posting hidden value

Question

hey there, i have three pages: (1) bookingfacilities.php (2) booking_now.php (3) successfulbooking.php and they are link together.

i want to pass data from bookingfacilities.php to successfulbooking.php by using hidden field/value. however, my data doesn't get print out in successfulbooking.php.

here are my codes:

• from 'booking_now.php': $date="$day-$month-$year";

• from 'successfulbooking.php'; <input type="hidden" name="date" id="hiddenField" value="<?php print "$date" ?>"/>

i would greatly appreciate your help as my project is due tomorrow :(

Answer 1

You should never assume register_global_variables is turned on. Even if it is, it's deprecated and you should never use it that way.

Refer directly to the $_POST or $_GET variables. Most likely your form is POSTing, so you'd want your code to look something along the lines of this:

<input type="hidden" name="date" id="hiddenField" value="<?php echo $_POST['date'] ?>" />

If this doesn't work for you right away, print out the $_POST or $_GET variable on the page that would have the hidden form field and determine exactly what you want and refer to it.

echo "<pre>";
print_r($_POST);
echo "</pre>";