Topic awaiting preservation: Retrieving URL w/ PHP and posting in form?

Okay, what I'm trying to do is probably one of the simplest uses of PHP, I just don't know where to find out how to do it. This is it: I have a button that passes the part number to an order form. That's it. It passes it in the url as www.drisson.com/order2.php?pnum=200 for example...on that page, i have a form. I want the part number to be sent with the form. I can get the partnumber with parse_url(), I can show the partnumber on the page to the user, but I can't send it with the form...I tried just a <input type="hidden" name="partnumber" value=$pnum> but that isn't right. Is there a quick and simple answer to this, or do I have to do more complex encoding and whatnot?

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You don't need to parse the URL, key value pairs show up as variable pairs in PHP. the key is "in PHP"

<input type="hidden" name="partnumber" value="<?= $pnum ?>">

So you have to drop into PHP mode to echo it "<?=" is a shorthand in PHP for echo usefull in these types of situations



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