form within form

john22

I have this problem to solve in PHP :

This is a simple textarea form

echo "<form action=\"test.php\" method=\"post\">";
echo "<textarea name=\"sometext\" rows=\"10\" wrap=\"virtual\" cols=\"7\">".$sometext."</textarea>";
echo "<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\">";
echo "</form>";

And, I want to display AFTER this form, a file upload input, and AFTER it, the Submit button for the first one, like that :

// the text area

echo "<form action=\"test.php\" method=\"post\">";
echo "<textarea name=\"sometext\" rows=\"10\" wrap=\"virtual\" cols=\"7\">".$sometext."</textarea>";

//the file upload file fields

echo "<form method=\"post\" enctype=\"multipart/form-data\" action=\"someupload.php\" >"
."<INPUT TYPE=\"hidden\" name=\"MAX_FILE_SIZE\" value=\"50000\">"
."<input type=\"file\" name=\"userfile\">"
."<input value=\"Upload\" type=\"submit\">"
."</form>"; //end for upload FORM

echo "<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\">";

echo "</form>";//end for first FORM

This is the FORM inside FORM and doesn't work at all.
How should I resolve, with this order display list of elements
- text area
- upload fields
- submit button for first form

Thanks,

planetsim

There are two solutions

1) Make it one whole form.
2) Make two seperate forms.

john22

If I make'it one single form, suppose the user just upload a file, when he clicks on UPLOAD button, the form passes values to other page and I don't want that.

I need something like :

<form1>
<text area>
</form>
.
.
.
<form2>
<input type=file> //upload buttons
</form> // the display should remain in this page
// after the upload command

<the submit command for form1> //pass variables to other page

tbach2

You could use a javascript solution: it would look something like this

<input type="button"  value="submit" onclick="document.first_form_name.submit();">

But, if the user thinks he is uploading something, he will be mistaken 🙁

I would make it all the same form, then test your variables in the php script and respond accordingly.

leatherback

Hi,

You could use CSS for changing the layout of your page. You write the page having the normal <form><imput><submit></form> order.

The submit button you give a new ID, which is located at the bottom of the page.

Have a look at formatting of pages using CSS, on the w3c.org website.

(Although for your own sake.. Use 1 form, and check the variables, as suggested before).