SUBMIT - Save info then redirect : HOW?

Hemiboy

Hi all (My first post! Whoohoo!)

I need some insite on how to make my idea work. I have a form that takes in a customers information. When they hit 'Submit' I want it to save the information in a temporary SQL table THEN go to a pearl page that will verify the info.

I have it working by having the 'submit' refresh the page and when the "$submit = true" the page will get redirected to the Pearl page/

The only problem is that on the pearl page, it can say somthing like "You did not enter a phone number. Please hit the back button to correct." When the user hits the back button, the "$submit = true" gets executed again, and you end up getting automaticlly redirected to the pearl page. 🙁

I want to find a way that the use could hit the back button to corect an error, but not have the redirect executed.

Hope that makes sence!

Thanks in advance

nnichols

It would weem a little strange to use php to input the data into a temp table and then redirecting to a perl cgi to do the validation.

Why no just run the validation in the php page and then insert into the table - or just submit the data straight to the perl script?

Hemiboy

I know very little about pearl. The pearl script is used cause it validates the info but more importantly, sends out emails to the customer and the admininstrator upon a sucessfull submit.

I had it working where I just put all the form variables into the URL as parameters. Not very proper, but it worked, untill I overloaded the URL parameters by inputing too much info in the form.

I'm looking into using Cookies to store the data. Any suggestions??

nnichols

Why don't you get rid of the perl script and do the validation and mail sending from PHP?

dalecosp

Originally posted by nnichols
Why don't you get rid of the perl script and do the validation and mail sending from PHP?

Hear Here!!