Hi, At work we use Java so one thing is annoying me. Is there really no way to create a persistent object in PHP? As far as my understanding goes each object will be recreated on each and every request. The reason I was asking is I wanted to create a form object that would be used as follows. which would require recreating the from stuff three times at least Once for a JS file. Once for a HTML output. And once for Server side validation) Please note that the following is just an example off the top of my head the code to do this hasn't been written yet and the exact implemantation may be different. It would be much better to only create the object once. <?php ... Other stuff goes here. ... //Create a new form formReg = new Form ("registration"); regStyle = new RenderStyle(HTML_AND_JAVASCRIPT_TABLELESS); formReg->setRenderStyle(); /** * Set the username field and its Validation */ fieldUsername = new Field("username"); fieldUsername->setLabel("User Name"); fieldUsername->setType(FIELD_TEXT); fieldUsername->setCompulsary(true); fieldUsername->setUnique(true); fieldUsername->setMinLength(6); fieldUsername->setMaxLength(20); fieldUsername->setMaxLengthError(fieldUsername->getMinLengthError()); fieldUsername->setValidCharachters(CHARACHTERS_A-Z_1-9); formReg->addField(fieldUsername) ..... //OTHER FIELD STUFF HERE ..... //Adds the link to a generated JS file at the top; if (frmReg->needsJSCode == true) { output->add(formReg->getJSValidationURL) } .... //CONTINUE WITH THE REST OF THE HTML PAGE .... //Insert the form into the HTML output->add(fromReg->getForm(regForm)); ?> In the custom JS file we need; <?php frmReg->getValidationAsJavascript() ?> Then after this in the page that receives the form submission we again need to get the validation rules which means recreating the the form object at least three times. This time to validate serverside. <?php session_start() { .... if (!frmReg->validates) { $_SESSION[VALIDATION_ERROR] = frmReg->getValidationError(); $_SESSION[ERROR_FIELD] = frmReg->getValidationField(); ... //logging goes here ... HttpResponse::redirect ( REGISTRATION_URL) ; .... } else { ... // Attempt to save to the DB // Redirect on error // log a successfull registration ... require_once (REGISTRAION_SUCCESS_PAGE); } ?> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php