Re: Trasfering a variable between two scripts

"J.R. Lillard" wrote: > this may be nothing, but i usually put the value following the href in > double quotes ("). to test to make sure that your detail script is running > correctly, though, you might look up what should be a valid id and go > directly to the url manually. so you'd have something along the lines of: > > http://whatever.com/document_detail.php?id=234 > > hmm...i don't remember if php variables are case-sensative or not. i'm a > little rusty. so your id variable might be getting passed as $ID and you > might be looking for $id. > > > > > I have a script written which generates a table from a Postrgre > > database(it > > lists two fields like "SELECT product_name, price FROM my database;"). I > > have an <A HREF=document_detail.php?ID='$id'>(where ID is the > > record number > > in the database) on each record With this links I want to call a > > new script > > which makes a "SELECT * FROM my database;", and generates the full product > > information. The links work fine but the output of the document_detail.php > > script is empty. I tried to echo > > the $id in this script and it showed me nothing. > > > > Can anybody Help me?????? also make sure that the link is actually being parsed by php for example: only url part as php: <A HREF="<?php echo "document_detail.php?ID=$id"; ?>">Link</a> or as all php: <?php echo "<a href=\"document_detail.php?ID=$id\">Link</a>"; ?> otherwise $ID on the referring page wont contain anything I think this is right anyways, as I have made this mistake myself Hope this helps Joseph Blythe