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    Passing variables between pages

    Khizra Hanif, Department of Software


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    Summary of the previous lecture
    • Operators in PHP
    • Conditional Statements in PHP
    • Looping Statements
    • Arrays in PHP
    • functions

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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

    asd@gmail.com
    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…
    <html>
    <body> Asad
    <form action="welcome_get.php" method="get">
    Name: <input type="text" name="name"><br> asd@gmail.com
    E-mail: <input type="text" name="email"><br>
    <input type="submit"> submit
    </form>

    </body>
    </html>

    name email
    $_GET
    Asad asd@gmail.com
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    Accessing form data on action page
    name email
    $_GET
    Asad asd@gmail.com

    page name: "welcome_get.php"


    Asad <html>
    <body>
    asd@gmail.com Welcome <?php echo $_GET["name"]; ?><br>
    Your email address is: <?php echo
    submit $_GET["email"]; ?>

    </body>
    </html>

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    1.2 Super Global Variables…
    <html>
    <body> Asad

    <form action="welcome.php" method="post"> asd@gmail.com


    Name: <input type="text" name="name"><br>
    E-mail: <input type="text"
    name="email"><br> submit
    <input type="submit">
    </form>

    </body>
    </html>

    $_POST
    Asad asd@gmail.com
    name email

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    Accessing form data on action page…
    name email
    $_POST
    Asad asd@gmail.com

    page name:welcome.php
    <html>
    Asad <body>

    asd@gmail.com Welcome <?php echo $_POST["name"]; ?><br>


    Your email address is: <?php echo
    submit $_POST["email"]; ?>

    </body>
    </html>

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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 asd@gmail.com

    First page 2nd page nth page


    <?php <?php <?php
    $_SESSION[‘name ‘] echo echo
    =‘Asad’; $_SESSION[‘name ‘]; $_SESSION[‘name ‘];
    ?> $_SESSION[‘email ‘] ……. echo
    =‘asd@gmail.com’; $_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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