making a variable durable on redirect

[ppgpilot]

Greetings to the group...

I would like to pass a variable from the first page form to a thrid page - but the third page is reached through a redirect from the second page: header (location etc.php) not a SUBMIT and POST.

I thought of $_SESSIONS but did not think this to be the best approach.

Or GLOBALS.

and I heard something somewhere about a PHP version of style sheets and maybe that is the answer.

Any advice out there?

David

[sypher]

You could use in the redirect url?variablename=vairablevalue

So you could then GET the value on the next pages.

[ppgpilot]

Thanks for the response!

GET work well -

I am trying another approach that seems promising - let me know if there is a potential problem that I'm not seeing -

On the site I am creating, I need some variables for most pages so I post them in a "defined_variables.php" file. Every page requires_once this page and the variables are always there for me...

To solve the problem I wrote about, making a variable available to a page without using POST several pages later, I can simply write the $var to this defined_variables.php file....Yes?

Still Learning...

David

[sypher]

yep that could work.

You could also use constants.