submit to another form

Placebo

I have form products.php

it has search functions,
an input field


product.php has a sidebar, sidebar.php which has a search box.
How do i search whats entered in the search box in products.php

i.e i tried calling products.php in the searchbox form with same input field name,
doesnt work ....

thanks

Webmonkey

I'm confused. Are these done using frames or something?

Placebo

no sorry.

products.php has a sidebar, using <php include....


sidebar.php has a form in it, searching this should submit the form in products.php

so in the sidebar form i have
<form method="POST" action="products.php">


but it doesnt seem to work,i have it working in a dummy file i made x.php
product.php has extra variables etc but im passing them on as hidden fields in the sidebar form

Webmonkey

I'm all confused

I mean, if you include a file in PHP, it all renders to the same HTML page so you get a form. If you submit this form to itself (the main script), you just grab the variable using $_POST;

Apologies if I'm reading into this all wrong, long day!

Placebo

ugh i got it

product.php only executed search on submit on the page,
so i just forward on a variable and checked for that

my bad
late nights....