PHP Increment/Decrement

[Shade_of_Gray]

Forms can be submitted either by POST or by GET. If you don't specify a "method" attribute, it'll default to GET.

Since your PHP script looks for the variable in the POST variable, it doesn't find it. Change your <form> tag to this:

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<form method="POST">

[jadecook]

Now it doesn't do anything but take me back to the top of the page /:

[not_essence2]

I believe that what you just described means everything is correct except you just need to tell it to refresh to a different page, not the same one. (Taking you back to the top is most likely the web page being reloaded, now you just need to load a different page)

[jadecook]

But I don't want to reload a different page, I want to reload the same page with a different variable.

[Shade_of_Gray]

It looks like your problem is that it doesn't know which page you're on. Try adding a hidden input field to your form.

http://www.tizag.com/htmlT/htmlhidden.php

Call the name of this hidden field "page", and use your PHP script to set the value to the $page variable in your code. That way, when you click "next" or "previous," it'll know which page you're on so it knows which page is actually next (or previous).

[not_essence2]

Oh. Never mind. Idiot me strikes again.

[jadecook]

It keeps reloading the page and starting at the top, but won't go to the next page.
This is the URL:

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http://mysite.com/preview/preview.php?job=california



And this is what I got for the source:

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<?php
$location = $_REQUEST['nav'];
$page = $_POST['page'];
if (isset($_POST['next']))
{
   $page++;
}
else if (isset($_POST['previous']))
{
   $page--;
}

if ($page <= 1)
{
   echo "<script src='http://myblog.tumblr.com/tagged/" . $_REQUEST["job"] . "/js' type='text/javascript'></script>";
}
else
{
   echo "<script src='http://myblog.tumblr.com/tagged/" . $_REQUEST["job"] . "page/" . $_REQUEST["page"] . "/js' type='text/javascript'></script>";
}
?>
<form method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="navigation" value="location" />
<input type="submit" name="previous" value="previous">
<input type="submit" name="next" value="next">
</form>



[Shade_of_Gray]

Keep in mind that the name of the HTML tag is going to be the key in the PHP associative array. Since your hidden field's name is "navigation", you'll need to use $_POST['navigation'] to access it.

Also, to set the value of the tags with PHP:

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<input type="hidden" name="navigation" value="<? echo $location; ?>" />

-- Mon Nov 26, 2012 6:23 pm --

Keep in mind that the name of the HTML tag is going to be the key in the PHP associative array. Since your hidden field's name is "navigation", you'll need to use $_POST['navigation'] to access it.

Also, to set the value of the tags with PHP:

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<input type="hidden" name="navigation" value="<? echo $location; ?>" />

[jadecook]

I just can't seem to get this...
Keep doing little things here and there, but nothing seems to work.

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<?php
$location = $_REQUEST['nav'];
$page = $_POST['page'];
if (isset($_POST['next']))
{
   $page++;
}
else if (isset($_POST['previous']))
{
   $page--;
}

if ($page <= 1)
{
   echo "<script src='http://myblog.tumblr.com/tagged/" . $_REQUEST["job"] . "/js' type='text/javascript'></script>";
}
else
{
   echo "<script src='http://myblog.tumblr.com/tagged/" . $_REQUEST["job"] . "page/" . $page . "/js' type='text/javascript'></script>";
}
?>

<form method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="navigation" value="location" />
<input type="submit" name="previous" value="previous">
<input type="submit" name="next" value="next">
<input type="hidden" name="navigation" value="<?php echo $location; ?>" />
</form>

</center>

[pickles0703]

Remove your first element with the name navigation. Then at the top of the page put $location = $_REQUEST['navigation']. It seems as if you are grabbing a form variable that doesn't exist. Try reviewing how to capture form inputs. I wrote a tutorial on this, I hope it helps PHP Get and Post Variables