Calling two functions in a form

Doom87

Ok i'm a little stumped on this one. I have a form on my site which has a javascript function to check if everything is filled in. so that takes up the onsubmit feture for the form.

but i also want a php function to be called when the submit button is clicked. The php function would add all of the information to a database.

How can i call both functions when the submit button is clicked.

laserlight

Have the form submit to your PHP script that calls the PHP function. So, the Javascript function would be called when the submit button is clicked, and then the PHP function would be called after that.

Doom87

I'm not sure what exactly you mean. I have the form submit to another page which puts the information the user entered into a printable copy which they can bring to my office.

blackhorse

well, I am not sure what exactly you want, but i will give a try.

first, still use your javascript validation as you already did.

then, the form will be sent to the 2nd pgae, a php page put the data to your database. and you can still display the information for user to print out at that page too.

or use header("Location: 3rdpage.php") to redirect to the 3rd page for print out. (since you already have these inforamtion input to the database at the 2nd page) at that 3rd page, you can get the data from the database which you just input the data into for the print out.

laserlight

I'm not sure what exactly you mean. I have the form submit to another page which puts the information the user entered into a printable copy which they can bring to my office.

Then run your PHP function on that other page.

What does this PHP function do, anyway?

first, still use your javascript validation as you already did.

then, the form will be sent to the 2nd pgae, a php page put the data to your database. and you can still display the information for user to print out at that page too.

Yes, that is what I mean.

NogDog

Not sure I'm following all this, but I think all you need to do is have your javascript validation function be called by an onsubmit attribute in your form tag, then have it return true if all the validation is successful, at which point the form will be submitted to the form processing page you specify as the form's action attribute. If there are any validation errors, then have your JS function return false, instead, and the form will not be submitted.

PS: Don't forget that you still need to validate inputs in the server-side form processing script, as not all users may have JavaScript running, and malicious users will easily bypass your client-side validation.

Doom87

Ok i have it so that the form when it submits to the next page... it will add the information to the database. that works great. The problem is, is that once in enters the information to the database it doesn't display the page like it used to so the user can print it out.

It's like after the: return mysql_query($q,$conn); it just stops the page.