get the text that the user writes into the text field into a php variable to use it in the same page. I want to use this text as a criteria to search for an entry in my mySQL DB using a LIKE statement in the select. Does anyone knows how to do it? Thanx inadvance.