help understanding hidden input w/ php

Posted on 16th Feb 2014 07:03 pm by admin

hello i'm doing a tutorial where there are multiple forms for an edit page for a user to update their info... there's a section of the code i dont really understand how it works...here's code:
php:

if ($_POST['parse_var'] == "edit"){

(more php code that executes..)

}

html:

<form action="edit.php" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" name="edit" id="edit">
<input name="edit" type="text" class="formFields" id="edit" value="" size="36" maxlength="32" />
<input type="hidden" name="parse_var" value="edit" />
<input type="submit" name="button1" id="button1" value="Submit" />
</form>

i dont understand how the "parse_var" and "edit" correlate? the parse_var is the same on every other form and the "edit" would be something different on another form, what "edit" is it specifically talking about and how are they working with each other here?

Your Answer:

Login to answer

Other forums

Show message after entering data
Hello Colleagues

I would like to display messages after entering the data example: "
dat

Read from forum
Haven't written anything forever and I would like to get back.
What I'm trying to do is getting t

Call db table from any PHP file
Hi,

I want to be able to call a database table that will be setup in another file called init

Lining up columns nicely.
Hello everyone, I'm having problems with making columns line up properly. Here is my code:

imap: how to save a copy of sent emails to sent elements
Hello my friends,

I am writing an online emailing application with inbox outbox/sent elements