[SOLVED] Form Help

herghost · September 22, 2009

Hi All,

First, apologies if this should be in the ajax section.

below is my registration form, everything works fine:

<?php
session_start();

include ('include/dbconnect.php');



$member_list = array('I Have a Problem', 'I Solve Problems');

// filter incoming values
$username = (isset($_POST['username'])) ? trim($_POST['username']) : '';
$password = (isset($_POST['password'])) ? $_POST['password'] : '';
$first_name = (isset($_POST['first_name'])) ? trim($_POST['first_name']) : '';
$last_name = (isset($_POST['last_name'])) ? trim($_POST['last_name']) : '';
$email = (isset($_POST['email'])) ? trim($_POST['email']) : '';
$city = (isset($_POST['city'])) ? trim($_POST['city']) : '';
$state = (isset($_POST['state'])) ? trim($_POST['state']) : '';
$member = (isset($_POST['member']) && is_array($_POST['member'])) ?
    $_POST['member'] : array();

if (isset($_POST['submit']) && $_POST['submit'] == 'Register') {

    $errors = array();

    // make sure manditory fields have been entered
    if (empty($username)) {
        $errors[] = 'Username cannot be blank.';
    }

    // check if username already is registered
    $query = 'SELECT username FROM users WHERE username = "' .
        $username . '"';
    $result = mysql_query($query, $conn) or die(mysql_error());
    if (mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) {
        $errors[] = 'Username ' . $username . ' is already registered.';
        $username = '';
    }
    mysql_free_result($result);

    if (empty($password)) {
        $errors[] = 'Password cannot be blank.';
    }
    if (empty($first_name)) {
        $errors[] = 'First name cannot be blank.';
    }
    if (empty($last_name)) {
        $errors[] = 'Last name cannot be blank.';
    }
    if (empty($email)) {
        $errors[] = 'Email address cannot be blank.';
    }

    if (count($errors) > 0) {
        echo '<p><strong style="color:#FF000;">Unable to process your ' . 
            'registration.</strong></p>';
        echo '<p>Please fix the following:</p>';
        echo '<ul>';
        foreach ($errors as $error) {
            echo '<li>' . $error . '</li>';
        }
        echo '</ul>';
    } else {
        // No errors so enter the information into the database.

        $query = 'INSERT INTO users 
                (user_id, username, password)
           VALUES 
               (NULL, "' . mysql_real_escape_string($username, $conn) . '", ' . 
                'PASSWORD("' . mysql_real_escape_string($password, $conn) . '"))';
        $result = mysql_query($query, $conn) or die(mysql_error());

        $user_id = mysql_insert_id($conn);

        $query = 'INSERT INTO users_info 
                (user_id, first_name, last_name, email, city, state, member)
           VALUES 
               (' . $user_id . ', ' .
                '"' . mysql_real_escape_string($first_name, $conn)  . '", ' .
                '"' . mysql_real_escape_string($last_name, $conn)  . '", ' .
                '"' . mysql_real_escape_string($email, $conn)  . '", ' .
                '"' . mysql_real_escape_string($city, $conn)  . '", ' .
                '"' . mysql_real_escape_string($state, $conn)  . '", ' .
                '"' . mysql_real_escape_string(join(', ', $member), $conn)  . '")';
        $result = mysql_query($query, $conn) or die(mysql_error());

        $_SESSION['logged'] = 1;
        $_SESSION['username'] = $username;

        header('Refresh: 2; URL=index.php');
?>
<html>
<head>
  <title>Register</title>
</head>
<body>
  <p><strong>Thank you <?php echo $username; ?> for registering!</strong></p>
  <p>Your registration is complete! You will be redirected shortly,
<a href="index.php">click here</a>.</p>
</body>
</html>
<?php
        die();
    }
}
?>
<html>
<head>
  <title>Register</title>
  <style type="text/css">
   td { vertical-align: top; }
  </style>
</head>
<body>
  <form action="register.php" method="post">
   <table>
    <tr>
     <td><label for="username">Username:</label></td>
     <td><input type="text" name="username" id="username" size="20"
       maxlength="20" value="<?php echo $username; ?>"/></td>
    </tr><tr>
     <td><label for="password">Password:</label></td>
     <td><input type="password" name="password" id="password" size="20"
       maxlength="20" value="<?php echo $password; ?>"/></td>
    </tr><tr>
     <td><label for="email">Email:</label></td>
     <td><input type="text" name="email" id="email" size="20" maxlength="50"
       value="<?php echo $email; ?>"/></td>
    </tr><tr>
     <td><label for="first_name">First name:</label></td>
     <td><input type="text" name="first_name" id="first_name" size="20"
       maxlength="20" value="<?php echo $first_name; ?>"/></td>
    </tr><tr>
     <td><label for="last_name">Last name:</label></td>
     <td><input type="text" name="last_name" id="last_name" size="20"
       maxlength="20" value="<?php echo $last_name; ?>"/></td>
    </tr><tr>
     <td><label for="city">City:</label></td>
     <td><input type="text" name="city" id="city" size="20" maxlength="20"
       value="<?php echo $city; ?>"/></td>
    </tr><tr>
     <td><label for="state">State:</label></td>
     <td><input type="text" name="state" id="state" size="4" maxlength="2"
       value="<?php echo $state; ?>"/></td>
    </tr><tr>
     <td><label for="member">Membership Type:</label></td>
     <td><select name="member[]" id="member" multiple="multiple">
<?php
foreach ($member_list as $members)
{
    if (in_array($members, $member)) {
        echo '<option value="' . $members . '" selected="selected">' . $members .
            '</option>';
    } else {
        echo '<option value="' . $members . '">' . $members . '</option>';
    } 
}
?>
      </select></td>
    </tr><tr>
     <td> </td>
     <td><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Register" class="button"/></td>
    </tr>
   </table>
  </form>
</body>
</html>

The bit I am interested in is this:

<html>
<head>
  <title>Register</title>
</head>
<body>
  <p><strong>Thank you <?php echo $username; ?> for registering!</strong></p>
  <p>Your registration is complete! You will be redirected shortly,
<a href="index.php">click here</a>.</p>
</body>
</html>

basically I use ajax to open a external page in a <div> so when this piece of code is displayed it displays on a new page and not in my nice css's template in the main div. How would I:

a, change this to appear in my div on my main page? or

b, have this appear in a popup box, which autocloses after 2 seconds and takes me back to index.php? or

c, redirect straight to to index.php and show a message that registration is complete?

What do you think would be the easiest solution? I am guessing c, but dont know how to go about it!

many thanks

ozestretch · September 22, 2009

I would opt for this:

css - Add to the header of your output to include the .css so your nice css site is represented throughout

refresh - add meta refresh to redirect after 2 seconds to the index page (or where ever)

<head>
  <title>Register</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="pretty_me_up.css" />
  <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=http://www.me.com/index.php">
</head>

herghost · September 22, 2009

Spot on mate, thanks

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