[RESOLVED] How to resolve this redirect issue

forsooth

In this situation, the user looks a series of records in an HTML table, which have been pulled from a database table.

The user selects certain records, and clicks on a submit button. The user then is allowed to go to additional pages of records to select more records.

Every time the user select records on a page, they are stored in a "pre-select" db table and I want to ask the user "Are you satisfied with your selection of records?" and show the selected records from the "pre-select" table to the user.

To do this, I would have to send the user to another page with a clean display of selected records.

But, of course, I get a "headers already sent" error because of the html table that displayed the original records that the user selected from.

How do I begin to resolve this?

dagon

i don't see the need for header() html form action should be all you need. Well that's how i'm reading it anyway

forsooth

Thx for the reply, dagon.

Not sure I'm understanding what you mean. Could you expand a little...?

I know what a header() is, and what a html form is, but you've left me after that.🙂

Thanks again.

dagon

write out the flow from page to page.

forsooth

Hmmmm. "write out the flow from page to page..."

I apologize, but to a neophyte like me, that does not mean a lot. Is there any way to expand on this?

laserlight

I am not sure what exactly dagon means, but what you can do is to display the selected records separately on the same page as the new set of records, and thus the user can unselect them at the same time as he/she selects from the new set of records.

niroshan

Hi forsooth,

dagon;10950164 wrote:
write out the flow from page to page.

I think what dagon meant to say is,

Page 1

//list all the initial options
<body>
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="page2.php"> 
    <input type="checkbox" name="cmdOptions[]" id="cmdOptions1" value="option1" />option 1 <br/>
    <input type="checkbox" name="cmdOptions[]" id="cmdOptions2" value="option2" />option 2 <br/>
</form>
</body>

Page 2

//list all the other options options filtered from the initial options
<body>
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="page3.php"> 
    <input type="checkbox" name="cmdOptions[]" id="cmdOptions1" value="option1" />option 1 <br/>
    <input type="checkbox" name="cmdOptions[]" id="cmdOptions2" value="option2" />option 2 <br/>
</form>
</body>

Page 3

//Display final options with are you sure message
<body>
<p>Are you satisfied with your selection of records?</p>
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action=""> 
    option 1 <input type="hidden" name="options[]" id="options1" value="option1" />
    <br/>
    option 2 <input type="hidden" name="options[]" id="options2" value="option2" />
    <label>
      <input type="submit" name="aa" id="aa" value="Submit" />
    </label>
    <br/>
</form>
</body>

make sure you have back button for each page so user can travel back and forth if he change his mind.

By the way same can be achieved using a single page by putting if conditions for each step 🙂

regards,
niroshan

forsooth

OK, great, Laserlight and niroshan!!!!

I can go with this. Very helpful!

Thank you for your replies, and niroshan for all the code examples.