Hello everyone,
Thanks for your suggestions.
For my variable in the value area of the text input field I enter
value="<?php echo $name"; ?>
Prior to this I assign the variable $name to:
$name = stripslashes($_POST['name']);
I hope this is correct.
Sticky forms sounds exactly what i'm looking for. I've changed my
action attribute to
<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>
The first thing I do once the page is loaded is check whether or not
submit is set, if it is not I display the form, which is in a function
call. If submit is set I want to begtin validation, so i'm deciding to
merge my two files in to one, I like this better. My question is say
for example the name text field is not filled out but all the other
required fields are how do I get the form to redisplay itself? I was
thinking a location redirect, but this doesn't sound right.
Thanks.
Dave.
On 7/4/10, Paul M Foster <paulf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 01:57:01PM -0400, David Mehler wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I've got a form with several required fields of different types. I
>> want to have the php script process it only when all the required
>> fields are present, and to redisplay the form with filled in values on
>> failure so the user won't have to fill out the whole thing again.
>> One of my required fields is a text input field called name. If it's
>> not filled out the form displayed will show this:
>>
>> <input type="text" name="name" id="name" size="50" value="<?php
>> echo($name); ?>" /> <br />
>>
>> Note, I've got $_POST* variable processing before this so am assigning
>> that processing to short variables.
>> If that field is filled out, but another required one is not that form
>> field will fill in the value entered for the name field.
>> This is working for my text input fields, but not for either select
>> boxes or textareas. Here's the textarea also a required field:
>>
>> <textarea name="description" id="description" cols="50" rows="10"
>> value="<?php echo($description); ?>"></textarea>
>
> Textarea fields don't work this way. To display the prior value, you
> have to do this:
>
> <textarea name="description><?php echo $description; ?></textarea>
>
>>
>> What this does, if a user fills out this field, but misses another, it
>> should echo the value of what was originally submitted. It is not
>> doing this. Same for my select boxes, here's one:
>>
>> <select name="type" id="type" value="<?php echo($type); ?>">
>> <option value="0" selected="selected">-- select type --</option>
>> <option value="meeting"> - Meeting - </option>
>> <option value="event"> - Event - </option>
>> </select>
>
> The "value" attribute of a select field won't do this for you. You have
> to actually set up each option with an either/or choice, like this:
>
> <option value="0" <?php if ($type == 'meeting') echo 'selected="selected"';
> ?>> - Meeting - </option>
>
> Since doing this is pretty tedious, I use a function here instead:
>
> function set_selected($fieldname, $value)
> {
> if ($_POST[$fieldname] == $value)
> echo 'selected="selected"';
> }
>
> And then
>
> <option value="meeting" <?php set_selected('type', 'meeting');
> ?>>Meeting</option>
>
> HTH,
>
> Paul
>
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