how to pass data from one html page to second in php?

Question

I have created a page for updation of record. I want to pass the id of student from one page to another. I am trying to send it through window.location but it is not working. In

Answer 1

you can try using cookies

Set the cookie
    <?php
    setcookie("name","value",time()+$int);
    /*name is your cookie's name
    value is cookie's value
    $int is time of cookie expires*/
    ?> 
Get the coockie

    <?php
    echo $_COOKIE["your cookie name"];
    ?>

Answer 2

Populate a <form method="post" [...]> in the first page with the information needed; you can change their aspect with CSS as desired.

When the <form> is send you only need a PHP script/page that uses $_POST to fill the new page.

Easier than AJAX if you try to navigate from the first page to the second.

Answer 3

If you already have a form and wanna post that to an update script, you could just add the student id as an hidden form element example:

<input type="hidden" name="student_id" value="<?php echo $student_id; ?>">

Else if you want to redirect from another page to the update page, with a student id, the best way will probably be a $_GET variable. So the URL would look something like this: http://domain.com/update.php?student_id=1

And then your update.php will include a simple check like this.

if(!empty($_GET['student_id'])) {
    $student_id = $_GET['student_id'];
    // Ready to update
} else {
    // Throw 404 error, or redirect to an create page
}

Answer 4

When you use window.location then your page go to another page. ajax work on active page. You can not use.

Answer 5

If both pages are at same domain you can use localStorage, storage event to pass data between html documents

At second page

window.addEventListener("storage", function(e) {
  // do stuff at `storage` event
  var id = localStorage.getItem("id");
});

at first page

// do stuff, set `localStorage.id`
localStorage.setItem("id", "abc");

Answer 6

Generally you can use sessions for this $_SESSION variable to store it into the session, or you can pass that value via get parameter. And afterwards get that parameter with $_GET

Or $_POST parameter if you want to submit form.