How Do I Get Two Different Pages To Load

Anon

I have a PHP script where a visitor fills out a form and is redirected to a page that prints the information they submitted to the database. I was having trouble getting the variables to show up on the second page so I just moved all the content within the same file.

<?
code
?>

<body>
more html code....

<?
code with form and table
?>

<?
html for second page
?>

</body>

I also have the form action going to just action="" now. When I tested it out it entered the data into the code for the second page but they were both appearing on one page instead of seperate. How can I split them up?

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

John

tomkleijkers

Strange site layout!

You just have to create 2 separated sites and set the action of the form to the second site:

site1.php <- form
site2.php <- display data

action="site2.php"

and pass all the variables (using $_POST).

good luck

Anon

Hi Tom,

I used to have it divided up into two pages but I couldn't get the variables to show up on the second page. I tried combining the pages because that is how I would do it if it was ASP.

Can you give me an example of what I need to add to the page with the form to get the variables to show up on the second page? I can get them to show up in the MySQL database, but just not on the second page.

John

Anon

It actually isn't hard at all since you're not going to read from the database.

Let's work with your first page, the form page. I'll call it page1.php.

< form action="page2.php" method="post" >
< input type="text" name="somename" >
...more input fields
< input type="submit" >
< /form >

Now, let's work with page2.php, the file that your script will call to display the information your users just entered:

Start your php opener

print "$somename";
..print "therestofyourforminputnames";

End your php script

The $somename should be the name you assigned to each of your input fields. Hope this helps. 😉

-ashley