Variable not passed twixt pages..

Greetings learned PHP(eople),

Scenario : User fills in text box, pushes Submit and textbox data gets
passed to MySQL database..

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The code from the HTML page :

<form action="savemail.php" method="GET" target="main">
<input type="text" class="mailinput" name="mailaddress" value="Your
Email Address">
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The code from savemail.php :

<?php
$result = @mysql_pconnect('localhost', 'user', 'pass');
$query = "insert into email values ('" . $_REQUEST['mailaddress']
.. "')";
//Error stuff-------------------------------------------------
$ResSaveMail = mysql_query($query);
if (!$ResSaveMail)
{
echo("<P>Error performing query: " . mysql_error() . "</P>");
echo("Your email has not been saved to the Delta Database.");
exit();
}
//------------------------------------------------------------
?>
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THe problem :
The variable 'mailaddress' is not getting passed to savemail.php

echo $_REQUEST['mailaddress'] reveals blank....

On another programmers advice I tried using POST in my form, but that
don`t work either..

The database is getting populated with blank values...is my problem in
the php code somewhere..I been playing with this for a while now and no
joy has yet surfaced..

Any ideas greatly appreciated...

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Chris Blake
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> <form action="savemail.php" method="GET" target="main">
....
....
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> $query = "insert into email values ('" . $_REQUEST['mailaddress']


Use $_GET or $_POST, according to the method used...

$_GET['mailaddress']

$_REQUEST works fine, and is better than $_GET and $_POST because then your
page can work regardless of which method you used when calling it. This is
handy if you want to call a page recursively (submit a page to itself).

You need to make sure that your session is started on both your origin page
and your target page... otherwise session variables such as $_GET, $_POST,
an $_REQUEST will never be available on subsequent pages.

I use this on my master template page...
// SESSION
session_name();
session_start();
ini_set("session.cookie_lifetime","120");

My (simplified) template page structure:
// SESSION
session_name();
session_start();
// INCLUDES
require_once("cnxn.php");
require_once("header.php");
// MAIN
...


It seems to me that this behaves a little differently than ASP which I only
needed to start the session once - not on every page that I navigate to.
Can someone shed some light on that?