Dynamic Form Input using PHP - How?

[m8fyu]

I have a simple contact form (name, email, subject, message, submit) that I have for users to make enquiries.

Is there an easy way to populate the subject input field depending on the URL that the user has arrived at the form from? The title of each page is pretty descriptive so even if I passed this data to the form it would alleviate the user from having to type out a subject line.

Any advice is greatly appreciated as I'm pretty new to PHP and am finding it hard to find examples of how this can be achieved.

:)

[omoutop]

One idea is to use $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'].
This shows you from what url your user came.

So if i am in contact.htm and before that i was in sitemap.htm, $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] will show: http://www.example.com/sitemap.htm.

Now, combine this with parse_url() or pathinfo() to get a cleaner url of he previous page.

But i am sure there are other ways as well

[milocold]

Howdy,

basename('http://www.example.com/sitemap.htm');

Will give you just the page name, then you can use a switch statement to set your subject.

Hope that helps,

M. Cold

[m8fyu]

Thanks guys. I'm not very familiar with either of these processes so I'll do a little extra research and let you know how I get on. Thanks again.