[RESOLVED] Help with upload form please!

dan2684

Hello all,

I am building the admin area of a band website. The band members can login and upload news, shows etc.

Shows.php consists of...

UPLOAD FORM (uploads a record to the gigs table)
UPCOMING GIGS (displays gigs table from the database)

The form action goes to 'upload_show.php' which verifys the date field has been entered correctly, uploads a record and then redirects back to 'shows.php' using header('location:...')
If the date field has been entered incorrectly, 'upload_shows.php' still redirects to 'shows.php' but it doesn't upload a record.

My question!
If the date is incorrect, I want to disply a note under the date field in the form to let the user know why it hasn't uploaded. Can anyone help me?

Pehape

you can simply use conditional to achieve what u want.
you better show us your script so we can help u more 🙂

dan2684

I don't have it on this computer (I'm at work - doh!)

I'll post the script when I get home.

I think I just need to pass a variable through the header and then get my form to display a message only if that variable is there... if that makes sense!!

I'll post the script later - haha!

daveyc

Dan,

What i've done before now is created an "Error Dictionary" file which contains the following:

<?php

$e1 = "Sorry, your password was invalid. Please try again";
$e2 = "There was a problem processing your request";

// etc etc.
?>

Then, in the top of all your pages you could include this file.

In your header() function you could do something like this:

header("Location: shows.php?e=2");

Then, insert a bit of script into your shows.php file to process the error code.


if($_GET['e']){

$num = "e".$_GET['err']; // Creates e2

$ref = ${$num}; // Creates $ref to equal "$e2";

echo $ref; // Echo's the error reference from the dictionary file

}

There is probably a cleaner and quicker way to do this, but its just an idea for you.

Let me know if this helps any.

Dave

dan2684

I've figured it out!

In case anyone's interested, here's what I've done:

I've put this script underneath the date field in 'shows.php':

if ($_GET['date'])
	{
	echo "<p class='error'>Incorrect date format</p>";
	}

And 'upload_show.php' is as follows:

//script above this checks if the date is correct and defines it as '$checkDate'

if ($checkDate==false)
	{
	header("Location: ../admin/shows.php?date=no");
	}
else
	{
//script here uploads the record to the database and redirects to 'shows.php'
	}

I'd just like to say that I'm very new to this forum stuff. I'm usually one to do everything I can to find an answer, but never actually ask the question myself. Judging by the swift responses I've had already, I'm extremelly impressed and relieved to know that help is only a post away!

Thanks guys 🙂

daveyc

Glad you've managed to get it sorted Dan.

You're right about this place, it's great! 🙂

Dave