Re: Re: Passing variable to a page in a frameset

On 8/15/08, Dan Shirah <mrsquash2@gmail.com> wrote: > > GET should work too. Do you know of any examples anywhere online for >>> this? My brain shuts off at the thought of how I'd do that. >>> >>> - jody >> >> > When you GET a value you are retrieving a passed value that appears in the > address bar: > Example > > http://www.mysite.com?name=joe > <http://www.mysite.com/?name=joe> > > www.mysite.com is the website > > ?name=joe is the value being passed by GET > > To put this value into a PHP variable you would simply do: > <?php > $name = $_GET['name']; > ?> > Although, since you have no control over the actual search page to edit the code and have it pull in the $_GET[''] values you will probably have to disect the search page to get its form elements so you can feed them to it and force a submit. I just looked at your site, and after I input my search criteria and click submit I have to again enter in the search criteria and submit to actually get some results.