Auto-Fill Form Fields w/ Product Data

I need to build a quote request form for a client which will be linked to from several thousand product pages. The customer will click on a link from a static html product page to open the quote request form. Is there a way to carryover data from the product page to pre-populate some of the fields in the quote request form, product name, product number for example.

pass the product ID as a url variable to the quote page, use a recordset to lookup the product in the database based on the passed URL variable and use the recordset for the form elements initial values.

As an intermediate user for this, is there a quick guide online for me to see the step by step guide in doing this?

what this boils down to is a Master Detail page set.

see this Dreamweaver tutorial for details:
WScbb6b82af5544594822510a94ae8d65-78b8a.html

The site is a static site so there is no database.

Originally Said By: Jason Byrnes

  pass the product ID as a url variable to the quote page, use a recordset to lookup the product in the database based on the passed URL variable and use the recordset for the form elements initial values.  

then the links would need to pass the product info as query string variables

<a href="quote.php?prodName=Widget A&prodDescription=A Really helpful widget">quote</a>



the use the URL variables as the initial value for the forms:

<input type="text" name="prodName" id="prodName" value="<?php echo(isset($_GET['prodName'])?$_GET['prodName']:""): ?>

Jason, this code is not working for me- it returns a syntax error and the page will not load. Can you be a bit more specific?

Originally Said By: Jason Byrnes

  then the links would need to pass the product info as query string variables

<a href="quote.php?prodName=Widget A&prodDescription=A Really helpful widget">quote</a>



the use the URL variables as the initial value for the forms:

<input type="text" name="prodName" id="prodName" value="<?php echo(isset($_GET['prodName'])?$_GET['prodName']:""): ?>  

Sorry, the code for the form element should be:

<input type="text" name="prodName" id="prodName" value="<?php echo(isset($_GET['prodName'])?$_GET['prodName']:""); ?>" />