Passing Hidden Variables

[marzi]

I a am starting with an html page that passes two hidden variables (Make and Model) to a php form page using "POST".

On the php form page the hidden variables fill in two separate text boxes using the following code: <?php echo $HiddenVariable; ?> and also print out on the page elsewhere on the page.

On the php form page the user completes the form.
The php form is submitted to formmail.php to be processed.

My problem is that the variables Make and Model do not print out on the good_url-tmpl.html page nor on the the tmpl.txt page.

Is it possible to do so?

By the way I am running a number of forms sucessfully using formmail.php on ths ame web site. They all submit directly from an html page to formmail.php and all works well.

Thanks,

marzi

[ginger23]

Hi,

Do you have a url that you can post ... or the complete form code? (I'm referring to the form that's submitted to formmail.php.)

Did you "name" the text fields that you dynamically provided a value for in the form that posts to formmail.php? Did you use that exact field name in your template?

ginger

[marzi]

If you want to try it start here and clikc on the Request Quote button.
http://www.antenen.com/htdocs/AA-quote/test1.htm

I got the sequence to work finally by changing the extension of my good_url template to "php" and also embedding the two variables being passed along the way in the template file.

<input type="hidden" name="Make" value="<?php echo $Make; ?>">
<input type="hidden" name="Model" value="<?php echo $Model; ?>">

Thanks for offering to take a look and reaching out a helping hand.

[ginger23]

Hi,

I don't think you should have to give the template a php extension. The values should be passed to formmail.php as long as they're in the form that's posting to formmail.php. Were the other fields available to the template before renaming with a php extension?

One thing I did notice is that you have the fields twice, once as a hidden field and then as a text field. Why twice? Anyway, you're missing a quotation mark before the value in the text input fields. This is what you have:

name=Make"
name=Model"

That might be causing problems.

ginger