Redrawing a form

slicence

I'm new to PHP so this is probably simple.

I have some PHP script that draws a form, called "MyForm.php" for arguments sake. The action of the <form> of this script calls "Submit.php" to update data in the database.

What I want to do is 2 things:
1) Once the data has been updated redraw the form.
2) If user chooses to navigate to another record

Is there a PHP piece of code I can use to call "MyForm.php" again from another script?

I was thinking I'd have to turn "MyForm.php" into an include file for "Submit.php" and draw the form within a function. But then my question becomes how do I activate it the first time?

Buddha443556

Take a look at include or require control structures.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.require.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.include.php

and include_once and require_once while your at it 🙂

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.require-once.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.include-once.php

you would simply:

include 'MyForm.php';

to display the submitted data echo $POST or $GET in the appropreate places in MyForm.php.

sfullman

Usually on pages that have forms and results and options. I have the main page called page.php which has NO HTML only php coding. It's the "pgrogram" or switchboard for which pages to display. A good example:

if($POST){
//error checking
$formOK=check_errors($POST);
if($formOK==1){
//show the result page -- or you could show the form again
include('page_result.php');
}else{
//they made a mistake, show the form again, this error message will show
$errMessage='You messed up';
include('page_form.php');
}
}else{
//include the form -- so they can fill out
include('page_form.php');
}

this is a good approach for pages that get complex, do the heavy things in the main page, then have the HTML pages display results.

Sam

slicence

thank you both for replying so promptly.

I knew it was probably simple, but I'm learning PHP on the go whilst writing my uni project, and this is the first time I've used it!