RE: [SLUG] HTML : Parsing values to a text box via the URL address line

["Matt" <icq2000site@nospam.hotmail.com>]

The installation of PHP with Apache (and often MySQL) is actually quite 
tricky for linux newbies like myself. There are good tutorials on 
Devshed.com Linuxnewbie.org and Webmonkey.com but I never seem to be able to 
successfully install the required components (maybe some installfest I will 
:(

Also, I heard that PHP is installed by default on Suse 6.3 and 6.4 happily 
running with Apache and even MySQL, but I recently did a "complete install" 
of SuSe 6.4 and found nothing

I wonder what the rest of the SLUGers think of PHP installation


Good luck with that George,

Regards, Matt

>From: George Vieira <georgev@nospam.citadelcomputer.com.au>
>To: slug@nospam.slug.org.au
>Subject: RE: [SLUG] HTML -- Parsing values to a text box via the URL Addre 
>ss line
>Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 06:45:27 +1000
>
>I'm running Linux but I have no experience what so ever in PHP. I'm not 
>even
>sure if PHP is enabled by default. I saw some things in
>/etc/httpd/conf/srm.conf (i think) that had PHP NOT remarked but not sure 
>if
>it handles it.
>
>I just wanted something simple to pull the data in, even if it's 
>javascript.
>have a look at the page on http://hexidecimal.cls-tech.com and click the
>sign up page.
>
>That's the culprit.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Zverina [mailto:david@nospam.altkey.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 11:35 PM
>To: slug@nospam.slug.org.au; Matt Allen
>Subject: RE: [SLUG] HTML -- Parsing values to a text box via the URL
>Address line
>
>
>Actually it is pretty easy to do via Javascript. There's example in the
>O'Reilly's Rhino book which breaks up the param=value&v2=p2... type 
>strings.
>Of course if you're lazy like me and have control of the URL you can cheat
>and simply pass a delimited string (in my case using "+"). In which case 
>use
>the following Javascript fragment.
>
>sstr = self.location.search;
>values = sstr.substr(1);
>a = values.split("+");
>document.write("String 1 is ");
>document.write(a[0]);
>
>etc ...
>
>However the Javascript option is only preferable when you cannot get your
>hands onto PHP. E.g. when the client refuses to have php installed on their
>IIS server. :-(
>
>Dave.
>--
>David Zverina
>Alt Key Pty. Ltd.
>http://www.altkey.com
>PO Box 3121, Parramatta, 2124, Australia
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-slug@nospam.newtreno.spectrum.com.au
> > [mailto:owner-slug@nospam.newtreno.spectrum.com.au]On Behalf Of Matt Allen
> > Sent: Wednesday, 31 May 2000 17:12
> > Cc: 'slug@nospam.slug.org.au'
> > Subject: Re: [SLUG] HTML -- Parsing values to a text box via the URL
> > Address line
> >
> >
> > George,
> >
> > You'll need some sort of ServerSide scripting to make this happen
> > easily, you *might* be able to do it via javascipt too if you search
> > hard.
> >
> > Have a look at PHP (www.php.net)
> >
> > Matta
> >
> > George Vieira wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Does anybody know how do you pass information to a HTML page to
> > fill a form
> > > eg.
> > > In an email sent to you.. you might have:
> > >
> > >
> > http://register.domain.com.au/signup.html?formName=George&formEmai
> > l=georgev@nospam.
> > > citadelcomputer.com.au
> > >
> > > This doesn't work for me, and I'm not sure it's suppose to or
> > if the syntax
> > > is right?
> > >
> > > Any help?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > George Vieira
> > > Network Administrator
> > > Citadel Computer Systems P/L
> > > http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au
> > >
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