Hello I've been trying to connect two PHP scripts that have their separate logins. I want to create a PHP script that will use POST to send the username/password to another PHP script. I tried a lot of scripts but I can't seem to make it work. I have no idea how to find out what is wrong, has anybody any experience in this field?

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What have you tried so far?
To move from page to page on a site and maintain data about the user's log-in status (ie: id and password) and various other info, look at using cookies or sessions.

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Ok, on the origonal page you need to use php to dynamicly write the username and password into a hidden form. It'll look something like this:

<form action="nameOfSecondPage.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="username" value="<?php $username ?>">
<input type="hidden" name="password" value="<?php $password ?>">
<input type="submit" value="Goto next page">
</form>

Then on the second page you just get the variables that you sent, like so:

<?php
$username=$_POST['username'];
$password=$_POST['password'];
?>

Hope that helped, feel free to ask if you have any other questions

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people often just forget to declare back there variables that are transfered from on page to the other. Make sure that all form varialbles are declared....

eg $name=$_POST['formvariable'];

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In the above script, the user has to click the button "Goto next page"

but what if he follows any link?

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Assuming I understand your problem correctly, you can either specify the script in the 'action' value of the form (eg. '<form action="/target_script.php" method="post">), or include() the script from the page that you have the form submit data to. The $_POST variable is an 'autoglobal', meaning that any section of any script has access to it. So if, for example, you use include('other_script.php'); from within target_script.php, then other_script.php will have full access to the $_POST variable. If that makes sense...

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I think my question was not clear enough.

You are talking about the usual POST usage.. user clicks a button and the form data is sent.

I was thinking more like automatic posting from PHP (see example )

I tried everything, but the above link now works for me.. I'm really happy about that.

Thanks anyway

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