I've looked at so many stack overflow questions to find my solution, but none of the questions I try are what I am looking for (so if you know of one that fits my question, please tell me). What I have is a php page that processes a form. It looks like this:
<?php
$var1 = htmlentities($_POST['var1']);
$var2 = htmlentities($_POST['var2']);
$conn = mysqli_connect('localhost','user','pass','db');
$query = "INSERT INTO table (var1,var2) VALUES ('$var2','$var2)";
$doQuery = mysqli_query($conn,$query);
if($doQuery) {
// this is where script should go (i think) to send the variables to the email page
header("Location: /path/to/next/page"); // this just sends the user to the next page. NOT PART OF EMAIL PAGE
}
else {
header("Location: /path/to/back/page");
}
mysqli_close($conn);
?>
so its a basic form handler that sends you to the next page if all goes well.
I have another page that is sends an email notification to someone when they successfully go through the first page. It also processes all of the other email notification worthy forms as well. that's the reason I can't just take the script and put it into the top page.
So, what I am trying to do is figure out a way to send the $var1 and $var2 to the email file without completely redirecting the user. I don't need a response back from the email file.
I hope that made sense.
thanks in advance
Quite simple, really:
// your code above
require 'send-email.php';
And your send-email.php would reference $var1 and $var2.
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I've just designed my first form in HTML and a PHP page to display the results. In the form the user inputs some codes in response to some questions, a bit like a multiple choice, so for example, these are "ABC". The PHP page displays the code to the user as a link, which when clicked will go to a bookmark (a link within the same page) with the ID #ABC. This was achieved with simple manipulation of the PHP variable as follows:
<?php
$code = "ABC"
$part1 = '<a href="mywebpage.php#';
$part2 = '">Go to this code</a>';
$string = $part1.$code.$part2;
echo $string;
?>
(i.e. Link in the page says "go to this code" and when clicked will go to section with bookmark ABC)
This all works fine, but I simply need to know if there is a way of error trapping so that if a bookmark does not exist for the code entered, a message can be displayed to the user instead? Can this be done using the PHP variable, or do I need to use JavaScript? One work around may be to search the web page for the ID "#ABC'. Is it possible to do this? Another option would be to store an array of valid codes on the server then query this before setting the bookmark, but I want to keep it as simple as possible. Any help appreciated, thanks.
What you call a "bookmark" we call a hash. And when you say "go to a bookmark" you mean a hash change. Hash changes do not make an additional request to the server, it is all handled on the client-side, therefore this must be done with JavaScript and not PHP.
So let's just do some simple JavaScript on hash change window.onhashchange that will search for an element with that ID and if it's not found alert something.
window.onhashchange = function(){
if(!document.getElementById(location.hash){
alert("not found");
}
}
Since I asked my question (Previous question) in a way no doubt most users think "dude this is tl;dr" let me put it more simple. I want to use post-redirect-get pattern to avoid user refreshing the site and resubmiting the data etc... I understand that in order to do so I have to redirect the user from html form, through php processing script and back to a new site (or original html form site) that displays the processed data.
Now my question. How do I GET my processed data back from my php? I don't understand the GET part... Currently I don't know how to show php generated data in a nice html display (view) page without include 'site.html';. This example isn't what I am looking for either: Simple Post-Redirect-Get code example. Code in the below example just redirects me to a current page.
It depends on context, but for example:
Given: invoice-form.html, invoice-processing.php and current-invoices.php:
User fills in data on invoice-form
User submits form which has action="invoice-processing.php"
Browser POSTs data to invoice-processing
invoice-processing takes the data from the form and puts it in a database
invoice-processing outputs 302 status and a Location header
Browser goes to current-invoices
current-invoices fetches a list of invoices (including the most recently submitted one) from the database and sends them to the browser as an HTML document
I hope this will help because it has taken me quite a while to get it as well. I tested my understanding like this. I have two php pages, the first page (prg1.php) sends the form to the database, action set to the second one (prg2.php). prg2.php checks the POST data, updates the database and issues a redirect to prg1.php with anything I need to pass back as GET variables. prg2.php looks like this
<?php
if (isset($_POST['gameid'])){
// process the data, update the database
$gameid = htmlspecialchars($_POST['gameid']);
$playerid = htmlspecialchars($_POST['playerid']);
$message = htmlspecialchars($_POST['message']);
//redirect, after updating the database
$getinfo = '?gameid=' . $gameid . '&playerid=' . $playerid;
header("Location: prg1.php" . $getinfo );
exit();
}
?>
You could try something like this:
/****************************************/
/* Fetch my data. */
/****************************************/
$mydata = $_GET["data"];
/****************************************/
/* Has to be sent before anything else! */
/****************************************/
header( 'Location: http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?data='.$mydata );
Sorry if I'm duplicating threads here, but I wasn't able to find an answer to this anywhere else on StackOverflow.
