transfer variable value to another

[2mhzbrain]

<div>
                    <?php
                    include 'connect.php';

                    if(isset($_GET['id'])){

                    $page_id = $_GET['id'];

                    $select_query = "SELECT * FROM articles WHERE articles_id='$page_id'";

                    $run_query = mysql_query($select_query);

                    while($row=mysql_fetch_array($run_query)){

                        $articles_id = $row['articles_id'];
                        $articles_date = $row['articles_date'];
                        $articles_title = $row['articles_title'];
                        $articles_category = $row['articles_category'];
                        $articles_image = $row['articles_image'];
                        $articles_content = $row['articles_content'];

                    ?>
                    <h3>
                    <a href="articlespage.php?id=<?php echo $articles_id; ?>">
                    <?php echo $articles_title; ?>
                    </a>
                    </h3>

                    <p><i>Published on <b><?php echo $articles_date; ?></b></i></p>

                    <center>
                    <img src="<?php echo $articles_image; ?>" width="300" height="250">
                    </center>

                    <p align="justify"><?php echo $articles_content; ?></p>

                    <hr>

                    <?php } } ?>

</div>

<div>


            <form method="post" action="articlespage.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">

                <table width="300" align="center" border="0">

                    <tr>
                        <td align="right">Name</td>
                        <td><input type="text" name="author"></td>
                    </tr>

                    <tr>
                        <td align="right">Email</td>
                        <td><input type="text" name="email"></td>
                    </tr>


                    <tr>
                        <td align="right">Comment</td>
                        <td><textarea type="text" name="content" cols="30" rows="10"></textarea></td>
                    </tr>

                    <tr>
                        <td align="center" colspan="6"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Publish Now"></td>
                    </tr>

                </table>
            </form>


            <?php
            include 'connect.php';
            if (isset($_POST['submit'])){


            // my problem is
            // i cannot get the article_id to store it on com_art_id,
            // the articles_id is already showing on url bar
            // i have no idea how to place it on com_art_id





            ////     $com_art_id = $articles_id;
                 $comment_date = date('d-m-y');
                 $comment_name = $_POST['author'];
                 $comment_email = $_POST['email'];
                 $comment_content = $_POST['content'];

                if ($comment_name=='' or $comment_email=='' or $comment_content==''){

                    echo '<center><b><font color="red">All fields are required.</font></b></center>';

                }else{

                    $insert_query = "INSERT INTO comments(com_art_id, comment_date, comment_name, 
                    comment_email, comment_content) 
                    VALUES('$com_art_id', '$comment_date', '$comment_name', '$comment_email', '$comment_content')";

                    if(mysql_query($insert_query)){

                        //echo "<center>Submitted sucessfully.</center>";
                        header("Location: articlespage.php?");
                    }

                }



            }
            ?>

</div>

[JorgeM]

Can you provide more information? how is anyone supposed to figure out what to do with the title and code you provided?

A more detailed description of the problem, what you are trying to accomplish, etc.. will likely get you more help.

[2mhzbrain]

sorry, i included it on comment, my problem is i cannot get the article_id to store it on com_art_id, the articles_id is already showing on url bar, i have no idea how to place it on com_art_id, can i use GET function? show me how to do it, im realy new at php

[JorgeM]

Ok, i see it in your code as commented...

Refer to this page in the online PHP manual: http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.get.php

If you want to get the query string, use $_GET

Say your URL is articlespage.php?id=1, your code to get that query string parameter called "id" would be... $_GET["id"]

Therefore... $com_art_id = $_GET["id"]; should work.

You should consider performing some check(s) prior to assuming that the value in the query string is going to be a value you expect.

[2mhzbrain]

$com_art_id = $_GET["id"];

this doesnt work, also please tell me why year is always wrong and all months and days are 1-14, it always saved 0 as com_art_id

[pritaeas]

$comment_date = date('d-m-y');

Should be:

$comment_date = date('Y-m-d');

[2mhzbrain]

$comment_date = date('Y-m-d');

this solved the date, i still cant put article_id as the value of com_art_id

[pritaeas]

$com_art_id never gets a value.

[2mhzbrain]

how to place article id on a user comment so that if user submitted the comment, it will have the article id, then we can show all comments for specific article

[2mhzbrain]

$com_art_id = $_GET["id"]
solved my problem, thank you sirs