Posting form data to URL and taking user to the URL (PHP and HTML)

Question

I have a simple form like:

<form action="" method="post">
    <input type="text" name="user" id="user" class="txt" value="Account" />
    <input type="password" name="pw" id="pw" class="txt" value="Password" />
  <div class="alignleft">
    <a href="#">Forgot?</a>
  </div>
  <div class="alignright">
    <input type="submit" name="login" class="login" value="Login" />
  </div>

This form will log people into their control panel (we hold no sensitive data and we know there are better ways to login) but anyway they are not in a database, they login by simply following a URL like this:

www.example.com/user?user=USERNAME?pwrd=PASSWORD

So is the user follows that URL replacing the user and password with their own it will log them in.

How can I make my HTML form post the data to a URL and take them to the URL when they click submit?

Thanks!

You can't have 2 ? in a url query.

Shikiryu
– Shikiryu

2012-07-02 12:20:08 +00:00
Commented Jul 2, 2012 at 12:20 — Shikiryu
– Shikiryu, Commented Jul 2, 2012 at 12:20

Lusitanian · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-02 12:16:27Z

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<form action="yoururl.com/url" method="get"> That uses a query string for the form submission.

answered Jul 2, 2012 at 12:16

Lusitanian

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5 Comments

RuFFCuT Over a year ago

Thanks! so how would I append both the username and password, mid URL not just at the end?

Lusitanian Over a year ago

What do you mean? In your example, they're at the end.

RuFFCuT Over a year ago

ah yes sorry they are at the end but there is stuff between them the actual URL looks like this: example.com/logincheck.asp?acct=USER&pwd=PASS

RuFFCuT Over a year ago

so how can I get the &pwd= between the username and password?

Lusitanian Over a year ago

I still really have no idea what you mean. You can add additional inputs of type hidden if you want constant variables in the query string, though.

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