passing variable data along

[fizzik]

Hiya,

having a little bit of a problem trying to get this code to work.

What i have is:

- admin clicks "award points" for a post. when link to award points is clicked the postid and userid are taken along too eg:

the following is for the link in the postbit_legacy template

<a href="award.php?postid={vb:raw post.postid}&userid={vb:raw post.userid}">award</a>


the following is a bit from my award.php

if ($_REQUEST['do'] == '')
{
$_REQUEST['do'] = 'main';
}

if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'main')
{


$giveuserid = $_REQUEST['userid'];
$givepostid = $_REQUEST['postid'];


- taken to a template where the admin selects number of points to be awarded for the post. Here lies the problem, the template is rendered fine but here is my form action code:

the following is fom my points_add template

<form action="award.php?do=add&postid=$givepostid&userid=$giveuserid" method="post">


i was hoping that passing the userid and postid to the $giveuserid and $givepostid would work, but it doesnt seem to. I need these to informations to use in my sql query to add points to the user in the db. but when i submit the form it leaves postid=&userid= (both blank, which makes the query fail obviously)

any help would be much appreciated.