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please can php variables be transfered from one page to another not in forms? eg

index.php
<?php
$name = "yaro dan baba";
$surname = "dan yaro";
<html>
<body>
<a href="friends.php"><?php echo "$name";?></a>
</body>
</head>

?>

when the $name is clicked it leads to friends.php and on the friends.php page a new variable is declared but with same value as $surname
friends.php
<?php

$re = $surname; //or so am not so sure how this is done please this is where i am stuck


just like the $_POST or $_GET for forms i want to try the one for hyperlinks please

<a href="friends.php?surname=<?php echo $surname;?>"><?php echo $name;?></a>

Also, u might wanna get rid of the spaces between the words in those variables. You could either replace the spaces with hyphens or underscores or assign each word to a separate variable, attach them to the hyperlink like so:

<a href="friends.php?surname1=<?php echo $surname1;?>&surname2=<?php echo $surname2;?>">
<?php echo $name;?>
</a>

then on the friends.php page, you concatenate the variables. Good luck!

thanks blood. let me try it out

no yawa.

By the way, You will have to use $_GET on the friends.php page, since you are getting the values passed via url. There's no escaping that. It doesn't apply to only forms. Also, personally, I prefer $_REQUEST, which covers both POST and GET, to using either-or.

good luck!

$_REQUEST is beter

in real time development u hardly see $_GET cos of input data privacy,

Yawa I dont see how your solution will work for this guy o. From what I am understanding from his first post, he wants the value of a variable in index.php to be transfered to friend.php.

Well i just work up and i'm still seeing double but here is what I am thinking should work as a solution.

Index.php

<?php
session_start();
$name = "yaro";
$surname = "dan";
$_SESSION['surname'] = $surname;
?>
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<a href="friends.php"><?php echo "$name";?></a>
</body>
</html>

friend.php

<?php
session_start();
$re = $_SESSION['surname'];
?>

Well, there is more than 1 way to skin a cat. Your solution works too. Of course, the argument now, given the original post, becomes which method is more efficient. that, I will leave for the pros to answer