Hi All, Hi i am a newbie in PHP environment. First of all my sincere regards to all behind developing this fabulous language & of-course to every one who are sharing their knowledge & views making others comfortable with the same. Coming to the point i am trying to create a contact form applying server side validation for my site using PHP. Here the problem had arises. I have designed a from & applied validation referring the tutorials available on web but unfortunately it is not working. I am applying the validation & trying to show the error in the same field if there Here i am sending you the code snippet what i am trying to do. Your help is highly appreciable. kindly help me out. *form.php:-* <body> <?php $required = array("name"=>"Name","number"=>"Number","email"=>"Email","detail"=>"Comment"); foreach($required as $field => $label){ if(!$_POST[$field]){ $warnings[$field] = "Required"; } if($_POST["email"] && !eregi ("^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$",$_POST["email"])) $warnings["email"] = "Invalid Email Format"; if($_POST["number"] && !eregi ("^[0-9]{10}$",$_POST["number"])) $warnings["number"] = "Invalid number Format"; if(count($warnings)>0){ ?> <!-- start form--> <div class="post"> <h2 class="title-credit">Contact Form:-</h2> <div class="entry" style="padding-left:30px;"> <form name="feedback" method="post" action="submit.php"> <p><div style="padding:3px;">Name <span style="margin-left:20px"><input name="name" type="text" id="name" size="40" <?php if($$warnings["name"]) echo 'style=\"shaded\"';?> value="<?php echo $_POST["name"];?>"><?php echo $warnings["name"];?>></span></div> <div style="padding:3px;">Number <span style="margin-left:10px"><input name="number" type="text" id="number" size="40" <?php if($$warnings["number"]) echo 'style=\"shaded\"';?> value="<?php echo $_POST["number"];?>"><?php echo $warnings["number"];?></span></div> <div style="padding:3px;">Email <span style="margin-left:22px"><input name="email" type="text" id="email" size="40" <?php if($$warnings["email"]) echo 'style=\"shaded\"';?> value="<?php echo $_POST["email"];?>"><?php echo $warnings["email"];?></span></div> <div style="padding:3px;">Comment <span style="margin-left:0px"><textarea name="detail" cols="50" rows="4" id="detail" <?php if($$warnings["detail"]) echo 'style=\"shaded\"';?> value="<?php echo $_POST["detail"];?>"></textarea><?php echo $warnings["detail"];?></span></div> <div style="padding:3px; padding-left:150px;"><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"> <input type="reset" name="Reset" value="Reset"></div></p> </form> <?php } else{ echo "Thanks for valuable comments"; } ?> </body> *submit.php* <? $con=mysql_connect("localhost","test","test1234") or die (mysql_errno().":<b> ".mysql_error()."</b>"); mysql_select_db("dbname",$con) or die (mysql_errno().":<b> ".mysql_error()."</b>"); $insert_query = 'insert into GUESTBOOK (NAME,NUMBER,EMAIL,DETAIL) values( "' . $_POST['name'] . '", "' . $_POST['number'] . '", "' . $_POST['email'] . '", "' . $_POST['detail'] . '" )'; mysql_query($insert_query) or die ('Error updating database'); mysql_close($con); ?> header('Location: http://www.sweetsamaira.com/guest.php'); Kindly help me out. Thanks in advance. -- Kind Regards, Vivek Jadiya