You might consider another approach, if you are using php5. It's called PRADO, I believe it was overall winner of the PHP programming contest sponsored by ZEND. http://www.zend.com/php5/contest/contest.php?id=36&single=1 This is how the product is described; -------------------------------- snip--------------- PRADO is an event-driven and component-based framework for Web application development in PHP5. Developing a Web application with PRADO mainly involves instantiating prebuilt and application-specific component types, configuring them by setting their properties, and composing them into application tasks. Some repetitive and tedious work, such as form field validation and page state management, can be accomplished easily in this fashion with the provided PRADO components. Using PRADO to develop Web application will bring you familarity of developing desktop GUI application with RAD tools such as Borland Delphi, Visual Basic, etc. You will also find it is like ASP.NET in many aspects. --------------------------------- snip--------------- I haven't tried this myself, but it looks like it may be geared to what you are seeking. Much of the rave seems to be it's event driven nature (unusual for web apps). I hope to be using it myself in the next few months. If the reviews are any clue, I would expect it to become part of a future release of PHP. Time will tell. Warren Vail -----Original Message----- From: Pablo Gosse [mailto:gossep@xxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 4:23 PM To: Stuart Felenstein; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Session and validation [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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
