[RESOLVED] Form doesn't go anywhere since switching to PHP5

tjbarr

<?php
session_start();

include("../dbconn2.php");
function sesreg($sesname)
{
if(!session_is_registered($sesname))
{
session_register($sesname);
}
}
function buildOption($name,$value,$match)
{
if($match == $value)
{
$option="<option value=\"".$value."\" selected=\"selected\">".$name."</option>";
echo $option;
}
else
{
$option="<option value=\"".$value."\">".$name."</option>";
echo $option;
}
}
sesreg("sortby");
sesreg("county");
sesreg("county2");
sesreg("orgfunction");
sesreg("visited");
sesreg("displayType");

if($SESSION['visited']==""){
$SESSION['visited'] = "n";
}
if($POST['submit'] == "")
$SESSION['submit'] = "n";
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<link rel=stylesheet href="style.css" type="text/css">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>

<body bgcolor="#006666">
<table width="100%" height="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1">
<tr bgcolor="#CCFFCC">
<td height="113" colspan="3" bgcolor="#CCFFCC"><img src="fedbanner.gif" width="587" height="101" align="left"><a href="map.html"><img src="map.gif" title="Search by County" alt="Search by County" width="96" height="103" border="0" align="right"></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="2" colspan="3">
<p><a class="menu" href="/fed_dir/index.php"> Home    </a><a class="menu" href="resources.htm">    Resources    </a><a class="menu" href="glossary.html">    Glossary
    </a><a class="menu" href="mission.htm">    About Us    </a><a class="menu"
target="_blank" href="http://www.clevelandfed.org/CommAffairs/FinancialLit/PDF/FinSurvey3.pdf">    Add Your Organization    </a><a class="menu" href="disclaimer.htm">    Disclaimer </a></p></td>
</tr>

<?php
if($SESSION['visited']=="n" || $SESSION['visited']=="")
{
?>

<form action= "<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>" method="POST">

<?php

$query3=<<<Q3
select * from tbl_fed_counties ORDER BY counties;
Q3;
$res_y = pg_query($conn,$query3);
$rows = pg_num_rows($res_y);
//echo $rows;
?>

<tr>
<td width="50%" rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<h2> Welcome to the Ohio Financial Education Directory for Northern and Central Ohio</h2>
<p align="justify" class="main"> The goal of this site is to help you find financial education programs throughout northern and central Ohio. The site also provides general information about financial literacy including a <a href="glossary.html">glossary of terms</a> and links to <a href="resources.htm">resources</a>.

If you have a specific concern, it may be best to
search by program type.  First select a program type and then select the
county you want to search.  If you are interested in finding out what
programs and services are available in your area – start by holding down the shift key and choosing every entry from the listbox under program
types and then choose a county.  For an alphabetical list of all
organizations in the directory - select "Display by Organization". <br>
</p>
</td>

<td width="50%" colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<h2>Directory by type of Program:</h2>
<h3 class="main"><strong>Select a type of program from the following list: </strong></h3>
</p>
  <h5 align="left" class="main"> Hold shift key for multiple choices:</h5>
  <h5 align="left" class="main"><a href="programs.htm" class="main ">Type of Program </a><br>
        <br>
        <select name="orgfunction[]" size="4" multiple>
          <?php

buildOption("Saving/Investing/Wealth Building","issaving");
buildOption("Credit/Budgeting","iscredit");
buildOption("Abusive Credit Practices/Predatory Lending Education","ispredatory");
buildOption("Financing a Major Purchase","isfinancing");

?>
</select>

<br>
<br>
Now select a county to see which organizations offer the program in
that area. <br>
<select name ="county2[]">
<?php
for($row=0;$row < $rows;$row++)
{
$resulty=pg_fetch_assoc($res_y);
buildOption($resulty['counties'],$resulty['county_id']);
}

?>
</select> </h5>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><span class="main">
<input name="Submit" type="submit" value="Display by Program">
</span>

<td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><span class="main">
  <input name="Submit" type="submit" value="Display by Organization">
</span>

</tr>
<tr align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<td height="2" colspan="3">
<div align="center">
<h6><span class="style2">©2004 The Northern and Central Ohio Partnership for Financial Education<br>
~ <a href="mailto:tammy@urban.csuohio.edu">Technical Questions?</a> ~ <a href="mailto:maria.j.thompson@clev.frb.org">Content Questions?</a> </span></h6>
</div></td>
</tr>

<?php
$SESSION['visited']= 'y';
}
else
{
$SESSION = $_POST;
header("Location: displayfed.php");
}
?>

</form>
</table>

</body>

</html>

Weedpacket

Read the Cautions and important notes on the [man]session_register[/man] page. Those might give you a few pointers.

tjbarr

Thanks, but I am still lost. I am pretty sure that our global variables were turned off in php4 as well as php5. Not sure how to use the $_SESSION. Is this what I need to change? In every instance of sesreg?

tjbarr

Is this snippet from the above code correct? Its not redirecting to this page when the submit button is clicked.

{
$SESSION = $POST;
header("Location: displayfed.php");
}
?>

tjbarr

I'm getting an error that says that I am missing variable 3 in buildOption(); Could it be that the select boxes are reading the choices?

Weedpacket

tjbarr wrote:
Not sure how to use the $_SESSION.

Read up on how to use PHP's [man]session[/man] handling.

Oh, so you are getting an error message.

function buildOption($name,$value,$match)

So the function expects to be passed three variables.

 buildOption("Saving/Investing/Wealth Building","issaving");

But you're only passing it two.

This code wouldn't have worked even in PHP 4.

tjbarr

Yes, thanks, I removed the third variable from that function, because it wasn't needed. Now I am not sure how to change the session_register call. I know it should be $_SESSION, but I try different things and get a blank page. Then when I think I have the session_regisiter correct - I am not redirecting to the second page displayfed.php - I just come back to this page after pressing submit.

tjbarr

Any Help on the proper syntax to register the Session would be greatly appreciated.

Weedpacket

tjbarr wrote:
Any Help on the proper syntax to register the Session would be greatly appreciated.

Excerpted from the [man]session_register[/man] page.

<?php
// Use of $_SESSION is preferred, as of PHP 4.1.0
$_SESSION["zim"] = "An invader from another planet.";
?>

tjbarr

O.k. I think I finally am getting it. I want to set two session variables equal to my select box arrays. What would the syntax be?

$_SESSION['county2']=????

Would it be the results from the resulty for loop in my code?

Now select a county to see which organizations offer the program in
that area. <br>
<select name ="county2[]">
<?php
for($row=0;$row < $rows;$row++)
{
$resulty=pg_fetch_assoc($res_y);
buildOption($resulty['counties'],$resulty['county_id']);
}

so maybe $_SESSION['county2']=$res2;?

tjbarr

<?php
$SESSION['visited']= 'y';
}
else
{
$SESSION = $POST;
header("Location: displayfed.php");
}
$SESSION['county2']=$POST[county2];
$SESSION['orgfunction']=$_POST[orgfunction];

Used this code to make the session equal to my checkbox. Thanks for all the help