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Lect 21 Passing Variables Between Pages

The document discusses passing variables between web pages in PHP. It covers using super global variables like $_GET and $_POST to access form data submitted to another page. It also discusses accessing specific form elements like text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, and select lists. Finally, it discusses using sessions to pass variables across multiple pages by storing them in the $_SESSION super global.

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Lect 21 Passing Variables Between Pages

The document discusses passing variables between web pages in PHP. It covers using super global variables like $_GET and $_POST to access form data submitted to another page. It also discusses accessing specific form elements like text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, and select lists. Finally, it discusses using sessions to pass variables across multiple pages by storing them in the $_SESSION super global.

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Lecture 21

Passing Variables Between


Pages

Mr. Mubashir Ali


Lecturer (Dept. of Computer Science)
[email protected]
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Summary of the previous lecture
• Operators in PHP
• Conditional Statements in PHP
• Looping Statements
• Arrays in PHP

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Outline
• Super Global variables
• Passing form data
• Passing data with sessions

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1. Passing form data
• Forms provide a mean of submitting
information from the client to the server
• We can create HTML forms using <form>
tag
• Method and action are the most
common attributes of <form>

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1. Passing form data…
• action - gives the URL of the application
that is to receive and process the forms
data
• method - sets the HTTP method that the
browser uses to send the form's data to
the server for processing
– most common methods are POST or GET

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1. Passing form data…
• Get method : all form data is encoded
into the URL, appended the action URL
as query string parameters
Asad

[email protected]
submit

Action page name Input field Value entered


name by user
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1. Passing form data…
• Post method: form data appears within
the message body of the HTTP request

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1.1 Super Global Variables
• PHP automatically makes few variables
available in your program
• These are array variables and can be
accessed by name
• These variables are called super-global
variables because they can be accessed
without regard to scope
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1.1 Super Global Variables…
• $_GET: contains all the query string
variables that were attached to the URL
• $_POST: contains all the submitted
form variables and their data

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1.1 Super Global Variables…
<body> Asad
<form method=“get”
action=“action.php”> [email protected]
<input type=“text” name=“name”> submit
<input type=“text” name=“email”>
<input type=“submit”>
</form>
</body>

name email
$_GET
Asad [email protected]
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1.1 Super Global Variables…
<body> Asad
<form method=“post”>
<input type=“text” name=“name”> [email protected]
<input type=“text” name=“email”> submit
<input type=“submit”>
</form>
</body>

$_POST
Asad [email protected]
name email

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1.2 Accessing form data on action page
name email
$_GET
Asad [email protected]

Ation.php
Asad
<?php
[email protected] $name = $_GET[‘name’];
submit $email = $_GET[‘email’];
?>

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1.2 Accessing form data on action page…
name email
$_POST
Asad [email protected]

Ation.php
Asad
<?php
[email protected] $name = $_POST[‘name’];
submit $email = $_POST[‘email’];
?>

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2. Passing text field data

Post Method

Text field Text field


name

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2. Passing text field data…

Data is received

Display a message

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2. Passing text field data…
We are at form page

We are on
action page

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2. Passing hidden field data…

Hidden Field name Hidden value


field

Accessing hidden value

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2. Passing hidden field data…

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2.3 Getting value from checkbox
name value
label

Getting
value of ‘C’

Getting value
of ‘VB’

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2.3 Getting value from checkbox…

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2.3 Getting value from checkbox…

Checking for value of C

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2.4 Getting value from radio button
Same name Value is set

Value is not set

Getting value of
radio

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2.4 Getting value from radio button…

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2.5 Getting value from select list
Name of the list

Option and value

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2.5 Getting value from select list…

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3. Passing variables using sessions
1. A session is basically a temporary set of
variables that exists only until the browser
has shut down
2. $_SESSION: represents data available to a
PHP script that has previously been stored in
a session

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3. Passing variables using sessions…
name email
$_SESSION
Asad [email protected]

First page 2nd page nth page


<?php <?php <?php
$_SESSION[‘name ‘] echo echo
=‘Asad’; $_SESSION[‘name ‘]; $_SESSION[‘name ‘];
?> $_SESSION[‘email ‘] ……. echo
=‘[email protected]’; $_SESSION[‘email ‘];
?> ?>

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3. Passing variables using sessions
• session_start()- is used to start a session
• $_SESSION[‘variable_name’]- is used to store
data in session variable
• session_destroy()- is used to destroy a session
• unset($_SESSION[‘variable_name’])- is used to
unset a specific variable

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3. Passing variables using sessions…
Session starts

Session variable is
created

Link to the next


page

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3. Passing variables using sessions…
Session starts

Session variable is accessed

link

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3. Passing variables using sessions…

Session
variable’s value

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3. Passing variables using sessions…
Session is
destroyed

Session is
accessed

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3. Passing variables using sessions…

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Summary
• Super global variables
• Passing data with forms
• Using session variables

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References
• Chapter 2, “Beginning PHP6,Apache,Mysql
web development” by Matt Doyle, Wrox
publishers, 2009, ISBN: 0470413964
• Chapter 13, “Beginning PHP and MySQL” by
W. Jason Gilmore, Apress publisher, 4th
edition; 2010, ISBN-13 (electronic): 978-1-
4302-3115-8.

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