[SOLVED] Form action: Post to self

[thesaleboat]

I have a question about this, how would you make a form stay filled out if, for example, they entered an email address in the wrong format, and still telling them that they need to re-enter their email address?

 

#php

$EmailAddress = trim($EmailAddress);

$_name = "/^[-!#$%&\'*+\\.\/0-9=?A-Z^_`{|}~]+";

$_host = "([-0-9A-Z]+\.)+";

$_tlds = "([0-9A-Z]){2,4}$/i";

 

$EmailAddress=$_POST['EmailAddress'];//reset EmailAddress

$from = "From: ".$EmailAddress;

 

if(preg_match($_name."@".$_host.$_tlds,$EmailAddress)){

  if(!empty($EmailAddress)){

      if (!empty($myusername) ) {

mail($to, $subject, $message, $from); //Send EmailAddress to them

echo "Thank you for your request ".$myusername.", your EmailAddress has been sent.";

echo '<meta content="3; URL=contacts.htm" http-equiv="Refresh" />';

      }//end filled out form check

  }//end EmailAddress exists check

  else {

      echo "Sorry, you did not fill in your email address.";

      echo '<meta content="3; URL=forgotpassword.php" http-equiv="Refresh" />';

  }

}//end proper email validation

else {

  echo "Sorry, your email address is not in the correct format.";

  echo '<meta content="3; URL=forgotpassword.php" http-equiv="Refresh" />';

}

 

I know it has to do with the forms action but i am not sure how you have a form post to itself and yet still have another php file which processes the infomation submited in the form?

Please help...

[tibberous]

Have the process file be an include.

[obsidian]

This is "sticky forms," and a Google search will give you a world of help, but the gist is this:

<?php
$email = isset($_POST['email']) ? htmlentities($_POST['email'], ENT_QUOTES) : '';
?>

<input type="text" name="email" value="<?php echo $email; ?>" />

 

Good luck!