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Passing a title from page 1 to a form field
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 10:15 am
by Chaal
Hi,
Just found this site. It's great
I am somewhat a newb here so please be gentle with me
I have a page that shows vacancies, now what I would like to do is be able to click a link to the online application form, but when I do that it takes the job title and puts it in the correct form field on the online application form.
Is this easy ti do?
I don't need it going to a database or anything.
Thanking you
Chaal
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 11:07 am
by m3rajk
have you used forms before?
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 11:24 am
by JayBird
make this the link to your application form
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<a href="somefile.php?title=someJobTitle>Apply Online</a>
Then on the page with your form, in the text field
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<input type="text" name="jobTitle" value="<? echo $_GET['title'] ?>">
Shoudl work a treat
Mark
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 11:57 am
by Chaal
Hey thanks for that.
I will give it a try
By the way can this be used with more than 1 form field?
All the best
Chaal
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 12:03 pm
by JayBird
Chaal wrote:
By the way can this be used with more than 1 form field?
You sure can!
Have a bash with the example i gave you, then if you have any more problems, just post here an we will try and help ya out.
Mark
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 12:16 pm
by Chaal
So on the page I would put something like:
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<a href="somefile.php?title=someJobTitle&ref=somereference>Apply Online</a>
Thanks a bunch for the guidance

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 1:08 pm
by JayBird
yup, you got it

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 1:20 pm
by Chaal
Cool,
Thanks for your help

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 2:02 pm
by JayBird
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 4:22 pm
by Chaal
Hi there,
I think I have run into a problem with the reference number idea. If this is manually entered on the first page say, ref:2003 I am not sure how I would actually pull that into the form as its not gonna be found using:
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<a href="somefile.php?title=someJobTitle&ref=somereference>Apply Online</a>
I guess I would need to wrap the reference in a tag of some sort.
Not 100% sure here.
Thanks