How do I pass data to an HTML page so that it can edit it?

On 13-Jul-2003, "Robert Oschler" <no_replies@fake_email_address.invalid>
wrote:

> Suppose I have a web page that allows the site visitor to enter a Record
> ID
> via a form edit field. The FORM's action is to submit the data to a PHP
> script running on my server (which also contains the HTML page). I want
> to
> display the record's data (happens to be a MySQL record), in a new HTML
> page
> with the record's data plugged into the HTML page's edit fields.
>
> I know I can build an HTML page with embedded Javascript snippets that set
> the new HTML page's edit field values, but this seems like overkilll. I'd
> rather have another static HTML page on the server, and somehow have my
> PHP
> script get it displayed in the site visitor's browser with the edit fields
> filled in. I know I can use header+location to cause a redirect, but I'd
> rather not pass a huge URL string with the record's data as search
> arguments, to be plucked out of the URL by Javascript in the HTML page, to
> be plugged into the edit fields.
>
> Is there an intelligent way to do this on the server side, or should I
> just
> hunker down and build the field display HTML page dynamically, instead of
> using a static one?

Yes.
--
Tom Thackrey
www.creative-light.com

Tom Thackrey wrote:
> On 13-Jul-2003, "Robert Oschler" <no_replies@fake_email_address.invalid>
> wrote:
>
>
>>Suppose I have a web page that allows the site visitor to enter a Record
>>ID
>>via a form edit field. The FORM's action is to submit the data to a PHP
>>script running on my server (which also contains the HTML page). I want
>>to
>>display the record's data (happens to be a MySQL record), in a new HTML
>>page
>>with the record's data plugged into the HTML page's edit fields.
>>
>>I know I can build an HTML page with embedded Javascript snippets that set
>>the new HTML page's edit field values, but this seems like overkilll. I'd
>>rather have another static HTML page on the server, and somehow have my
>>PHP
>>script get it displayed in the site visitor's browser with the edit fields
>>filled in. I know I can use header+location to cause a redirect, but I'd
>>rather not pass a huge URL string with the record's data as search
>>arguments, to be plucked out of the URL by Javascript in the HTML page, to
>>be plugged into the edit fields.
>>
>>Is there an intelligent way to do this on the server side, or should I
>>just
>>hunker down and build the field display HTML page dynamically, instead of
>>using a static one?
>
>
> Yes.

I had the same problem but now I have it working. Take a look at the
soucecode of members.lycos.nl/****fennema (input should be '101', 'cause
I only have 1 record in the MySQL database for testing)
It doesn't look good because I only focussed on the technical (PHP) part
of it not on the layout.
I work with frames.

Good luck.