Form Processing

Pwnious

I have searched the internet for this. I want to create a form processor with processes the form to a page which only certain people can access. I got everything down but the form processing. Does anyone have this code or can you lead me to the right direction?

Thanks.

Houdini

In the form that queries your users have an input for those that are authorised to fill in whatever criteria you need to screen them with, then when you get to the process php file use and if statement to send them to the page you wish them to go to or else send them somewhere else

<?PHP
if(somecondition){
//send the user somewhere like 
header("Location: yoursecretpage.php");
}
else{
header"Location: badboy.php");
}
?>

Pwnious

I got that part already finished. I just need the directions to process a form to put it on a webpage.

Houdini

OK but seeing your form along with just what it is you want to do with it when you process it would help. Are you going to enter the data into a database or or you going to send an email with the data to your self or what, it is hard to help you with no more than what you have supplied so far.

Pwnious

Sorry this might help. http://unitedsyndicate.net/join.html I want the data entered by a user to be posted on a webpage.

Houdini

OK how do you want it posted? In the form of a table or how. I did look at your soource, and what is your nvform.php doing right now? I would rename some of your input field although they are highly descriptive they tend to be long such as the value of Name would be accessed as $POST['Applicant\'s Name'] because the apostrophe must be escaped or php will think that is the end of the variale I would change that fields name to just name and access it as $POST['Name'].

Pwnious

OK, I think I got part of it so far. I can use

 <?php echo $_POST['insert name']; ?>.

That would dispay it right? That where I stopped, because I have no idea how to save this as a file text, html, or php.

Pwnious

Houdini wrote:
OK how do you want it posted? In the form of a table or how. I did look at your soource, and what is your nvform.php doing right now?

Sending me emails.

Houdini

As PHP and for mail you need to learn about the mail() function.

Pwnious

Maybe as text since I can make a script to read from a text and post it, I think.

Houdini

You are going to have to save the files as PHP because that is what is going to process the form $_POST variable, PHP will not parse a text file.

Pwnious

Houdini wrote:
As PHP and for mail you need to learn about the mail() function.

I already know the mail function since my current form processor sends me email. I want it to save the form and the user input to a text or better yet a webpage if its possible.

Pwnious

Houdini wrote:
You are going to have to save the files as PHP because that is what is going to process the form $_POST variable, PHP will not parse a text file.

Dang. :bemused: I am stuck now.

Houdini

You can generate HTML with PHP it is great at it, but to include the variable of the posted info the processing file will have to be PHP, you can generate a table and nicely format the output with table headers alternating row colors and all that with php.

Pwnious

Houdini wrote:
You can generate HTML with PHP

Yes, thank you. You have any sites/ tutorials that talk about this?

Houdini wrote:
.... but to include the variable of the posted info the processing file will have to be PHP, you can generate a table and nicely format the output with table headers alternating row colors and all that with php.

Cool, but I just want it plain. Once I get use to it, I will add detail.

Pwnious

Wait would I be able to save the html that php generates.

Houdini

You could learn a great deal from this online book Practical PHP (that is the forms section)
or you could just output to a webpage by something like the below.

<?php
echo "Your Name is".$_POST['Applicant\'s Name']."<br />";
echo "Your age is".$_POST['Age']."<br />";
echo "City: ".$_POST['City']."<br />";
echo"State: ".$_POST['State']."<br /.";
// and so on for all the fields in your form
?>

Pwnious

But now the problem is how will it display again. I am guessing I would have to use a database.

Nvm its in the online book.

Houdini

Yes is you are going to have a member based site a database is almost a necessity. Therefore the reason for the ppopularity of MySQL. So you need to have a databse with a members table and you would save all the variables from the data entered via the HTML form page into the various table.

Suppose you had a table named members and it has the columns of username, age, city,state,country, email,zipcode, and other data, it chould also have a member_id field which is usually auto incremented (meaning that each time a new orw of member data is added it assigns the next sequential number to that new member and ensures that there is a field that is unique..

Try going through the link to the book , it is easy to read and has practical examples that is easy to follow and actually do.

Pwnious

I did, but it had nothing about databases, except for one or twice. I have never messed with MYsql, so I have no clue how to do that.
eh... nvm I found it when I clicked content. :p