How to collect info in a form and send it in a url string? 2

[jburnard]

Hello Folks!

This is my first post, very glad to find this site!

I recently purchased a set of php scripts that manage email lists for you. If you put them on your server and use certain commands via a url string it will let people add their emails to a list etc.

My questions is: If I create a form for people to submit their email, first name, etc. how do I then plug that information into URL? I know how to create the URL to access my list manager I just don't know how to incorporate people from the web giving me their info and then creating the correct URL string. I hope that makes sense.

Thank yo for reading!

 

[vacunita]

when you create your form set its method to GET, this will automatically take everything from the form and stick it into the URL.

For example:

<form action="phpscript.php" [red]method="GET"[/red]>
Name: <input type=text name="persons_name">
Email: <input type=text name="email">

<input type=submit name="send" value="Add to list"> 
</form>

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[jburnard]

Ah right of course. Thank you for the quick reply. I should have been more specific in my question though. For example here is my url string.

ww.mywebsite.com/mlm/mlm.php?cmd=subscribe&list=LIST_NAME&email=useremail@whatever.com&firstname=whatever&lastname=whatever&company=whatever

So, where I put the bold "whatever" is the data I would get from the form but of course I still need to keep the rest of the url in tact.

Any idea how I would take the form data and get it into the appropriate places in that url string? Thanks again for reading!

 

[vacunita]

Just add hiiden fields for the paramaters that you don't want to change:

<form action="[URL unfurl="true"]www.mywebsite.com/mlm/mlm.php"[/URL] method="GET">
[red]<input type=hidden name=cmd value="subscribe">
<input type=hidden name="list" value="LIST_NAME">[/red]
<input type="text" name="email">
<input type="text" name="firstname">
<input type="text" name="lastname">
<input type="text" name="company">
<input type=submit name="send" value="process values">

</form>

That will generate the URL string in the same fashion you have it, but will replace the values for the contents of the input fields.




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Phil AKA Vacunita
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

 

[spamjim]

As this refers to PHP, realize there is also a nifty PHP forum here.

forum434

 

[jburnard]

Many thanks, this is just what I needed!