Re: setting a global var so that all pages can see var still :(

How would i pass tablename in the submit button? Check out edit record u wil see http://thor.ancilenetworks.co.uk/~pferrie/vinrev/adm/myadmin.html Cheers Paul "Paul Ferrie" <info@innovativedesigns.org.uk> wrote in message news:20031117113223.77893.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Hello again guys, thanks for the help over the past 48 hours :) > > Over the past week i have had the job of tweaking the php pages of a friends > site. so far so good :) > > Now i am onto the admin area for running the website. I downloaded one of > the many db managers scripts from www.hotscripts.com > Luckly its a very simple app, easy to mod. Anyways most of my php knowledge > is in conjuction with flash www.innovativedesigns.org.uk. most of the > problems i have had here have been fairly simple to learn and fix. > > Now the job this week is with php+html (total newbie to this area). most of > the problems i have been able to fix with some help from here as well. > > >http://thor.ancilenetworks.co.uk/~pferrie/vinrev/adm/myadmin.html > > ~This is the admin area. I manged to get the drop down menu working to > select the revelent table and then set $tablename with the result being > displayed in the next page as: > <? > print "MyAdmin database for <i>$tablename</i> table"; > ?> > The new page has 4 links to load other php files to edit,delete, view, and > add new data to the DB > On the links have: > <a href="edit.php?tablename=$tablename">View database</a><br> > > ~Now in the edit.php i have : > $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM $tablename")or die("couldnt select > table"); > > $tablename is not being passed with the link. > > What am i missing? > > > Cheers > Paul