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Passing variables in php forms to another page

I am a bit new to PHP and forms. I'm trying to send some variables from one page to another in a PHP form.

This is the form:

<form name="dates" action="document_creation/7bform.php" method="post"  onsubmit="return mandatoryFields()">
  <table width="748" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2">
    <tr>
      <td class="main_text">
        <div align="right" class="main_text">*Contract Start Date:</div>
      </td>
      <td>
        <input name="start_date" type="text" value="YYYY-MM-DD" maxlength="100" class="datepick" id="date1" />
      </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td class="main_text">
        <div align="right" class="main_text">*Contract End Date:</div>
      </td>
      <td>
        <input name="end_date" type="text" value="YYYY-MM-DD" maxlength="100" class="datepick" id="date2" />
      </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td height="36" colspan="2">
        <table width="100" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
          <tr>
            <td width="68"> <input name="submit" type="submit" id="Submit" value="Generate 7B Form" <?php if($disable ==1){?>disabled<?php }?>/></td>
            <td width="48">
              <label><input type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset" /></label>
            </td>
            <td width="46"><div align="center"><a href="javascript:history.go(-1);">Back</a></div></td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</form>

I want to pass start_date and end_date to another page document_creation/7bform.php and it's not working. document_creation/7bform.php looks like this:

<?php
     $start_date = ($_POST['start_date']);
     $end_date = ($_POST['end_date']);

When I try to print these variables, they come out as blank. Where am I going wrong?

Solution

  • Everything looks fine, so I think your function mandatoryFields() is returning false.

    Other than that, you may want to use this on your retrieving page:

    if(isset($_POST['start_date']) && !empty($_POST['start_date'])){
 // now assign values
}

if(isset($_POST['end_date']) && !empty($_POST['end_date'])){
 // now assign values
}