I am trying to create my form to $_GET for bookmarks later down the road. Currently whenever I have tried to $_GET my value, it always sends me to the page I made default on load. One thing I have tried was using a hidden value Using this line of code (Commented it out in my example below of where I tried it):
<input type='hidden' value='<?=$topic?>'/>
I have a web url:
https://mywebpage.com/testphp.php?topic=home.php
The reason for the topic=home.php is that I am going to be switching pages all from the testphp.php page and each will have their own seperate form. If the webpage is loaded with topic=null or topic = "", then it will default to home.php.
When I am creating a HTML Form (Pretty Basic for now) on home.php, omitted everything except the form:
<form id = "test" method = "GET">
<!--<input type='hidden' value='<?=$topic?>'/>-->
<input type="text" name="firstname" Value = '<?=$fname?>' onchange="rememberField(this)">
<input type="Submit" name="Search" >
</form>
Using $_GET for "firstname" on my subpage.php
<?php
include 'index.php';
$fname = "";
$reqmethod = $_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"];
if($reqmethod == "GET") {
$fname = $_GET["firstname"];
}
?>
Gathers the "firstname" as it should, and use it to input into the SQL that I create, but the thing it doesn't do is maintain the firstname=ben part.
Instead the new web url looks like this, which will default to home.php:
https://mywebpage.com/testphp.php?firstname=ben
The expected result that I want is:
https://mywebpage.com/testphp.php?topic=home.php&firstname=ben
