How to pass a variable value between 2 php files?

Question

I'm developing a PHP site. There I'm loading an image to my home page like this.

img src="?php  echo"css/images/".$Vid_arr[count($Vid_arr)-5]."/front.jpg" ?" alt="Product Image 9"

Now I need to pass only this part $Vid_arr[count($Vid_arr)-5] to my details.php file. How can I do this?

Exactly how is details.php called? You don't show how it's called at all, so your question is unanswerable. Is it being loaded via a url? a local `include()` call? What...? — Marc B, Jun 04 '12 at 03:22
(a href="details.php" class="product" title="Product 9") just before the img src ... — Thilina H, Jun 04 '12 at 03:26
And this img tag is within the ``? a bare A tag is of no use whatsoever for figuring out what you want. — Marc B, Jun 04 '12 at 03:27
yes yes, the pages are connected fine. But it seems like I can't post <> tags here. That's why I replaced them with brackets () . And thanks for trying to help me . — Thilina H, Jun 04 '12 at 03:30
Using backticks ( ` ) to surround small snippets of code in a comment. For full question text, indent the code with 4 spaces, or highlight the code and hit the `{}` button in the editor. — Marc B, Jun 04 '12 at 03:30

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 04 '12 at 03:29

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They are several ways to do it, first you can use a GET method, or simply use sessions: session_start(); $_SESSION['foo'] = $Vid_arr[count($Vid_arr)-5];

answered Jun 04 '12 at 03:29

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 04 '12 at 03:39

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if it's one variable, and this variable was available in one of the pervious pages. you can use $_SESSION. However, if it's not available from one of the previous pages. use include_once('details.php');

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answered Jun 04 '12 at 03:32

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 04 '12 at 03:29

You can use include_once('path_to_details.php'); just after the <img> line you have there and in the details.php script just use$Vid_arr[count($Vid_arr)-5] normally.

include_once will call the script you want. This way you can have many pieces of code separated in many files and you can merge them all into one by using the include and include_once functions.

How to pass a variable value between 2 php files?

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