Basically what I'm trying to do is make a list in which variables entered in a form by a user can be kept. At the moment, I have the code which makes this possible, and functional, however the variables entered in the form only appear on the list after the user hits submit... As soon as I refresh the page or go to the page from somewhere else, the variables disappear. Is there any way I can stop this from happening?
Edit: here are the codes:
//Page 1
<?php
session_start();
$entries = array(
0 => $_POST['signup_username'],
1 => $_POST['signup_email'],
2 => $_POST['signup_city']);
$entries_unique = array_unique($entries);
$entries_unique_values = array_values($entries_unique);
echo "<a href='Page 2'>Link</a>";
$_SESSION['entries_unique_values'] = $entries_unique_values;
?>
//Page2
<?php
session_start();
$entries_unique_values = $_SESSION['entries_unique_values'];
foreach($entries_unique_values as $key => $value) {
$ValueReplace = $value;
echo "<br /><a href='http://example.com/members/?s=$ValueReplace'>" . $value . "</a><br/>";
}
?>
Your question is really quite vague. the answer depends on how much data you have to store, and fopr how long you need it to exsist.
By variable I assume you mean data the user has entered and that you want to put into a variable.
I also presume that the list of variables is created by php when the form is submitted.
Php will only create the variable list when the form is submitted as php is done entirely on the server, therefore you will not have or see the variables until the form is submitted.
if you wanted to be able to see the list as it is being created you could use javascript then once you have you php variables the javascript list isn't necesary.
each time you request a php page wheather it is the same one or not the server generates a totally new page, meaning all unhardcoded variables from previous pages will be lost unless you continually post the variables around the pages the server will have no memory of them.
You have a few viable options.
) keep passing the user created variables in POST or GET requests so each page has the necesary info to work with. Depending on the situation it might or might not be a good idea. If the data only needs to exsits for one or two pages then it is ok, but bad if you need the data to be accessable from any page on your web.
2.) start a session and store the variables in a session. Good if the data only needs to be around while the user is connected to the site. but will be lost if user close window or after a time.
3.) place a cookie. not a good idea but ok for simple data.
4.) create a mysql database and drop the variable info in there. great for permanent data. this is how i always complex user data.
just a few ideas for you to look into as it is difficult to see what you really mean. good luck.
use PHP session or store variable values in Cookies via JS or using PHP. It would be nice if you show your working codes :)
Your idea is fine, however you just need to add a little condition to your Page 1 that only set your SESSION values when POST is made, that way it will keep the values even if you refresh. Otherwise when you visit the page without a POST those values will be overwritten by blank values, which is what you are seeing now. You can modify it like
<?php
session_start();
if(isset($_POST["signup_username"]))
{
$entries = array(
0 => $_POST['signup_username'],
1 => $_POST['signup_email'],
2 => $_POST['signup_city']);
$entries_unique = array_unique($entries);
$entries_unique_values = array_values($entries_unique);
$_SESSION['entries_unique_values'] = $entries_unique_values;
}
echo "<a href='http://localhost/Calculator/form2.1.php'>Link</a>";
?>
You could use JavaScript and HTML5 local storage.
I need to create some if else statements depending on what page user is, I tried looking for this in php manual, but didn't find anything useful.
Basically what I want is a syntax for something like:
if (user is on a page index.php)
$message = $_GET["title"];
if $message = "hello";
$say = "Hello";
etc ....
Can anyone show how this can be done?
Try looking at _SERVER[REQUEST_URI], _SERVER[SCRIPT_NAME], _SERVER[SCRIPT_FILENAME], _SERVER[PHP_SELF], and possibly others.
you can use a session variable to track the user: every page is opened set a session variable to it's name so you can know what is the last opened page
x = str_replace('.php', '', (end(explode('/',HttpRequest::getUrl))));
I want people to request invites to use my app, they fill in their email address, but how can generate an url for them to go to register? Presumably only to be used once! I was thinking some sort of md6 code using php!
P.S. If there is a tutorial for this, please give a the link. Thanks.
In the email you use a random code, for example (a part of) the session-id of the user
<?php
$code = session_id();
You save this code somewhere in your database and when the user hits your register page (for example, http://mydomain.tld/register?code=here-register-code), you do something like this:
<?php
$code = $_GET['code'];
if (my_code_is_valid($code) {
echo 'Hey, you are able to register now!';
} else {
echo 'Sorry friend, you need an invite first!';
}
You need to define your my_code_is_valid() function, but that's depending on your own code (framework, database system etc).