desperatly 'IF' checking

[da_marek]

its me again...
look, i really appreciate your help! it means very much to me but as i said its really late (2.10am) and my headache is getting stronger and stronger and i just cant stand it anymore. the only problem is that i must have this thing finished at 8.00am today!!!
im sorry if i sound like a lamer but maybe i really am 🙂
ill try to post this problem to all sections of this forum and i hope that there will be some good answer that will save my ass when i wake up...
ps: weedpacket, your replies make me think in different (better) ways and things are getting clearer... 🙂 thanks!

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so, from the begging:

i have a form with various fields (textboxes, radio buttons and checkboxes). some fields MUST be filled and that is schecked through check.php file. that file looks like this:

<?php

function checkit($varname)
{
  $chk = $_POST[$varname];
  echo "$submit_f_charter_hr: $chk<br>\n";
  return !empty($chk);
}

error_reporting(63);
error_reporting (E_ALL);
$chkflag = true;

if(!empty($_POST['submit_f_charter_hr']))
	{
	if ($chkflag) checkit('model_jahte');
	if ($chkflag) checkit('br_kabina');
	if ($chkflag) checkit('br_kreveta');
	if ($chkflag) checkit('br_putnika');
	if ($chkflag) checkit('skiper');
	if ($chkflag) checkit('mjesto_polaska');
	if ($chkflag) checkit('datum_polaska');
	if ($chkflag) checkit('trajanje');

if ($chkflag)

header("Location: osobni_hr.php");

else

header("Location: nepotpuna_hr.html");

}
else

header("Location: neposlana_hr.html");

?>

submit_f_charter_hr is the name of the button on the first page...
so, if all required fields are filled user should be redirected to osobni_hr.php where is another form. if some required fields are not filled he should be redirected to nepotpuna_hr.html and if there was some other problem he should go to neposlana_hr.html.
(btw: osobni_hr means something like personal information, nepotpuna_hr is a warning page that some fields are not filled and neposlana_hr says that there was a problem, please email blah blah...)
you can see this thing in live at http://www.mesmerized.ws/dimare/f-charter_hr.html. just click on 'salji' button.
and the problem is that whatever i do i am redirected to neposlana_hr.html.
i really dont know why this is happening and even if there was lots of explanations and good advices its still not working.

[drtebi]

Well, I am cannot give you an exact answer to how to make your script work, however, when I do checking of POST variables, I usually do something like this:

$error = false;
if($_POST['some'] == ''){
  $error['some'] = 'the field some cannot be empty';
}
if(strlen($_POST['name']) > 30){
  $error['name'] = 'the field name cannot be longer than 30 characters';
}
.....
if($error !== false){
  // do something
}
else{
  // do something else
}

Note the use of !==, which helps to make sure that $error is not exactly "false".
Then, by using the $error['fieldname'] array, it's a nice way of setting up error messages for the user, e.g. underneath the field that was entered wrong.

Hope it gives you at least an idea...

cheers

[da_marek]

...and i woke up in 6.30 to complete my mission... but it wasnt successful!
suddenly i realized that the problem is in validating fields. why? because the script ALWAYS redirects me to neposlana_hr.html. but i cant figure out is the problem in first part

function checkit.....

or later in validation part

if(!empty($_POST'submit_f_charter_hr')).......

is there any easier way to perform this stupid validating???
ps: i looked on other forums and some people had had same problem and the solution was same as mine:
if(!empty($_POST['submit_f_charter_hr'])) must be changed to if(!empty($_POST['submit_f_charter_hr_x'])).
so i was trying and trying and trying but nothing... wtf am i doing wrong?????