Re: [PHP] resubmitting $POST data to another script
Leif Gregory wrote: Hello Charlie, Tuesday, March 2, 2004, 1:54:43 PM, you wrote: CFI I'm creating a form with 170 fields, and I'd like to create an CFI intermediary page so the user can review their info before CFI submitting it again to the emailing script. Just a thought. I'm guessing you are dumping this stuff to a database for the final result. Why don't you create an intermediate table to hold those fields (keeping track of the record ID in a hidden input field), then re-read that data back on the validation page, then when they submit it there, the changes are added to the real table. My only thinking on this is to keep it simple rather than carrying over a ton of hidden fields. It may not be the most efficient method, but it'd work. I'm not dumping to a database, unfortunately, I'm just emailing the results. Thanks, anyway, though. I think the hidden fields idea is the best one; I finally found a solution that uses each() and list() to travel the $_POST array, and I think it will work nicely. Thanks to all for your responses! -- Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] resubmitting $POST data to another script
Chris Shiflett wrote:
You might strongly consider using foreach() instead for reasons of
performance (1000% or more faster):
http://www.blueshoes.org/en/developer/php_bench/
You could simply:
foreach ($_POST as $name = $value)
{
...
}
Hope that helps.
Sure does, thanks!
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[PHP] resubmitting $POST data to another script
I'm creating a form with 170 fields, and I'd like to create an intermediary page so the user can review their info before submitting it again to the emailing script. Since the form has so much data, I was hoping I could just take the entire $POST array and pass it to the emailing script like an HTML form POST method (so that form A sends its data via POST to PHP script B, which displays it for review; upon successful review, the user clicks Submit again to pass the $POST data on to Perl script C, which is prewritten). Is this possible? I looked in the PHP Manual but couldn't find anything; I'm having a difficult time finding stuff in there, since I have to know what category a function falls under before I can look it up. Thanks. -- Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] resubmitting $POST data to another script
Jay Blanchard wrote: When you create the view page store all of the passed variables in hidden form fields. That way they can then be submitted on to the next script. I could do it that way, but I was hoping for a way of just passing all the data at once; Since there's 170 fields, that's a lot of data to manually handle. -- Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] saving form data - calling another script from PHP?
Gary Sanders wrote: Charlie, Can you make the submit target be the PHP script and have the PHP script call the Perl script to send the email? Sure, that would definitely work; I just don't know how to call the Perl script and pass the data (and uploaded/attached files) to it. -- Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] saving form data
I'm using a prebuilt Perl form mailer script for a project, but because the form is so long, my client would like to give the user the ability to save the data and come back to finish it later. I was hoping to be able to code this part in PHP (because I don't know Perl), but I'm fairly new to PHP and don't know how to get one form to go to two different places. Because the target of the form is the Perl script (for emailing the submitted form), how can I grab the data from the form with PHP? -- Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] saving form data
Sam Masiello wrote: If the PHP configuration doesn't have register_globals turned on in the php.ini file, you will be able to access the form variables via the _POST array like this: $_POST[my_form_var] Of course, substitute my_form_var with the correct variable from the form that you are submitting. If the server does have register_globals turned on you can access the variables just as they are named in the form. For example, if you have a text input field named lastname, you can access the value in that text box using the variable $lastname. Thanks, but how do I get the info submitted to the PHP script to access the data in the first place? Since the target of the form is the Perl script, the submit button submits the form to the Perl script; can I add a second button of some type to submit the form to a different location (the PHP script)? Or can I use the DOM (ie document.formname.fieldname.value) to grab the data straight from the fields and then pass it on somehow? -- Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] saving form data
Richard Davey wrote: You can't make one form submit to two different scripts sadly, but to be honest if you're going to write a PHP script to capture this information - why not make it do what the Perl formmail script does too? (i.e. send the email) and remove the Perl script from the equation? It's just a matter of development time; if there's a way to use the Perl mail script with a PHP data saving script, it would save time. If I do have to rewrite the whole thing in PHP, how would I accept uploaded file attachments and attach them to the emailed form results? -- Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] saving form data
Richard Davey wrote: CFI It's just a matter of development time; if there's a way to CFI use the Perl mail script with a PHP data saving script, it CFI would save time. If I do have to rewrite the whole thing in CFI PHP, how would I accept uploaded file attachments and attach CFI them to the emailed form results? Then how about in reverse? Add something to the end of the Perl script that passes the values to a PHP script? It could even do it via the query string, maybe also passing an md5 encoded password that only your two scripts know (in order to stop someone spoofing your script). I don't think that would work because they will need to save without sending the form. But I had thought about the reverse: a PHP script that saves the data and then possibly passes it on to the Perl script. Do you or anyone else know how to pass on form results in PHP to another script? (Like I said, I'm pretty new to PHP...) Thanks! -- Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] creating a very simple cms with one login and one mySQL database
I'm new to php and am trying to create a very basic content management system to let my client update a popup on their homepage. I'm using mySQL and have a good idea of how to do the login and set read cookies, as well as accessing the database during the admin process. The part I'm not too clear on is how to implement the front end for the general users. When someone visits the site and the popup pops up, what happens on that page? Does it access the database at the time it loads to load the information? If so, is this possible without hardcoding the username/password information (to access the database) in the popup page code? Is there a tutorial or article on stuff like this somewhere? -- Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
