Re: HTML Forms, PHP Question

[Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 11:00 -0500, Stephen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> First question to the list.
> 
> I am writing a control panel for a web site and there will be about 20 
> HTML forms.
> 
> Instead of creating 20 PHP files to process the submit data, is there a 
> way that I can do this with a single PHP file.
> 
> Either specify a specific function for each form, or use a case 
> statement somehow to direct to the function.


Yes...

<?php

$handlers = array
(
    'myLoginForm'        => 'handler_myLoginForm',
    'myRegistrationForm' => 'handler_myRegistrationForm',
    'myProfileForm'      => 'handler_myProfileForm',
    'myDonationForm'     => 'handler_myDonationForm',
);

$action = isset( $_POST['formName'] ) ? $_POST['formName'] : null;

if( isset( $handlers[$action] ) )
{
    $handlers[$action]( $_POST );
}

function handler_myLoginForm( $form )
{
    print_r( $form );
}

function handler_myRegistrationForm( $form )
{
    print_r( $form );
}

function handler_myProfileForm( $form )
{
    print_r( $form );
}

function handler_myDonationForm( $form )
{
    print_r( $form );
}

?>

Alternatively you can use the following style:

<?php

$action = isset( $_POST['formName'] ) ? $_POST['formName'] : null;

if( $action && function_exists( ($handler = 'handler_'.$action) ) )
{
    $handler( $_POST );
}

if( isset( $handlers[$action] ) )
{
    $handlers[$action]( $_POST );
}

function handler_myLoginForm( $form )
{
    print_r( $form );
}

function handler_myRegistrationForm( $form )
{
    print_r( $form );
}

function handler_myProfileForm( $form )
{
    print_r( $form );
}

function handler_myDonationForm( $form )
{
    print_r( $form );
}

?>

Cheers,
Rob.
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