Bouncing form data.....

Cinquecento

Hi,

If I have a form that submits to a pure PHP script for validation and processing - how do I pass ALL the form data back to the source form if there is a validation error - as a POST operation - NOT url encrypted.

I need a 'reflect' or 'bounceback' script...

Ian

Yes - this relates to my other post 'secure server pages fail to load'.....

gnuix

Is the form in a php script, or is it just in an html page?
Are you posting from

form.php -> validation.php

and want validation.php to send data back to form.php without doing a get?

Back in my perl days I would (any only if I was forced to do it as above, for say off site validation of cc#'ers):

within form.php write socket code (there are php libraries to accomplish this, though I dont recall them off hand, perhaps curl?) to perform a post against validation.php, validation.php will return a small set of data, in the case of credit card verification it would return an xml'ish document with result codes. This data is then available within form.php to be used at your convinence.

So:
form.php -- post's like a web browser would --> validation.php
validation.php -- outputs like a web server would --> result
form.php -- reads results like a web browser --> outputs html again

But, for something like validation couldnt you just use form.php and have it post back to itself?? That way all the data is in form.php, you just have an if statement to determine what data to output based on the validation.

Hope that helps, kinda complicated the first way. I would normaly for validation do it the second way.

Brian Cobb

mjr

i use such method

function FormRepost($url,$addon,$reserved,$headers=0)
{
 global $HTTP_POST_VARS;

 $url=parse_url($url);
 $fp=fsockopen($url["host"], (empty($url["port"])?80:$url["port"]), &$errno,
&$errstr, 30);
 if(!$fp)
  return false;
 else
 {
  $query="";
  foreach($HTTP_POST_VARS as $key=>$val)
   if(!in_array($key,$reserved))
    $query.="$key=$val&";
  if(empty($addon))
   $query=substr($query,0,-1);
  else
   $query.=$addon;
  $http_request=
"POST ".$url["path"]." HTTP/1.0
Host: ".$url["host"]."
Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-length: ".strlen($query)."

$query
";

  fputs ($fp,$http_request);
  $reply="";
  while (!feof($fp))
   $reply.=fgets($fp,128);
  fclose ($fp);

  if(!$headers)
   $reply=substr($reply,strpos($reply,"\r\n\r\n")+4);
  if(empty($reply))
   $reply=true;
 }
 return $reply;
}

Cinquecento

Yes - these validation scripts are currently in the form page - but for some strange reason the form is unavailable most of the time when I click submit.

There seems no particular reason for this - so I've got to split the validation routines to separate pages.

Ian

Cinquecento

Well - I found a quick dodge - just duplicate the pages and get them to refer to eachother!

It seems to stop this 'page unavailable error' and works until I strip the code out - which I won't do until I can understand how the form content forwarding code works (thanks mrj).

ab4net

i think just resubmit the things (VARS) via a hidden fields in a new form, its can be easly done ..