Simple problem hard for a newbie like me

PHPslide

First lemme say whatsup to everyone... this is my first post!

Anyway..... I learned from a book that told me to make a seperate .php page for a lot of stuff and I'm starting to learn how to combine them into one page so theres not 15 pages for one simple program.

here is the problem.

I have a Admin CP form on one page, its called:

add_interview.php

It has a form for adding interviews to a site. Usually I would do:

<form method="post" action="[b]do_addinterview.php[/b]">

But why waste a whole page when it can all be accomplished on one page right?

So I used:

<form method="post" action="<? $PHP_SELF; ?>">

Now this created two problems for me. How am I going to get the info submited to a MySQL DB? Well I thought of a simple quick solution... I can just do:

 if (submit) bla bla bla enter all the stuff from this form into my DB

So obviously, when the submit button is pressed it will rerun the page and $submit has then occured so it will have a value of yes I believe... and tada, all is well...

BUT... I am also trying to check to make sure certain fields of the form have been filled out!

So I was taught to do:

	if ((!$artist_group) || (!$interviewer) || (!$snippet) || (!$interview)) {
		header( "Location: [url]http://interviews.com/admin/index.php[/url]" );
		exit;

Well do you see my problem? I can't figure out how to have both if statements work? Any help would be great. I don't know PHP all that well.

Thanks Much!

Thatsmej

hey,
my first post here to 😉

first of all

<form method="post" action="<? $PHP_SELF; ?>">

i should change this to:

<form method="post" action="<? echo $PHP_SELF; ?>">

second:

 if ($submit) bla bla bla enter all the stuff from this form into my DB

is only working when your using a hidden field called "submit" or using a button that has the name "submit" ( and then only when you hit the button, not when you hit enter form out of a field )

just a little note 😉

as i understood from you post your question is how to use your 2 if statements.

if ( ( (!$artist_group) || (!$interviewer) || (!$snippet) || (!$interview) ) AND $submit ) {
		header( "Location: [url]http://interviews.com/admin/index.php[/url]" );
		exit;
}

should work.

good luck

Shrike

A couple of things, when submitting data to a database you should do a header redirect if the submit was successful ( to stop the 'reload' button resubmitting the data)

Also you should use $_POST['variablename'] to access form variables. Your version will only .work on installations where register_globals is enabled

PHPslide

Also you should use $_POST['variablename'] to access form variables. Your version will only .work on installations where register_globals is enabled [/B]

I checked my server phpinfo and it is enabled... but im not sure what you mean. I was actually trying to figure out yesterday what $_POST does? So if anyone could clear that up for me?

BUt also, what exactly do you mean with the "$_POST['variablename'] can you give me an example?

Thanks!

PHPslide

Thatsmej,

Thanks! i'm gonna try your code but at first glance I'm thinking that it won't work. Because when I push submit I'm trying to have the code do some stuff with php. It looks as if with your code it will just redirect with the header function either way?


if ($submit) {

$table_name = "mytable";
$database = "mydb";

Add artist_group, etc. to $database $tablename etc.

I know my code is nothing near real code, its jsut an example of what im doing. So do you think your code will still work for my problem Thatsmej?

Thanks!