mainelydesign Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 I have a script i started in which I am trying to validate required fields before passing onto the next page/process. It is for what will become a multistep form. Here is the code: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <title>Required Form Fields</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> </head> <body> <?php # Script 4.1 - register.php /* This page creates a registration form * which is then validated using various functions. */ if (isset($_POST['submitted'])) { // Handle the form. // Store errors in an array: $errors = array(); // Check for non-empty name: if (!isset($_POST['name']) OR empty($_POST['name'])) { $errors[] = 'name'; } // Validate the email address using eregi(): if (!eregi('^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,4})$', $_POST['email'])) { $errors[] = 'email address'; } // Check for non-empty comments: if (!isset($_POST['comments']) OR empty($_POST['comments'])) { $errors[] = 'comments'; } if ( empty($errors)) { // Success! // Print a message and quit the script: /*echo '<p>You have successfully registered (but not really).</p></body></html>';*/ $action = "post_req_form.php"; exit(); } else { // Report the errors. echo '<p>Problems exist with the following field(s):<ul>'; foreach ($errors as $error) { echo "<li>$error</li>\n"; } echo '</ul></p>'; } } // End of $_POST['submitted'] IF. // Show the form. ?> <form action="<?php echo $action;?>" method="post"> <fieldset> <legend> Registration Form </legend> <p> <STRONG>Name:</STRONG> <input type="text" name="name" size="50" maxlength="50" value=""> </p> <p> <STRONG>E-Mail:</STRONG> <input type="text" name="email" size="50" maxlength="200"> </p> <p> <STRONG>Comments:</STRONG> <br/> <textarea name="comments" rows="5" cols="40"> </textarea> </p> <input type="hidden" name="submitted" value="true" /><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /> </fieldset> </form> </body> </head> The hang up is when I try to use and echo statement into the action field of the form. it takes me to file/$action rather then file/process_req_form.php and any help would be appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignace Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 When your page loads for the first time: <form action="<?php echo $action;?>" method="post"> Will output: <form action="" method="post"> The user fills out the form and submits, the output is now: <form action="post_req_form.php" method="post"> --- Change: <form action="<?php echo $action;?>" method="post"> To: <form action="" method="post"> And: $action = "post_req_form.php"; To: include('post_req_form.php'); Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mainelydesign Posted August 30, 2009 Author Share Posted August 30, 2009 Thanks for the feed back, it is moving along now the way i want it to. appreciate the feed back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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