[RESOLVED] Forms, Displaying, then Processing

shifty18

I have my form where you enter your infomation to the the boxes and is set out like

<form action="data.php" method="get">
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fdsfds
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</form>

my second page shows all the infomation correctly and works. i have some checks like

elseif (location=="")
{
echo "lalalal";
}
else
rfs
fdsfdsfds
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fds

This works fine but i want this to just display the infomation so people can check it, then they press the submit button and this goes to a third page whitch says "form subbmitted" and executes an e-mail script.

how can i do this as i have tried adding a form tag a the top like on my first page, but it doesn't like this. so how can i do this so it submits the data to a 3rd page where en e-mail scrips runs and also makes a .txt document to hold some infomation.

i have the e-mail script and it works, but i just need to be able to submit the infomation to the 3rd page as i want the users to be able to check the infomation first for erros

thanks

insectis

If there is a form on the second page, you can use hidden fields to grab the variables and then send them to the third page.

ex:

<input type="hidden" name="location" value="$location">

This will give the hidden values the same name and data that the variables from the first form held.

If you don't want to use a form on the second page, you can just append the variables to the URL.

ex:

<a href="next.html?location=$location">Click  here if all your information is correct</a>

hth,

insectis

shifty18

well I dont have any forms opn my second page, it just displayes the infomation that you enterd. but could this infomaiton be displayed in a hidden form so like...

at the min i just have

<b>Your name is:</B>$name

sort of thing

so is that what you mean by hidden form fileds?

idont quite understand the bottom bit you wrote though, if this is correct thought i wont need to know that,

thanks

insectis

No, actually if you don't have a form in your second page, then forget about the hidden fields altogether.

Here's what you will need to do, use the <a href> tag below to forward your users to the next page.

BTW, in the last post I mistakenly put "next.html", when it needs to be "next.php", "next" being your third page.

<a href="next.php?location=$location&var2=$var2&var3=$var3&varN=$varN">Click Here</a>

$var1, $var2, and $varN are other variables you are passing from your form and would like to include in the email on the third page.

hth,

insectis

shifty18

so i have to include all of my veribls in my <a herf> button

so like <a herf="page3.php"?location=$location&$name&$date&$time">Click here</A>

i dont understand what the location=$location bit is about,

i have always used the <form></form> tages used with a submit button

and why dohave some veribles sayin $VarN=VarN ..why = and not &

thanks

insectis

"location" was the example variable that you used in your first post, so I assumed it was one of your variables.

Your href would look like this:

<a href="page3.php"?name=$name&date=$date&time=$time">Click here</a>

Then on your third page you can access $name, $date, and $time and they will have the appropriate values.

shifty18

ahh i see where you were comming from with that location now. ahh i think i understand now i need to asing the verible to a name, i get it now

thanks for your help

much appraciated

shifty18

i typed

<a href="submit.php"?familyname=$familyname&address=$address1&$address2&$address3&$address4&groomsname=$groomname&bridesname=$bridesname&mainfamilymembers=$family&numberofguests=$guests&foodsurpplyer=$food&foodprefrance=$foodpref&musicsurpplyer=$music&choiceofmusic=$musicpref&drinkprovider=$drink&drinkreguests=$drinkreq&date=$date&timearrivle=$time&location=$location&questions=$questions>Click Here To Submit</a>

but it gave my an error of browsers not been able to reconise this. What have i done wrong? their must be an eaier way then typing out all the veribles again.

shifty18

ok, i got it working but all it displays is the script message but not the verible name in hte message. it should say

thanks, <$familyname>, for filling in form,

it just says

thanks, , for filling in form

it also makes a .txt document as well with the detials, but it didnt add the veribles in to the doc, just the writing, ill show you the script

<?
$fp = fopen("booking.txt", "w") ; //w will append or create a new file
flock($fp, LOCK_EX); // lock the file

fwrite($fp, "$familyname submitted a booking. \nTheir e-mail address was $email \nTheir phone number was $phone \nTheir Address is $address1 $address2 $address3 $Address4 \nThe Date of the booking is $date \nThe location is $location \nat $time\n\n");

flock($fp, LOCK_UN); // unlock the file
fclose($fp);

echo "<font face=verdana size=1>Thanks, " . $familyname . ", for making the booking, we will get back to you soon,";

thanks