[PHP] Passing values back to form
Im new to PHP coming from a background in perl devlopement. I have a form that a user can fill out. On submit the values are iterated over a foreach to check for empty(). If the an emtyp $key is found then it passes an error string to my error function. I have 2 php files, one that is the Form called profile.php and one that processes the values from the form, called profileprocess.php. There are multiple functions in profileprocess.php. When the header function is called in the profileprocess.php it takes you back to the profile.php with empty values in the fields. I was wandering if their is a way, (which Im sure their is) to pass back all the data that was correctly entered back to the form, and then a nice little message that displays the error of the data that needs to be checked by the user. I could do this a number of ways, but the key is not writing code that you dont have to. Its just smarter programming. Any ideas, or functions I could read on in the rtFM manual is greatly appreciated. I appreciate you looking at this problem... Thanks in advance, Daniel
Re: [PHP] Passing values back to form
Hi Daniel, My advice is to use php sessions. You can register both the filled and empty values in the session after processing them. Then you can header() redirect normally with no fuss and extract the values from the session file on the form page. And here's a tip. Set up some CSS in a switch() statement to highlight the form fields that are left blank. This makes for a nice user interface, esspecially on larger forms. Read up on sessions.. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php HTH, Kevin Stone - Original Message - From: Daniel J. Rychlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 10:31 AM Subject: [PHP] Passing values back to form Im new to PHP coming from a background in perl devlopement. I have a form that a user can fill out. On submit the values are iterated over a foreach to check for empty(). If the an emtyp $key is found then it passes an error string to my error function. I have 2 php files, one that is the Form called profile.php and one that processes the values from the form, called profileprocess.php. There are multiple functions in profileprocess.php. When the header function is called in the profileprocess.php it takes you back to the profile.php with empty values in the fields. I was wandering if their is a way, (which Im sure their is) to pass back all the data that was correctly entered back to the form, and then a nice little message that displays the error of the data that needs to be checked by the user. I could do this a number of ways, but the key is not writing code that you dont have to. Its just smarter programming. Any ideas, or functions I could read on in the rtFM manual is greatly appreciated. I appreciate you looking at this problem... Thanks in advance, Daniel -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Passing values back to form
Thanks so much for your time. These are great tips, thanks again. - Original Message - From: Kevin Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Daniel J. Rychlik [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 12:37 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Passing values back to form Hi Daniel, My advice is to use php sessions. You can register both the filled and empty values in the session after processing them. Then you can header() redirect normally with no fuss and extract the values from the session file on the form page. And here's a tip. Set up some CSS in a switch() statement to highlight the form fields that are left blank. This makes for a nice user interface, esspecially on larger forms. Read up on sessions.. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php HTH, Kevin Stone - Original Message - From: Daniel J. Rychlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 10:31 AM Subject: [PHP] Passing values back to form Im new to PHP coming from a background in perl devlopement. I have a form that a user can fill out. On submit the values are iterated over a foreach to check for empty(). If the an emtyp $key is found then it passes an error string to my error function. I have 2 php files, one that is the Form called profile.php and one that processes the values from the form, called profileprocess.php. There are multiple functions in profileprocess.php. When the header function is called in the profileprocess.php it takes you back to the profile.php with empty values in the fields. I was wandering if their is a way, (which Im sure their is) to pass back all the data that was correctly entered back to the form, and then a nice little message that displays the error of the data that needs to be checked by the user. I could do this a number of ways, but the key is not writing code that you dont have to. Its just smarter programming. Any ideas, or functions I could read on in the rtFM manual is greatly appreciated. I appreciate you looking at this problem... Thanks in advance, Daniel -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
