[snip] I had this thread going yesterday. Then basically think it reached a stalemate. I'm wondering has anyone setup forms using session variables and validation. Validation where the validating is done on the same page, and the redirected on success ? [/snip]
You need a class which will generate and validate your forms dynamically. Pear provides two packages (the second an extension of the first): http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_QuickForm http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_QuickForm_Controller I've never used these as I wrote my own library to handle this a few years ago, but from what I understand these two packages will do the trick. Basically it will work thusly: 1) On a page where you need a form, you declare a new form object, specify all your inputs, how they should be validated, etc., and these are then stored in the session. 2) On the receiving page you call the form validation object, passing in an identifier for which form should be validated. 3) If it validates your script will continue unfettered, else it will update the values in the session with the appropriate error message and redirect you back to the original form, which, since you are using session variables to display the inputs, will now be updated with the error messages. HTH, Pablo -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
