Problem retaining value with GET statement

I have a webpage with a php script. At the beginning of the script, I set the value of the message variable with the following.

$message = $_GET['msg3'];

msg3 is coming from the url. That is working fine because I am printing $message correctly on the webpage.

The webpage has a form and the rest of the php script is run when the form is submitted. The problem is that when the form is run, $message is now empty.

How do I get it to retain the value.

Thanks for the help.

 

here is two ways to do that,
1 - either store the $message variable in a session:

Session_start();
$_session[‘message’] = $message;

PHP:

Then when the form is submitted you can use:

$message = $_session[‘message’];

PHP:

2- The second way would be to store the $message in a hidden field of the form and retrieve it when the form is submitted.

<form action="" method="get">
other form input here
<input name="message" type="hidden" value="<?php echo $message; ?>" />
</form>

PHP:

good luck

 

Thanks zeronese. I used the form method and it worked great.

 

great... glad it worked.