Basic Form Process

NappyHead

Hi,

I have this simple form that provides options that will route the user to the page the user selects from the pull down menu.

<form method="POST" action="formprocess.php">
        <p align="left"><select size="1" name="selections">
        <option>MEP Engineering</option>
        <option>Civil Engineering</option>
        <option>Land Surveying</option>
        </select><br>
        <br>
        <input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit"></p>
      </form>

How do I set up the formprocess.php file to load the pages associated with the following selections?

MEP Engineering ===> MEP.htm
Civil Engineering ===> Civil.htm
Land Surveying ===> Survey.htm

Thanks,

thorpe

<?php
  select case ($_POST['selections']) {
    case "MEP Engineering":
      header("Location: MEP.htm");
      break;
    case "Civil Engineering":
      header("Location: Civil.htm");
      break;
    case "Land Surveying":
      header("Location Survey.htm");
      break;
    }
?>

NappyHead

thorpe wrote:

<?php
  select case ($_POST['selections']) {
    case "MEP Engineering":
      header("Location: MEP.htm");
      break;
    case "Civil Engineering":
      header("Location: Civil.htm");
      break;
    case "Land Surveying":
      header("Location Survey.htm");
      break;
    }
?>

Thank you.

NappyHead

select case ($_POST['selections']) {

I'm getting a parse error on that line.

thorpe

hehe... sorry. that comes from writting to many bash scripts lately. it should be...

switch case ($_POST['selections']) {

NappyHead

thorpe wrote:
hehe... sorry. that comes from writting to many bash scripts lately. it should be...
switch case ($_POST['selections']) {

Thanks, thorpe

I corrected a couple of typos in your script and got it to work:

Here's the working code:

<?php
  switch ($_POST['selections']) {
    case "MEP_Engineering":
      header("Location: MEP.htm");
      break;
    case "Civil_Engineering":
      header("Location: Civil.htm");
      break;
    case "Land_Surveying":
      header("Location: Survey.htm");
      break;
    }
?>

thorpe

yeah... sorry, im not thinking real straight today it seems.

badgoat

Typos are good, it teaches you to think through the gift you've just been given 😉