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I've just finnished learning PHP and I feel sattisfied now that i know the basics but i still have a "how do they do that!?!?!" question thats realy bugging me:
when you have a login, or any other form, how do people do it so that the bit of php your info is being sent to isnt the page you end up seeing? and is that actualy php or is it javascript?

im also interest4ed to see if anyone else has any questions an solutions

I've got a q..

What's the scam? Cut me in and I won't talk.

??? im not scamming.............. all i mean is when a form posts to login.php how do you end up at index.html???

usually parsing the $_POST variable and then forwarding to the correct page using any number of methods (like include_once()) or $_SESSION

I'm horrible at explaining so you'd have to have someone else explain, or you can read the manual that's at the php.net website on how to use all those things.

i suppose u mean when the client push the submit button the browser send the _POST data to login.php how the client gets to logged.html(for example).
try using php method header("Location: /path/logged.html");

sorry if i didn't understood ur question correct.

you can either read the refer http_var or just add a hidden form value when you send the login to the login.php. You should consider looking into open source projects like phpbb, joomla or whatever. They can be very inspirating ^-^.