I have a action.php which does some processing involving a MySQL-Database. In action.php I generate a variable
$author
with a string in it. When the script terminates it calls test.php by
header('Location: ../test.php');
Now while test.html is shown, I want to display the content of the stringvariable
$author
in a html-element. Like
<h2>echo $author;</h2>
How do I achieve that? Thank you for any responses in advance.
You could put the contents of the $author in a session:
<?php
// action.php
session_start();
// Your code here
$_SESSION['author'] = $author;
// Redirect to test.php
<?php
// test.php
session_start();
echo '<h2>'. $_SESSION['author'] .'</h2>';
See:
you could store $author in a session variable or on the action.php page output a form with a hidden input with the value of $author and then submit it to test.php
to use session variables don't forget session_start(); and then $_SESSION['author'] = $author
In your action.php save your variable in session like this: $_SESSION['author'] = $author;
Then, in your test.php file you can use <h2><?php echo $_SESSION['author']; ?></h2>
Don't forget to start both .php files with calling session_start();
Use a template engine, e.g. Twig.
While you can use PHP itself as a template engine (include() your file and use <?=$var?> or <?php echo $var; ?> in it), using a real template engine is usually nicer as you won't even think about moving actual business logic into your templates when you have a good template engine.
Sounds like you are trying to pull author data from a database and display it in test.php. If so there is no need to "pass" the data to test.php, just grab data in test.php.
test.php
<?php
// Open DB handle
// Do query, get results.
// Store results in array ($aRes)
// Close DB handle
?>
<html>
.
.
.
<body>
<h2><?php echo $aRes['author'];?></h2>
.
.
</body>
</html>
That is a very basic and obviously fairly pseudo template but hopefully it will give you a better idea of the relationship between server-side data and HTML.
