PHP Form Help

[laffin]

Let me say, Holy.....l

 

Thats a big script

a lot of redundancy, which could have been solved with an array of values

 

<?php
$formvars = array(
'Personal' => array(
	array('Name',true,'Name'),
	array('Date',true,'Date'),
	array('DOB',true,'DOB'),
	array('Age',true,'Age'),
	array('Weight',true,'Weight')
	),
'Current Medications' => array(
	array('CurrentMed1',false,'#1'),
	array('CurrentMed2',false,'#2'),
	array('CurrentMed3',false,'#3'),
	array('CurrentMed4',false,'#4'),
	array('CurrentMed5',false,'#5'),
	array('CurrentMed6',false,'#6'),
	array('CurrentMed7',false,'#7'),
	array('CurrentMed8',false,'#8'),
	array('CurrentMed9',false,'#9'),
	array('CurrentMed10',false,'#10'),
	array('CurrentMed11',false,'#11')
	),
'Medication Allergies' => array(
	array('MedicationAllergies1',false,'#1'),
	array('MedicationAllergies2',false,'#2'),
	array('MedicationAllergies3',false,'#3'),
	array('MedicationAllergies4',false,'#4')
	),
);

$fail=false;
foreach($formvars as $section=>$items)
{
	$list=array();
	foreach($items as $item)
	{
		if($item[1] && (!isset($_POST[$item[0]]) || empty($_POST[$item[0]]))
		{
			$fail=true;
			$error="'{$item[0]}' is required";
			break;
		}
		if(isset($_POST[$item[0]]) && !empty($_POST[$item[0]])
			$list[]="{$item[2]}: " .addslashes($_POST[$item[0]]);
	}
	if($fail==false) break;
	if(!empty($list))
	{
		$body.="{$section}:\n" . implode("\n\t",$list) . "\n\n";
	}
}
if($fail)
{
	die("Error: {$error}");
}
?>

 

This should put each var into its own section like

 

Personal:

  Name: Laffin

  Date:  4/30/09

 

and skip sections and items that are empty

 

although I would have suggested using arrays for some of them form vars, such as Current Medication.

But that ya can do later.

 

This was its pretty easy adding new variables to your form and processing is a breeze

 

the arrays are in format

 

'Section Name' => array(

  array('POST_VAR',Required,'Header Name (used in body of message)')

  )

 

Okay that nuff for me