On 7/23/07, Daniel Kasak <dkasak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks for the response Dan. Us Dans have to stick together :)
On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 17:37 -0700, Dan wrote:
> Then validate the field obviously!
> $description = "";
> $categoryid = "";
>
> if(isset($_POST['description']))
> $description = "?description=$_POST['description']";
>
> if(isset($_POST['categoryid']))
> {
> if($description != "") $categoryid = "&"; else $categoryid = "?"; // if a
> description has been entered you'll need an & symbol otherwise a ?
> $category .= "categoryid=$_POST['categoryid']"; // append category to
> itself with the posted info
> }
Hmmmm. Yeah I thought it would come to that. I was hoping for a quick &
nasty fix.
> I didn't test this it's just off the top of my head, also you should
> sanitize the input before you do anythign with it really, but that's another
> issue. Also this is really something that you should be doing with ajax
> rather than having the page reloading, and passing variables back, etc.
> This is the EXACT purpose that Ajax as made for, validation of info. Check
> out XAJAX it's very simple to use but powerfull when you need it.
I will try to make some time for investigating ajax. I'm mostly
developing in Perl, and doing nice GUI stuff ( ie no web stuff - this is
a once-off maintenance thing ), so I'll a little out of my comfort
zone ...
Thanks again for your help.
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Hello, Dans!
Dan K., is there any reason the validation can't reside within the
same script as the form, then forward on success? A very simple
example:
<?
if($_POST) {
// Check to ensure that your variables are all correct,
// then use header("Location: successful-target.php?var1=a&var2=b");
// And then, on forwarding, remember to exit;
}
?>
<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>">
<INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="var1" VALUE="<?=$_POST['var1'];?>"><BR />
<INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="var2" VALUE="<?=$_POST['var2'];?>"><BR />
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="GO!">
</FORM>
Since the user will start with a blank form, and the $_POST values
won't already be set, the values in the form will be blank on the
initial page load, but for unsuccessful attempts, they'll be populated
with the correct data.
~ Dan^[3]
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