[RESOLVED] im nearly there, form prt2

[lozza1978]

Hi There,

I am using the following code to validate certain fields on a form,
Currently, the form is posting to itself, and then the script below is run, but once these checks are performed I need to send the $_POST arrays to another page,

I dont know how to do this, can anyone help, or point me in the right direction,

<?
if (isset($_POST['Submit'])) { 

$error_msg=''; 
      if(trim($_POST['name'])=='' || strlen(trim($_POST['name'])) < 3) { 
$error_msg.="<b>ERROR-1:</b> First name should contain between 3 and 12 alpha charecters<br>Please correct this and re-submit the form<br><br>"; 
		 } 
if(trim($_POST['sname'])=='' || strlen(trim($_POST['sname'])) < 3) { 
$error_msg.="<b>ERROR-2:</b> Last name should contain between 3 and 12 alpha charecters<br>Please correct this and re-submit the form<br><br>"; 
		 } 
          // check if email address have been included / if not lsts error
if(trim($_POST['email'])=='') { 
           $error_msg.="<b>ERROR-3:</b> Please enter an email<br>Email address are allways lower case.<br>Please correct this and re-submit the form<br><br>"; 
		 } else { 

	// check if email is a valid address in this format [e-mail]
if(!ereg("[0-9a-z]([-_.]?[0-9a-z])*@[0-9a-z]([-.]?[0-9a-z])*\\.[a-z]", $_POST['email'])) $error_msg.="<b>ERROR-4:</b> Please enter a valid email address<br>Email address should be in [e-mail] OR any valid format<br>Please correct this and re-submit the form<br><br>"; 
	   	}

   // Now check that all the characters are digits
 if (!ereg('^[0-9]{10,20}$',$_POST['phonen'])) {
$error_msg.="<b>ERROR-5:</b> Telephone numbers contain 10 / 20 digits<br>Please enter your phone number with Country & OR STD code<br>Please correct this and re-submit the form<br><br>"; 
 		}
if(empty($_POST['topic'])){
			$error_msg.="<b>ERROR-6:</b> Please enter a topic and submit the form";
		} 

}
?>

I want the form to validate inside itself, then once passed to send the post vars/arrays to another page

many thanks for reading

lozza

[LoganK]

Once it's validated, is there another form which the user fills out to go the next page? If so, then a loop through the validated values, setting each as a hidden field, will work. If not, then send the data through POST by PHP using cURL and sockets and stuff like that which confuses me 😃 or put them in a session and access them in the next page.

[lozza1978]

Hi There,

The user fills out the form, hits submit, the form validates itself, Then i would like to take the post arrays to the next page, to say something along the lines of

Thank you $_POST['name'] your details have been added to our database and we will contact you shortly,

Is it possible to add another form, so that when the 1st form gets validated the POST arrays get put into the 2nd form and submit to the following page?,

this way seems very messey to me, surely there must be a better way to do it,

thanks again

lozza

[laserlight]

Is it possible to add another form, so that when the 1st form gets validated the POST arrays get put into the 2nd form and submit to the following page?

Why not combine the validation and processing to single page?

[lozza1978]

laserlight wrote:

Why not combine the validation and processing to single page?

I was getting myself into a right mess, with 1 page, so I built it round 2 pages (easier to see whats going on)
and now have coded it all into one page, and its all working 🙂 just the html to clean up,

Thanks so much for all the coments and help, they have been much appreciated

lozza

[LoganK]

Allright then. Congratulations! Remember to post here - we're very helpful!