oop forms

[digitalbart2k]

I had a question about multi step forms from this
old post which was answered but i have a new question as a result. I am using PHP Object Forms and trying to make a multi step form. Below is an example of the code.

$form_command = "stage1";
$form_errormessage = "";

function stage_1 () { 

create form objects code here

if ($myForm->getSubmittedData()  && $myForm->isDataValid()) {

$form_command = "stage2";

return $form_command;

} else {

$myForm->display();

}

switch($form_command){

case "stage1":

$a = stage_1();

if ($a == "stage2") {

$form_command = "stage2";

} else {

$form_command = "stage1";

  }

break;

case "stage2":

But i still can't get $form_command to switch to stage2. I assume it has something to do with the scope of the variable $form_command in the function stage_1() but I am unsure?

Any help/ ideas would be great.

Thanks

[sarahk]

the first thing i'd want to do is echo out the return values of these two
if ($myForm->getSubmittedData() && $myForm->isDataValid())

and see if they are returning true. I suspect that you still have some work to do in them.

gl

[digitalbart2k]

i can get it to echo out something for example

// function

stage_1 () {

oop form code

if (!($myForm->getSubmittedData()  && $myForm->isDataValid())) {

$form_command = "stage1";
$form_errormessage = "Validation error!";

$myForm->display();

 } else {

$form_command = "stage2";

ECHO "Still STAGE 1 NOW!";

return $form_command;

    }


}

i had no problem of actually echoing "stage2", but for some reason it can't access the $form_command variable.

I think the logic causes it to stop being run because of the if / else statement in the function?

It then stops and does not go to stage2