Passing user to next page using sumbit button

[k994519]

HI guys

i have got a search query where once the user has entered the details required

i want to pass them to another page however as header is already set can i use another way of sending im to the next page?

thanks

[yelvington]

When you press a SUBMIT button, the details are sent to any page whose URL you specify in the ACTION parameter of the FORM tag in HTML.

[k994519]

HI this is my form action how would i change this so that it goes to page: view staff.php ?

<form action="<?=$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]?>" method="POST">

[yelvington]

<form action="something.php" method="POST">

or

<form action="http://some.other.server/something.php" method="POST">

Presumably something.php contains code to examine the posted values, query your database, and return appropriate data.

However ... you don't HAVE to send people to another page to get what you want. Simply use conditionals:

if($_POST['somevariable']){

// do your processing
// output your results

} else {

// output a form
// for the user to fill out
// and POST the results
// to $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']

}

[k994519]

Hi,
What I am doing is to search for staff_id from table staff

i would to put a search field to look for staff_id which will past that information on to the another form which will then display the all information from that row.. allowing updates to the fields.....

how would you recommend this?

here is some of my code so you can see what i am doing.....

if(isset($_POST["submit"]))
{
	// Info has been submitted, check it:
	// Check login, description and description2 are not empty:
	# field_validator($field_descr, $field_data, $field_type, $min_length="", $max_length="", $field_required=1) {
	field_validator("staff_id", $_POST["staff_id"], "alphanumeric", 4, 15);

field_validator("first_name", $_POST["first_name"], "string", 4, 35);

field_validator("last_name", $_POST["last_name"], "string", 3,35);

field_validator("faulty_id", $_POST["faulty_id"], "number", 3,7);

field_validator("date_started", $_POST["date_started"], "string", 8,12 );

field_validator("group_id", $_POST["group_id"], "number", 1,2);

field_validator("module_id", $_POST["module_id"], "number", 1,7);

field_validator("module_id2", $_POST["module_id2"], "number", 1,7);

field_validator("module_id3", $_POST["module_id3"], "number", 1,7);

// build query:
$query="SELECT staff_id FROM staff WHERE staff_id='".$_POST["staff_id"]."'";

// Run query:
$result=mysql_query($query, $link) or die("MySQL query $query failed.  Error if any: ".mysql_error());


	if( ($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)) )


	{

	}


	if(empty($messages)) 
		{


			global $link;

			$query1="update staff SET first_name='$first_name',last_name='$last_name', `faulty_id`='$faulty_id', `date_started`='$date_started', `group_id`='$group_id' WHERE staff_id='$staff_id'";

			$query2="update staff SET `module_id`='$module_id',`module_id2`='$module_id2', `module_id3`='$module_id3' WHERE staff_id='$staff_id'";



		$result=mysql_query($query1, $link) or die ("died on updating staff details1. error returned if any:" .mysql_error()); 
		$result=mysql_query($query2, $link) or die ("died on updating staff details2. error returned if any:" .mysql_error()); 	
			//print "staff details modified to system";

		}
	else 
		{
		displayErrors($messages);
		}	
}

$query = "select * from staff where staff_id='$staff_id'"; 
$result = mysql_query($query); 
//will work. then to put all the results in textboxes 
// Run query:
$result=mysql_query($query, $link) or die("MySQL query $query failed.  Error if anyzzzz: ".mysql_error());
$data = mysql_fetch_array($result); 

print "<center>";

print"<H3>Edit details of staff memeber <H3>";
print"<table>";?> 
<form action="http://localhost/view_staff.php" method="POST"> 

<?
print "<input type=\"text\" name=\"staff_id\" value=\"{$data[0]}\"><br />\n"; 
echo "</tr>";
echo "<input type=\"text\" name=\"first_name\" value=\"{$data[1]}\"><br />\n"; 

echo "<input type=\"text\" name=\"last_name\" value=\"{$data[2]}\"><br />\n"; 

echo "<input type=\"text\" name=\"faulty_id\" value=\"{$data[3]}\"><br />\n"; 

echo "<input type=\"text\" name=\"date_started\" value=\"{$data[4]}\"><br />\n"; 

echo "<input type=\"text\" name=\"group_id\" value=\"{$data[5]}\"><br />\n"; 

echo "<input type=\"text\" name=\"module_id\" value=\"{$data[6]}\"><br />\n"; 

echo "<input type=\"text\" name=\"module_id2\" value=\"{$data[7]}\"><br />\n"; 

echo "<input type=\"text\" name=\"module_id3\" value=\"{$data[8]}\"><br />\n"; ?>

<input name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit">
</TABLE>
</center>
</form>