How to get the currently submitted value in a GET form

Question

I have a very simple GET form with one text field:

<form action="blah" method="get" name="blah" onsubmit="blah">
  <input type="text" name="page" value="blah" />
</form>

What I want is to get the current submitted value from the url:

$page_value = $_REQUEST["page"];

but this will only get the previous submitted value, not the current one.

Notice that there's a difference between `current submitted value` to `current value`. — Ofir Baruch, Mar 07 '12 at 19:37
Yes, the current value is actually the previously submitted one. But I need the currently submitted one. I guess I will have to do it with javascript. — Yannis, Mar 07 '12 at 19:40
I'm a bit confused as to what you mean by the `previous submitted value` - do you mean the one you see on the URL when you submit the form? — enygma, Mar 07 '12 at 19:46

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 07 '12 at 19:40

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<form action="blah" name="blah" onsubmit="blah">
  <input type="text" name="page" value="<?=htmlspecialchars($_GET['page'])?>" />
</form>

answered Mar 07 '12 at 19:40

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