Passing a parameter to the server

[nmccamy]

I'm new at this and trying to learn, so bear with me. I know how to code a simple form on the client side and have the server side send an e-mail based on the form contents, as shown in the following code:

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<form
   action="test.php"
   method=  "post">
   Name: <input type="text" name="fname" />
   <input type="submit" value = "Send"/>
</form>


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<?php
$to = "nm@mail.com";
$subject = "test.";
$message = $_POST["fname"];
$headers = "From: $from";
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo "Your request has been sent.";?>


What I would like to do is have the server send an e-mail whenever a client visits a particular page. So basically I want to pass the name of the page as a string to the server and have the server e-mail that string. How do I do that?

[johnj]

You can get the name of the file using,$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']

[reyborn]

Getting the server variable script_name will only get the name of the page but not include the passed variables.

You need to get the variable passed and the script name and concantenate it as one string.





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[johnj]

@reyborn - I don't understand why we need to pass the variable? When ever a user visits a page (say page1.html), the server needs to send an email to somebody saying that page1.html has been visited. I think, all we need here is the name of the page that has been visited - correct me if I am wrong.

One way to do this will be - when page1.html is visited, a hidden variable is set to the current page name and the form gets auto submitted to some server.php where $_POST['hiddenvariable'] will give the script name.