Redirection

[Anon]

I am making this form for a person at work and I need a little bit of help. It's an application for employment and this is how it works.

User comes to form page. Fills out general info, selects which position he/she wants from a drop down menu. They hit the Next button. Now, depending on what they selected on the drop down menu will determine the next form they fill out.

I tried doing this with an include but my victory was not yet to be celebrated. How might I go about doing this somewhat simple redirect?

[Anon]

you might be able to use this

if($dropdown = "jobs")
{
header('Location: http://www.site.com/jobs')
}
else
etc .....

Al

[Anon]

well, its something like that. But in this case, they are already at the application page. Ill simplify it all.

User goes to page, fills out a form with name, address, etc.

User then selects job title from drop down menu (from about 20 differ jobs).

User then clicks "Next" link which will bring them to a more detailed application page for that specific job title.

I need to have the varialbes carried over also (name, address...) so that once the user is 100% done filling out the form, they hit submit, and it e-mails the info to me.

[techek]

It seems to me that your question is not much about how to redirect but how to show different info depending on the value of a variable. Eg. if your form contains a <SELECT>-tag named "jobtitle" like this :

<select name="jobtitle">
<option value="1">Webmaster</option>
..
<option value="20">PHP-developer</option>
</select>

.. you could branch your code in the called PHP-script to show relevant and detailed info about the jobtitle like this :

<?php
$details = array(
"1" => "Webmasters need to know HTML, CSS and graphic-packages",
..
"20" => "As a PHP-developer you must know how to use variables and react on form-input"
);

echo $details[$jobtitle];
?>

I hope you a get a few ideas from this? And I suggest you take a look at how to handle input from forms and such too ...

[warmwind]

Assuming your form goes:

<form method="post" action="nextstep.php">

<select name="jobs">
<option value="1">UN Inspector</option>
<option value="2">Celebrity Stalker</option>
</select>

<input type="submit" value="NEXT">
</form>

In nextstep.php, the variable $job automatically contains 1 or 2 (or however many options you have)

if($jobs == 1) {
appropriate form here
}

if($jobs == 2) {
appropriate form here
}

Personally, I'd use includes, with the variables passed echoed where needs be. If includes aren't working, check php.ini in the paths section.

OR, you could use javascript to dynamically alter the form.target.value when an onChange event is triggered in the <select> statement.. so you have inspector.php, stalker.php etc

In any case, I urge you to have fun with your friend by slipping in fields like "Number of bowel movements per day" etc., and see if he spots em in time.

Or not.