Help Pls, Global Varibles with Forms Post Method

[m1anh]

Can one of you nice PHP people help me with this problem.

I have one PHP script and 3 Functions.

Function 1, Places a form on the screen requesting lots of data.
Data is returned by POST Method.

Function 2, Formats and places the data from the form into the table.

Function 3, Writes data to mySQL database.

The flow works fine, but no data from the form is transfered to the table function1 to function2.

Now, I am sure that this is due to varibles are local within a function.

How do I Globally declear ALL of the FORMS (POST METHOD) variables for use anywhere in the script or scripts(Session) WITHOUT listing them or specifying them.

I think this has something to do with $_POST $SESSION $HTTP_POST_VARS. But have no idea how to make it work.

Many thanks
Ian.

[ereptur]

The method that I would use would be the $_POST variable. This is, of course, a simplified example.

function view() {
?>
<form method="post">
<input type="fname" />
<input type="lname" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
?>
}

function post() {
   $fname = $_POST["fname"];
   $lname = $_POST["lname"];

   // process the variables
   commit($fname,$lname);
}

function commit($fname,$lname) {
   $query = "INSERT INTO table VALUES (\"$fname\",\"$lname\")";
   $result = mysql_query($query);

   // process the result
   header("Location: $PHP_SELF");
}

[m1anh]

I can see how this is going to work, however, Is it possible to do this without listing each variable. One statement to share all post variables, or a small piece of looping code.

I was hoping that the passing of varibles through functions was not going to be required i.e. function whatever(Variable);

When I don't use functions, form variables automatically become php variables.

Sorry if I am being silly, But I am very new to this. Although I have been do quite well up until now.

Many Thanks
Ian.

[ereptur]

Sure, since $POST is an array you can just step through it.
This bit of code really isn't useful in itself, but you can get the idea.

foreach ($_POST as $var) {
   // do something with you value like
   $value .= $var;
}

[m1anh]

I am sill not sure what I am doing. Can someone please provide a working example of how to convert all the variables within my posted form used in function1, to useable variables within function2.

i.e.

function Functio1(){

Form is here using method POST
with 30 Variables }

function Functio2(){ ; I am working alongs these lines??
// process variables
foreach($POST as ???){
$$var = $POST
}

//the variable in the form 'name' is now $name in functio2

Output table to display }

Sorry for being so thick, but I can not get my head around this.

Regards
Ian