field verifier

cdennste

I need to verify feilds in my email form.

I was looking for a point in the right direction or an example.

Any help would be great...

Newbie....

cdennste

Iwas able to get it to validate the form, but it still sends it even thought the feilds are not filled out.

What can i do to redirect it back to the form?

Thanks
Craig

if($issue=="" || $impact=="" || $starttime=="" || $endtime=="" || $workaround=="" || $resolution=="" || $ticket=="" || $contact=="") {
echo "Please fill out every field!";
}

tomhath

That's not very comprehensive validation.

Go over to www.google.com and search for the following, it will give you a long list of articles on how to do it.

javascript form validation submit

cdennste

It really doesn't have to be complicated, just want to make sure when people send out the OUTAGE notifications here at work that every Field is filled in.

I got that working but I cannot figure out how to get it to redirect back to the form, if a field isn't filled out.

Here is the code I am trying.

if($issue=="" || $impact=="" || $starttime=="" || $endtime=="" || $workaround=="" || $resolution=="" || $ticket=="" || $contact=="") {
echo "Please fill out every field!";
echo "<script language=\"javascript\">document.open(\"www.yahoo.com\")</script>";
}else{

cahva

Ok, you got a form and you submit it to lets say validate.php. In that file you make your checks and stuff and when it fails, redirect it back to the form.

if($issue=="" || $impact=="" || $starttime=="" || $endtime=="" || $workaround=="" || $resolution=="" || $ticket=="" || $contact=="") 
{ 
header("Location:http://www.yoursite.com/form.php?err=1");
}
else { 
// Do your stuff, mail your form or whatever
}

Ok, if validation fails, it sends you back to the form with a variable $_GET['err'] which is 1. Now all you have to do is put that echo somewhere in your form.php to inform user that there was a problem.

if ($_GET['err']==1)
{
echo "Please fill out every field!"; 
}

cdennste

thank you... That was just what I needed...

You DA MAN

Thanks agian....

cdennste

Well i am having a little trouble getting the

ECHO Please fill out every field

to come up....

It redirects it back to the whater.php?err=1 page but doesn't populate the echo part

cahva

Well, It should work the way I said. The only thing that comes to my mind is that the PHP-version you are running on the server is old. If thats the case, then change $_GET['err'] to $HTTP_GET_VARS ['err']

If that doesnt work, then you can also try plain $err. That should work too if you have register_globals turned on(Allthought I dont recommend using it).

cdennste

that was it, I must have an older version of PHP running...

I am going to be upgrading that today... Got to get Pspell working... that should be fun...

Then i will have to change it back correct...

Thanks
Agian for all the help...

a Newbie just learned a trick or two...

Thanks