Post comand

[J. Landman Gay]

Devin Asay asked me to post this for him, as he is having trouble 
sending to the list (I suspect the new IP hasn't propagated to his 
provider yet.)

He can read your responses, so fire away.

========= From Devin: =========

I need to send some data to a php page on a web server, just a short 
string like "abc2". I've read all I can find on the post command in  the 
documentation, but can't figure out how to format the data so the  php 
script will read it.

My stack:
contents of fld "uid": "abc2"
(I also tried [ name="netid" value="dna3" ] as the value of the  field. 
Sans the [].)

the post button script:
on mouseUp
   post urlencode(fld "uid") to url fld "urlText" -- also tried  without 
urlencode
   set the htmltext of fld "returnedText" to it
end mouseUp

The result returned makes it obvious that the php script executed,  but 
never received the value "abc2".

FWIW, the php script (one I wrote, that works when I hard code 
everything) uses the $POST_[value name here] format to grab the data.  I 
am a neophyte in php land, but have used this method successfully  in 
the past to pass values from html forms.

There are no clear examples of how to do this in the docs, and the  list 
archive at http://lists.runrev.com seems to be offline at the  moment. 
Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Devin

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University




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