How to insert form information into html button with php

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Here's what I'm looking to accomplish. When a user creates a profile they fill out some information with a form. After they submit the form the information is displayed on their profile. One of the form fields is going to be a button that other users can click to do an action. To display the button this is the PHP I currently have:

add_action('kleo_bp_after_profile_name', 'my_profile_button');
function my_profile_button()
{
echo '<a href="#" class="success button radius show-for-small" rel="nofollow">Talk</a>';
}

I need to input the form information into the href="#" spot. Does anyone know a way around this?

Thanks.

if i understand you correctly then you will need to use javascript for that — Ibu
– Ibu, Commented Oct 9, 2013 at 19:16
Hard to understand what you have and what you're trying to do. How do you put information into a button? What are you actually trying to accomplish? Submit the information to a server? — Hamza Kubba
– Hamza Kubba, Commented Oct 9, 2013 at 19:16

Steve · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-09 19:29:08Z

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It sounds like you want to simply submit a form that a user fills out. If that is the case, you can't use a link, but you need to use a button:

<form action="submitpage.php" method="post">
    Name: <input type="text" />
    <input type="submit" value="Some Text" />
</form>

or

<form action="submitpage.php" method="post">
    Name: <input type="text" />
    <button type="submit" class="success button radius show-for-small">Some Text</button>
</form>

answered Oct 9, 2013 at 19:29

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Lolito · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-09 19:24:45Z

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Sure, if you have captured that information with a POST variable, named 'redirect' for example, you could use it to generate a button. The problem is that I don't understand very well what you mean with be put into href="#" spot, because buttons don't have that property, so I write you the code to use it on a redirection which is done at clicking the button:

<input type="button" value="submit" onclick="location.href='<?php echo $_POST["redirect"];?>';">

If you want to use information in a link, which actually have href property use this:

<a id="link" href="<?php echo $_POST['redirect'];?>">Text of the link</a>

answered Oct 9, 2013 at 19:24

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