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ADL

Hi,
i'm glad there is a special forum for newbies, it is not quite so embarrassing.

i have a HTML form with an action to a php doc. When it gets there it is checked with ereg und then echoed onto the php doc.
So far no problems (after a week of playing with it).

If it is filled out correctly i want to be able to let the user send it on to a email address (or click on back to change things).

i was thinking about doing it with another form like this:
if ($errors==0)
echo "<input type=submit>" etc.

but it is an awful lot of information (the form is 56k without pics!)and i hope there is another way.
Apart from that it will not look as nice as it does in the php doc.

Hope this is not embarrassingly easy :o
Taff

ADL

is there nobody out there who can help me? Is it my description or is it just impossible. YOU ALL are my last hope.
Help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Taff

I'm all on my own in a foreign country.

cahva

Yeah, your question was a little bit fuzzy. If I understood correctly, you first check the form then if the fields are correct, you give the possibility to either change the entered information or send it.

Ok, heres a solution when you want to go back to change entered information..
In your first form page you have the fields. Put them like this:

<input type="text" name="field1" value="<?=$_POST['field1'] ?>">

Put all the fields like that. Dont worry, they are not showing anything the first time because the $_POST arrays are empty.

In your check-page, put your forms values in hidden fields inside a form. Heres a little snippet so you dont have to write every variable again.

// get keys and values from $_POST. 	
foreach($_POST as $key=>$value)
	{
		echo "<input type='hidden' name='$key' value='$value'>\n"; }
	}

Now when you submit that to the first form, they show up in the input fields.

suntra

A little correction...

use htmlentites() before printing a field value...

echo "<INPUT NAME=\"$field_name\" VALUE=\"" . htmlentities($field_value) . "\" TYPE=\"HIDDEN\">";

Why ?

Suppose the user writes this :
My name is "Ti-Coon"

What will be printed without htmlentites :

You will have a HTML error...

With htmlentities :

Very useful !

ADL

thx for the ideas. After it has been checked in the php page it is 'echoed'. If the fields 'firstname' & 'lastname' were for example filled out with 'adrian' & 'lawley' then in the php page it will look like this:
Applicants Name: Adrian Lawley

Now when this has been done with all the fields it must be possible (?) to send the php page on to an email address which keeps the formatting .
This is how my boss wants it and unfortunately I'm the man to do it. I am not too sure about whether PHP can do this but it seems to be possible to do nearly everything up until now.
thx again,
ADL

cahva

Yeah, its possible. Heres an example:

<?php
// mail-start
$message .= "<html>
<head>
<title>Palaute</title>
<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\">
</head>

<body>
<h3>Some info from www.yourdomain.com</h3>
Applicants Name: {$_POST['firstname']} {$_POST['lastname']}
And some other info blah blah blah
</body>
</html>";
$to = "you@yourdomain.com";
$subject="Put the subject here";
$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
$headers .= "From:someone@yourdomain.com\n";

mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
// mail-end
?>

ADL

Thx Cahva,
this is exactly the sort of thing i was after. Now i've seen the code, it a case of "oh yeah, of course!" Like i said i'm no big programmer.
thx again,
ADL