submiting to two different forms

[tjbarr]

I'm using php

I have a list box:
1
2
3

If the user picks 1 or 2 I want to link to page 1.php and submit those
values to that page.

If the user picks 3, I want to link to page 2.php and submit that value.

How do I do this. I can only seem to link and submit to one page.

I'm trying to use if statements with <FORM METHOD="LINK" ACTION="2.php">
contained inside and with separate submit buttons. Is this possible?

Tammy J. Barr

[mjlively]

I am slightly unclear to what you are trying to do. Are the other items you are trying to submit to the different pages on the same page as your list box? Or do you just want the list box to take you to pages with different forms?

[tjbarr]

My list box [regions]has these choices
National
State
Counties
Metro Area's

this list box is on form 1. If the user picks National I want the form 1 to link to form 3. If the user picks any of the other choices I want form 1 to link to form 2. either way the value of regions needs to be sent to the next form -- either 2 or 3. Does this make sense?

[mjlively]

I think so. I'll give you what I would do and you can tell me if I understand the problem 🙂

This solution is assuming that you already have two form pages called form2.php and form3.php

In the script that processes form1.php do whatever other processing necessary and then add the following code:

<?php
if ($_POST['regions'] == 'National') {
    $nextForm = 'form3.php';
}
else {
  $nextForm = 'form2.php';
}

header("Location: $nextform?regions=$_POST[regions]");
?>

The regions value will then be accessible on the other two pages using either $_GET['regions'] or $regions.

If you have one page serving both forms then just build the two forms seperately on the page. Then use the following code

<?php
if ($_POST['regions'] == 'National') {
?>
<!-- HTML for form 3 -->
<?php
}
else {
?>
<!-- HTML for form 2 -->
<?php
}
?>

In this case region can be accessed through $_POST['regions'] or $regions.

Hope this helped

[tjbarr]

Thanks but I still am doing something wrong because when I submit I am going back to page 1 --- although it is sending the value of region. I already have three pages - page1, 2 and 3 so I used the first example.

[mjlively]

Would you be able to paste the <form> element so I could see what it says? It almost sounds like it is just initially being sent to the wrong page.

[tjbarr]

<FORM>

<b>
<h2>Economic Indicators</h2>
</b>

<p align="left">Please select the regional unit of your interest: <br>
<select name="cboregion" size="6" multiple class="listbox">
<?php

/
Create your SQL statement
/

$sql="SELECT reg_id, reg_name from tbl_regions;";
$result_set = pg_Exec ($conn, $sql);
$rows = pg_NumRows($result_set);

if ((!$result_set) || ($rows < 1)) {
//No connection or no rows returned, so print an error
echo "<H1>ERROR - no rows returned</H1><P>";
exit; //exit the script
}

for ($j=0; $j < $rows; $j++) {
echo "<option value=".pg_result($result_set, $j, "reg_id")."> ".pg_result($result_set, $j, "reg_name")."</option>";
}

?>
</select>

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">
<?php
if ($_POST['cboregion'] == 4)
{
$nextForm = "1.php";
}
else {
$nextForm = "home2".php;
}

header("Location: $nextform?cboregion=$_POST[cboregion]");
?>

</FORM>

[mjlively]

Change your <FORM> tag to

<FORM ACTION="<?php echo $PHP_SELF ?>" METHOD="POST">

[tjbarr]

I tried the new form tag and it still doesn't work. No matter what I pick I go to next form. It doesn't know that $nextform is a variable in the form tag.

What should my form tag look like? I tried
<FORM ACTION="<?php echo $PHP_SELF ?>" METHOD="POST">

Then the url looked like:

http://webdevel.urban.csuohio.edu/econ_ind/<br><b>Warning</b>:%20%20Undefined%20variable:%20%20PHP_SELF%20in%20<b>/var/data/www/econ_ind/home.php</b>%20on%20line%20<b>24</b><br>

if(isset($POST['cboregion'])){
$region=$POST['cboregion'];
echo "the region is $region";
if ($region == 4) {
$nextForm = "1.php";
}
else {
$nextForm = "home2.php";
header("Location: $nextform?

cboregion=$_POSTcboregion]");

}

}

Then I tried
<FORM ACTION=$nextform METHOD="POST">
and it tried to go to nextform.php. It didn't know that it was a variable. HELP!!!!!