use GET command not in a form

[Greenmethod]

I have a search page that outputs a list of customers as such...

echo "<center>" . "<td>" . "<p>" . "<b>" . "<a href='edit_cust.php'>" . $row["Shop"] . "</a>" . "</b>" . "</br>" . $row["Address"] . " </br>" . $row["City"] . ", " . $row["State"] . " ";

my question is this..

the "Shop" links to edit_cust.php and i would like it to go to edit_cust.php?Shop=Shopname using the GET command but I am not sure how to "name" the link. Any suggestions?

[Vege]

<a href='edit_cust.php?Shop={$row['Shop']}'>" . $row["Shop"] . "</a>
something like that?

[Greenmethod]

no, i think I have found what how I want to do it.. i can put a hidden form in it and then call it from the linked page. Does that sound like it would work?

[<h1>]

Yes hidden form fields are very useful in including variables in requests sent via forms

[Vege]

Why did i got an impression he didint want to send a form?

[Greenmethod]

I didn't want to send a form because I didn't know that you could do a hidden form and I didn't want to show the info on the page. Since I can do a hidden form, it will work great but for some reason I can't get it to work right...

Here is my code that links to the next page and has the hidden form...


function display_cust($result,$num_rows)
{
$num_rows = mysql_num_rows($result);
echo "<center>" . "<p>" . $num_rows . " customer(s) found." . "</center>";
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result,MYSQL_BOTH))
{
echo "<center>" . "<td>" . "<p>" . "<b>" . "<a href='cust_info.php'>" . $row["Shop"] . "</a>" . "</b>" . "</br>" . $row["Address"] . " </br>" . $row["City"] . ", " . $row["State"] . " ";
if(strlen($row["Zip"]) != 5)
{
echo Zip($row["Zip"]) . "<br>" . phone_number($row["Shop_num"]) . "<p>" . "<td>" . "</center>";
}
else
{
echo $row["Zip"] . "<br>" . phone_number($row["Shop_num"]) . "<p>" . "<td>" . "</center>";
}
echo "<form method='GET'>";
echo "<input type='hidden' name='cust_no' value={$row["Cust_No"]}>";
echo "</form>";
}
}


and here is the next page...


<?php
include("index.php");
require_once('db_con.php');


$cust_no = $_GET["cust_no"];
echo "Customer Number: " . "$cust_no";
?>

[Greenmethod]

ok... so i guess i've figured out that it isn't passing the data because there is no "submit" button, just a link. My question is.. how would I do this?

I have a page that searches for customers by the city and brings up all customers in my database with that city. I want to link the customer's name to a page, cust_info.php, that i can look at the customers information, but I don't want to have a page for every single customer.

[Greenmethod]

did everybody go to lunch?

[Horus_Kol]

1. you can have a link which triggers an onclick event calling a javascript function to submit the hidden form.

2. the cust_info.php can be called with the customer name or other unique identifier in the querystring (e.g., cust_info.php?name=Bob%20Terwilliger) and pulled out using the GET array (e.g., $_GET['name']) so it can then be used as part of the database query which pulls the customer info out.

3. please don't bump threads...