need help displaying a message

[Reaper0167]

i had a post a few days ago about a register script and we finally got that all figured out.  but right now when the user doesn't fill in all three of the fields it directs them to another page with a message saying that the field was not filled in.  and well, it just doesn't look professional. what i am hoping we can do is get the message to appear next to the field that was not filled in. i was told that this can not be done using PHP and javascript must be used. is that true?  can anyone help me out here? thanks, Reaper.

 

Oh yeh, here is what i got so far

<?php

//connection to your database
include ("connection.php");

// define variables from register form
$username = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST["username"]);
$password = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST["password"]);
$email = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST["email"]);
$encrypted_password = md5($password);

// display message if field is empty
if (empty($username)) {
    echo "Please enter a username.";
} elseif (empty($password)) {
    echo "Please enter a password.";
} elseif (empty($email)) {
    echo "Please enter a valid email.";
} else {

    // take user to a page after registration
    header("location:thanks.php");
}

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {

    // inserting data into your database
    $sql = "INSERT INTO $tbl_name(username, password, email)VALUES('$username','$encrypted_password','$email')";

    $res = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());

    // closes your connection
    mysql_close();
}
?>

[Reaper0167]

oh yeh,, here is my form

<?php
<form id="register" name="register" method="post" action="register.php">
  <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="0">
    <tr>
      <td width="30%"><div align="right">
          <label for="label3">Username</label>
      </div></td>
      <td width="70%"><input name="username" type="text" id="label3" size="35" maxlength="20" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><div align="right">Password</div></td>
      <td><input name="password" type="password" id="label4" size="35" maxlength="20" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td height="22"><div align="right">
          <label for="label4"></label>
        Email</div></td>
      <td><input name="email" type="text" id="label5" size="35" maxlength="65" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td height="22"> </td>
      <td><label for="submit"></label>
          <input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Register" /></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
  </form>
?>

[dropfaith]

http://www.tizag.com/javascriptT/javascriptform.php pop up version

[Reaper0167]

thanks dropfaith.... i have been looking everywhere for this.

[Reaper0167]

acually, i'm not looking for a pop up window,,, just text that appears on the same page as my form.

[liad]

Using PHP & AJAX can get you to a nice real-time form validation code.

[Reaper0167]

thanks,,,, gotta love that google page,,,,lol,,,,lol