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MrMan9879 · Feb 25th, 2008, 10:50 PM

Hi guys, I have another question... this time about using forms and the $_GET method.

Basically, for the website I'm building I have a news posting system, and I want to have a page where you can edit the posts. When you go to the editing page, I want to be able to order it by ID or title name.

My editing page is on my index.php, but I have a few pages on there, and I use a $_GET variable to get to them.
ie. index.php?act=post index.php?act=edit

I'm also using a $_GET variable for ordering the news articles to edit/delete
ie. index.php?act=edit&sort=newsdesc

But, I'm wondering how I can send the form that holds the sort variable to the page and also keep the act variable. I thought it might be as simple as this:

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<form action="index.php?act=edit" method="get">
                <input type="radio" name="sort" value="newsdesc" />
           </form>

But, all this does is send it to index.php.

Does anyone know how I could accomplish this?

Feb 25th, 2008, 10:50 PM	#1
MrMan9879 Programmer Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Nanaimo, BC, Canada Posts: 95 Rep Power: 0	Sending Forms with GET variables from other forms Hi guys, I have another question... this time about using forms and the $_GET method. Basically, for the website I'm building I have a news posting system, and I want to have a page where you can edit the posts. When you go to the editing page, I want to be able to order it by ID or title name. My editing page is on my index.php, but I have a few pages on there, and I use a $_GET variable to get to them. ie. index.php?act=post index.php?act=edit I'm also using a $_GET variable for ordering the news articles to edit/delete ie. index.php?act=edit&sort=newsdesc But, I'm wondering how I can send the form that holds the sort variable to the page and also keep the act variable. I thought it might be as simple as this: (Toggle Plain Text) <form action="index.php?act=edit" method="get"> <input type="radio" name="sort" value="newsdesc" /> </form> <form action="index.php?act=edit" method="get"> <input type="radio" name="sort" value="newsdesc" /> </form> But, all this does is send it to index.php. Does anyone know how I could accomplish this?