I understand how a PHP URL works - I think ... but I'm having problems getting the actual value of the variable to be passed in the example below.
Example
Note: I am adding the below form into a data cell (as part of a table being read via PHP).
$currentrowid = 1;
echo '<td>
<div class="editdelete">
<form action="phpindex.php?page=edit&thisrow=<?php echo $currentrowid;?>" method="post">
<input type="submit" value="Edit" >
</form>
</div>
</td>';
... Some other section of code to read the URL output by the form above:
$val = $_POST['thisrow'];
echo "the value is: " .$val; //Outputs "$currentrowid"
So, as you can see the code returns the actual name of the variable being passed, NOT the value of the variable being passed.
Any ideas here?