Hello
First sorry if there is to much code in this example.
I am new to working with multi page forms.
I have a search form that gets preloaded info from the database.
There are 3 scripts (a html page, a preload script and a process script).
There is a search button and a submit button.
The user can alter this information.
If the user alters the preloaded infomation and then does a search
I want the altered information to be displayed along with the search results.
Note: the same search page reloads with the search results.
1) Should I use the hidden input script to hold the altered information?
2) Where should I place the hidden input script, on the form or the preload
script?
Note:I tried putting the hidden input script in preload.php
so I can use an if to determine if their is hidden info to pass
or pass the info from the database. But I could could not get that to work
It would be great if you could please show your suggestion.Hidden input
if($_POST['fname']) $fname = $_POST['fname'];
echo ("input type = 'hidden' name='fname' value ='" .$fname ."'>\n");
Preload script
<?php
/** preload.php**/
$spec_q ="select fname, lname, service_date
from customer
where customer_num = $customer";
$result = mysqli_query ($mysqli, $spec_q);
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
{
list($fname, $lname, $service_date) = $row;
list($ser_year_c, $a_month_c, $c_day_c)= split("-",$service_date);
}
?>
Html page
<?php
/** search_form.php **/
include("preload.php");//preload first and last name and service date
?>
<html>
<form action="search_edprocess.php" method="post">
<table>
<tr>
<!---------------------customer name--------------------->
<td colspan="2" align="left"><font face = "arial" font size = "3px"><b>
<input type="text" name="first_name" size="15" maxlength="20" value ="<?php echo $lname; ?>"/>
<input type="text" name="last_name" size="15" maxlength="20" value ="<?php echo $fname; ?>"/>
echo "$lname, $first"; //patient last name and org_patient_id
</b></font></td>
<!-------------------date of service--------------------->
<td colspan="2">
<input type="text" name="service_yr" size="4" maxlength="5" value ="<?php echo $service_yr; ?>"/>
<!-------------------service date month dropdown---------------------->
<select name="service_month">
<?php
$month_name = get_a_month_name($a_month_n);
$month_code = get_a_month_code($a_month_c);
for($n = 1; $n<= 13; $n++)
{
$month=$month_name[$n];
$mcode=$month_code[$n];
echo "<option value = '$mcode'";
if ($mcode == " ")
{
echo "selected";
}
echo ">$month \n";
}
?>
</select>
<!-------------------service date day dropdown---------------------->
<select name="service_day">
<?php
$day_name = get_c_day_name($c_day_n);
$day_code = get_c_day_code($c_day_c);
for ($n = 1; $n<= 32; $n++)
{
$day = $day_name[$n];
$dcode = $day_code[$n];
echo "<option value = '$dcode'";
if ($dcode == " ")
{
echo "selected";
}
echo ">$day \n";
}
?>
</select>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<!---------------------search box ------------------->
Search for:
<input type="text" name="find" />
</td>
<td ><input type="hidden" name="searching" value="yes" />
<input type="submit" name="f_button" value="Search" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</html>
Process script
<?php
/**search_edprocess.php**/
$first_name = strip_tags(trim($_POST['first_name']));
$last_name = strip_tags(trim($_POST['last_name']));
//year of service
$service_yr = strip_tags(trim($_POST['service_yr']));
$service_yr = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9\s,.]+/","",$service_yr);
$find = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9\s,.]+/", " ", $find);
//month of service
$service_month = trim($_POST['service_month']);
//day of service
$service_day = trim($_POST['service_day']);
//year, month and day of service
$service_date = $service_yr."-".$service_month."-".$service_day;
/**** insert goes here****/
if(($_POST['f_button'])= "Submit")
/***find and submit bottons managed by switch**/
switch ($_POST['f_button'])
{
}
?>