Passing variables?

[inkfish]

Hello,

I first have a registration page then a page where they verify what they've written and then it registers the data. in the Verify page whats the best way to do so it just holds on to the variables passed from the registration page with a FORM...so the page that registers the data gets them too??

Registration page -> Sends variables with a form to -> verifying page -> sends the same data to -> a page who registers the data.

Thanks!

[devinemke]

you have a few choices:
1. hidden form elements (<input type="hidden" ...)
2. sessions

i suggest sessions which are a little more elegant and secure

[epp_b]

Actually, you could have everything into one page and check which variables are true at any given time:

if (!$formData) {
// display form code here
// make a field in the form by the name of the variable in the control structure (if statement) above
}
else {
// validate input and allow user to go back if it is invalid
}

This could also work just as well using a switch statement.

For validating the input, it's as simple as checking each field individually using an if control structure:

if ($name == "") {
  $badForm .= "- Name <br>";
}
if ($email == "") {
  $badForm .= "- E-mail Address <br>";
}

This could validate a simple form with a name and an e-mail address (of course, feel free to go more extensively into validating the e-mail address with a regular expression.

Once you are done with the form, check if the variable $badForm exists. If it does, there's something wrong with the form. If not, the form must contain valid data. So simply do something like:

if ($badForm) {
echo "Your form contained errors <br>" . $badForm;
}
else {
// rest of code to process form
}

Happy PHPing 🙂