Sure enough Kirk! That was it. Seems strange that you can set a
name/value pair on the <form> tag, but they aren't used. Guess they
were just kidding ;-)
Greg
Greg Dotts wrote:
Sure enough Kirk! That was it. Seems strange that you can set a
name/value pair on the <form> tag, but they aren't used. Guess they
were just kidding ;-)
Greg
kjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I think the problem is that the name and value attributes of the
<form> tag aren't posted with the rest of the data, i.e.,
$_POST['form'] isn't defined.
You will need to code the form identifier a different way, e.g.,
either a <hidden> field, or, unique name and value attributes in a
<submit> button.
Kirk
Greg Dotts <listmember@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 03/07/2005 03:47:55 PM:
Hi All,
I'm new to PHP, but have read my "Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL" manual
and have searched the net for a solution to my (presumably simple)
problem.
I have a series of HTML forms that need to be processed. I am tring
to build a "process.php" file which will evaluate the FORM variable
and select the proper code from a SWITCH statement. I have
processed these forms using a different construct with IF ELSE
statments, but it's getting messy and SWITCH looked like a good
solution. The problem is that it doesn't work - isn't that always
the problem! I can't find anything but simple examples of SWITCH
usage on the net. Would someone be good enough to evaluate this
script? Much thanks!!
Below is the "process.php" script and the form tags go something
like
this:
<FORM action="process.php" method="post" name="form"
value="addcontact">
Some fields go here...
</FORM>
<FORM action="process.php method="post" name="form" value="addletter">
More fields go here...
</FORM>
<?php
//Include database access info
include("setup.php");
//Connect to the database server
@mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass)or die(mysql_error());
@mysql_select_db ($db) or die(mysql_error());
//<------ Begin Main Script ------>
$x = $_POST['form'];
//Evaluate which form we are receiving and process the results
switch ($x) {
case "addcontact":
//Get the form variables
$cgroup = $_POST['cgroup'];
$fname = $_POST['fname'];
$lname = $_POST['lname'];
$address = $_POST['address'];
$city = $_POST['city'];
$state = $_POST['state'];
$zipcode = $_POST['zipcode'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
//Insert form data into the database
$query = "INSERT INTO contacts SET cgroup='$cgroup', fname='$fname',
lname='$lname', address='$address', city='$city', state='$state',
zipcode='$zipcode', phone='$phone', email='$email'";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die (mysql_error());
break;
case "addletter":
//Get the form variables
$lgroup = $_POST['lgroup'];
$lname = $_POST['lname'];
$content = $_POST['lcontent'];
//Insert form data into the database
$query = "INSERT INTO letters SET lgroup='$lgroup', lname='$lname',
lcontent='$lcontent'";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die (mysql_error());
break;
}
mysql_close();
?>
//END SCRIPT
--
Best regards,
Greg Dotts
If quitters never win, and winners never quit,
what fool came up with, "Quit while you're ahead"?
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