Populate <textarea> on non-vB page from link in postbit?

[safiel]

In a posted thread, in every postbit, we want to have a link "forward this message as a postcard" - they click on the link, it takes them postcard.php, and should autopopulate the <textarea> for the postcard message with the message only in that single post.

Using vB functions, can someone tell me the easiest way to pass the post's text to another page?

[Tekton]

send the postid of the message(post) that you want copied and then run a little query getting the pagetext from the db matching the postid?

'course, make sure they have permission to view the message too...

[safiel]

Do you think that would be best, or could you even just transfer the pagetext avoiding a query? If I can skip a query that would be great.

The main hinerance is that and I don't know what the query would look like. Probably just a mysql_query from the post table, the pagetext, where postid = postid, right?

[deathemperor]

it's impossible to do so, unless you use copy and paste. Becausing reloading a page would also need to reload the data, and that page contains non-static data so everytime you open it you get to run queries. I believe it's a very simple query and wouldn't take alot of time so don't be worried about it.