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I have a form which submits to a php script. In this form I need to collect all the $_POST data and then post this on to another form (the reason for this isn't really relevant but there is a good reason).
My question is once I've collected all the data from the initial form submit, sanitised it and assigned it all to variables how do i then package it all up to send to the next form? The second form is expecting a $_POST with hidden fields with particular name attributes....so how do i do this? do I build the actual html and submit that somehow to the second form or do I buld some sort of array and send that?
hope this makes sense. Kind of hard to put in to words.
You can generate form and submit onLoad by Javascript
You can use curl to send POST query (from your server but not from client)
The better way woudl be to store the sanitized variables in the session.
Collect all the information you need from all the forms you need.
Then after you have all the data needed, then finally update the DB (or Somethign else)
if I understood you well when you open the form you tell it wich acction will it perform
.when you click submit it will take you to the other form.in the other form you can access the values of the input fields from the previous form with $_POST['name_of_the_input_field'].i hope this will help you :D
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Hello I'm trying to get back into coding and I've hit a problem that I need some help with. I've created a form with HTML5 so it has the built in required fields and i can get this to post to a database but I currently have the POST on a different page so that I can just have words saying Submit complete but currently you can just go to that submit page over and over and it will just send off blank fields to my database so I wanted to check the post as a whole to see if the whole thing is empty then not submit but I don't know if this is the best way to do it.
thanks if you need my current PHP just shout and ill put it on.
First of all validate your form fields with Javascript or Jquery validation for client side validation. Its very easy, you can use jquery validation plugin eg.
Jquery Form Validation
For Server side validation you can use php functions like isset($_POST['field_name']) and !empty($_POST['field_name'])
For PHP form validation please visit the link for reference : PHP Form Validation
I recently posted a question about php forms with a checkbox that simply echoed the result and it was answered.
However i now have the question how can i automatically submit the form so rather than waiting for the submit button to be clicked once it would automatically echo the result.
I would like a way to run the form once because i wanted to make far more complex forms and would like to display the initial result right away.
The other thread:
PHP - Form Elements Resetting
Many thanks
I am new to html, I would be really glad if you can help me with this.
I have a web page where there is a list and some other text inputs and buttons. This option list can be populated by clicking the "add" button in the page, this add button is to direct to another page and in that page there are some chekboxes, those which are checked are loaded back to the main page,(where I have the list) .
At the end data in the main page needs to be loaded to the database, (what is in the list and in the text inputs).
Since I'm new I just know little about php and html, I thought I should have a form within a another form(form to "add items", form to load to the database) and it is not possible in html. Can anyone suggest the best way to do this? Do I need to use javascript?
Why can't the extra inputs (the ones that would be in the second form) be part of the first form? I think the question will become clearer if you post a sample form so we can see the relationship between the two forms.
But overall, since you're ultimately only submitting one form, then maybe all the inputs belong together. If what you're calling the second form isn't supposed to be visible right away, you can still have it be part of the same form, but only reveal it when needed.
Again, some sample data would help to understand the exact context of your question.
in php if you use input name="somename[]"
for a number of input elems
you will get an array in $_POST['somename'] and access all the values.
I think what you're after - if I understand you correctly - is ajax. Ajax allows you to asynchronously send data to/from another script without leaving the current page. This is accomplished using JavaScript. In your case I think what you need to do is set an onclick event in JavaScript to a button:
<input type="button" onclick="javascriptFunction()">
You can read more about ajax here:
http://www.tizag.com/ajaxTutorial/ajaxform.php
I have a php page that generates a form. The action attribute of the form is the page itself. After the user submits the form, the same page is loaded, but this time a POST variable is set, so the page runs another script to deal with the incoming data from the form. I do this by using a conditional fork:
if(isset($_POST['var'])){
generate form
}else{
insert $_POST data into database
}
I'd like to know if this is ok or a bad idea.
I agree with Ignacio. Other than that it looks like a fairly standard approach if you don't need more complexity. One very important thing: make sure you are validating and sanitizing that data before it goes into the database.
The bad part is setting the action attribute to the script. Omitting it completely indicates to the browser that it should be posted to the same URL.
You might even want to go to the extent of checking whether the data was submitted thru AJAX to differentiate it from a regular form submission:
if ( $_SERVER['X_REQUESTED_WITH']=='XMLHttpRequest' )
// AJAX
I want to do a search with pagination, but I don't know how to 'store' the data in the $_POST array, should I do it with sessions?
Rolensen
If you are doing a search, you are trying to GET data from the server, and not send data to it -- which means you probably should use GET, and not POST.
Also, it would allow your users to bookmark the result pages (or send those links by e-mail, IM, ...), which is always nice ; and, also, use the back/forward buttons of the browser without getting an alert box, which is nice too ^^
(Oh, and, BTW, it would help solve your problem ;-) )
Yes, you can use sessions or hidden fields and even better GET method in your form.
It is possible to use both GET and POST in form, just add appropriate attribute method to form tag:
<form action="index.php?page=5" method="POST">
So the pager links are submit buttons while rest of the data is stored in hidden fields. But that's not a good way to do this because you cannot pass someone link (on IM for example) to your search results.
But the best way is to store somewhere POST input data (look here: http://www.symfony-project.org/plugins/, when you input your query once, it is stored and remembered so you dont need to fill form multiple times)