Need help with writing logic

zzz

Need some help with logic.

I need page for registration. I will have several stages. Here's the flow I'd like to have:

include form1

if all required fields entered
include form2.html + pass all values from form1 in hidden fields
else return form1 + error message

form2 -> if all required fields entered -> submit to mydb

Example would be highly appreciated

thefisherman

I guess something like this could do it:

This form1-script you have, should call itself. At the top of this script, you should check the variables, since they are posted back to this same script:

<form name="register" method="post" action="<? echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">

So the script calls itself, and will continue to do so, until the form-variables are filled out correctly (that is, if you put in a check). If so, redirect to form2 by using header("location:http:111.111.111.11/form2.php"); or something else, i never include a form-script into an existing form-script, you have to exit the first one.

form2 then puts the variables into a database-table. Using a MySQL query should do that:

$putdata = "INSERT INTO <table_name> (field1,field2) VALUES ('$formfield1','$formfield')";
$doit = mysql_query($putdata);

Something like that...

thefisherman

You should read about this as well..

http://nl3.php.net/reserved.variables

thefisherman

zzz

This is very similar to what I was trying to do. My dilemma is that I'm trying to load register.php with form1 in it and if some fields are left empty, display a message above that form. I coudl loop through the form untill all fields aer filled and then go to another step, but how do I display the first time without a message and with it there after untill everything is filled out.

I was thinking of setting some variable via a hidden field that will post on the first submit. I think I might still do that. I just thouhgt there are better ways out there...

thefisherman

I think i understand what you mean..

So a user arrives on a page with this form, fills it out, forgets one field, clicks on submit, returns to the same form, only this time with an error message?

You just don't want this message to be displayed the first time someone enters the form?

Well, you can't check on the content of the vars, because presumably they're all empty the first time, which would directly display this error-message.

I had a similar problem and i did this:

if (!empty($vnaam) && !empty($anaam) && !empty($bnaam) && !empty($adres) && !empty($pcode) && !empty($plaats) && !empty($provin) && !empty($email) && !empty($country)) {
	if (isset($klik)) {
		if (ereg('^[-!#$%&\'*+\\./0-9=?A-Z^_`a-z{|}~]+'.'@'.'[-!#$%&\'*+\\/0-9=?A-Z^_`a-z{|}~]+\.'.
			'[-!#$%&\'*+\\./0-9=?A-Z^_`a-z{|}~]+$', $email)) {
			if ($NL=="NETHERLANDS") {
				header('Location: [url]http://[/url]$ip_adres/dothis.php');
			} else {
				header('Location: [url]http://[/url]$ipadres/dothat.php');
			}
		} else {
		$email="Incorrect e-mail!";
		}
	}
}

So basically what i did was check to see if the variables were set, the first time a user's gets to the page.

I did it this way, because i preload the vars if a user logs in, and session_register them, i then echo them back into a form, so the form's pre-populated.

But what it did was move on directly to my header("location:... if all the vars were set, so i added a check to see if the button named $klik was set, in other words, was clicked. If not, the form displays all the data and waits for a click.

When clicked, it calls itself again, checks for the content of the vars, checks for correct e-mail, and redirects.

If in this case, e-mail's not ok, it displays the form, with an error at the e-mail field.

Maybe this will help.

thefisherman

btw,

after the last '}', the form's displayed again with the PHP_SELF construction.

thefisherman

I think the 'header..' thing's not displaying correctly here..

i'll try again:

header('Location: [url]http://123.456.789.12/dothis.php[/url]');

thefisherman

Well,

that didn't work.

It's messing up the header thing,

it should be:

header('Location:
http://123.456.789.12/dothis.php');

Let's see what it does now.

(won't try again 🙂)

thefisherman