Form Action Help

phpnewbie911

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to prevent some one from going directly to a page by entering information into the browser. For example if I have a page named subscribe.php. And I put this http://www.mydomain.com/subscribe.php into the browser it goes directly to my confirmation page. The only way to go to that page should be by my form.

What I need is for the subscriber to complete a brief form on another page first. The form action is post.
I've see it done somewhere a couple of different ways. I think it goes something like this.

<?
if (isset($submit)) {
  }
?>

But this does not work. Do I need to set the submit button to a certain value or what?
Could someone help me with this?

Thanks In Advance!😕

sgoku01

I think $submit will only work if you combine subscribe.php and pre-subscripe.php to one script.

I'm not sure, but maybe a browser doesn't send the 'send-button' to the next page; only the values of the fields.

phpnewbie911

Thanks sgoku01.
Could I do it something like:

<?
if (isset(form action==post)) {
  }
?>

I tried that, but I get an error message like this:

Parse error: parse error, expecting T_VARIABLE' or'$'' in /home/xxxx/public_html/contact_confirm.php on line 2

The actual script name is contact_confirm.php

I feel I'm really close. Any suggestions, anybody?😕

Tekron-X

Usually you get that error if Register Globals is set to off. whish is the best way but then you need to use the Super Globals. If it is set to on you do not need the super globals. If you need super global help go to www.php.net and check out the PHP manule.

phpnewbie911

Thanks Tekron.
I read a little of the php manual chapter 5 and this is what I think might work but it needs a little fine tuning.


<?
  if {REQUEST_METHOD==post || isset($_POST[realname]) || isset($_POST[email])) {
    }
} else {
    print "You are NOT authorize to enter this page. This page is accessed by form ONLY.";
}
?>

Could some one offer suggestions?:confused:

phpnewbie911

Thanks Tekron.
I read a little of the php manual chapter 5 and this is what I think might work but it needs a little fine tuning.


<?
  if {REQUEST_METHOD==post || isset($_POST[realname]) || isset($_POST[email])) {
    }
} else {
    print "You are NOT authorize to enter this page. This page is accessed by form ONLY.";
}
?>

Could some one offer suggestions?