[SOLVED] 2 forms

[jalea148]

I have 2 forms [say they are called form1 and form2]; each has its own Post action. In both forms , there is a field called ‘name’. After the post of form1 I capture fields in the second page from the first page with statements like

$name=$_POST['name']; 

 

How do I get form2.name.value set to $name? I tried the following, but it treats $name as a literal string.

 

<input type="text" name="name" size="20" value=$name>

 

[corbin]

<?php echo '<input type="blah blah" blah blah value="'$name'" />

 

Or in HTML:

 

<input blah blah blah value="<?php echo $name; ?>" />

[pocobueno1388]

Are you in out of your PHP tags?

 

Try this:

<input type="text" name="name" size="20" value="<?php echo $name; ?>">

[jalea148]

:-\ The 2 replies work beautifully with my simple test form, but all I get is a null string in my real form. Here's the snippit at the top of my code:

body {

background-color: #670065;

}

 

<?php

$First = $_POST['custom First'];

$Last = $_POST['custom Last'];

$Address = $_POST['custom Address1'];

$City = $_POST['custom City'];

$State = $_POST['custom State'];

$Zip = $_POST['custom Zipcode'];

$Phone = $_POST['custom Phone'];

$Email = $_POST['from'];

?>

....................

 

then in the form

 

<tr><td colspan="2"><div align="right" class="style12"><p>First</p> </div></td>

<td> <p><input name="First" type="text" class="req" id="First" tabindex="15" size="50" value="<?php echo $First; ?>" />

              </p></td> </tr>

 

When the source is viewed, it shows value="".

 

 

[pocobueno1388]

Are you sure that the variable $First has a value?

[jalea148]

How do I test for this - I put in my name before the submit on the original form.

[jalea148]

I'm fairly sure the field is not null. Earlier I had a different action URL. The data came back from the ther site and was complete.

[pocobueno1388]

Change this:

$First = $_POST['custom First'];

 

To this:

$First = $_POST['First'];

[jalea148]

removing 'custom '  didn't help.

[pocobueno1388]

Can you post more code than that?

 

The inputs name is "First", not "Custom First". I'm not sure where your getting the "custom" from.

[jalea148]

Here is a snippit [the full code is about 2k lines]. The echo statements should the passed data is null here.

 

body {

background-color: #670065;

}

 

<?php

$First = $_POST['First'];

$Last = $_POST['Last'];

$Address = $_POST['Address1'];

$City = $_POST['City'];

$State = $_POST['State'];

$Zip = $_POST['Zipcode'];

$Phone = $_POST['Phone'];

$Email = $_POST['from'];

?>

<?php

 

echo $First.' bases<br>';

echo $Last.' stems<br>';

echo $Email.' tops<br>';

?>

 

Here's the result of the echos:  'bases<br> stems<br> tops<br>'

 

[pocobueno1388]

Can you post the form you are using to submit and get those values?

 

Also, are you using an if statement to check if the form was submitted?

[jalea148]

No, I don't have an If

 

Here's the submit form:

          <td valign="top"><form id="form_weber" name="form_weber" method="post" action="http://www.aweber.com/scripts/addlead.pl">

                        <p>

  <input type="hidden" name="meta_web_form_id" value="724199692">

  <input type="hidden" name="meta_split_id" value="">

  <input type="hidden" name="unit" value="quote_form">

  <input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="http://www.ehealthinsurancesource.com/Quote_FORM.php">

  <input type="hidden" name="meta_redirect_onlist" value="">

  <input type="hidden" name="meta_adtracking" value="">

  <input type="hidden" name="meta_message" value="1">

  <input type="hidden" name="meta_required" value="First,Last,Address1,City,State,Zipcode,Phone,from">

  <input type="hidden" name="meta_forward_vars" value="0">

                        </p>

                        <table width="346" border="2">

                          <tr>

                            <td width="150"><div align="left">First Name </div></td>

                            <td><label>

                              <input name="First" type="text" id="First" />

                            </label></td>

                          </tr>

                          <tr>

                            <td><div align="left">Last Name </div></td>

                            <td><label>

                              <input name="Last" type="text" id="Last" />

                            </label></td>

                          </tr>

                          <tr>

                            <td><div align="left">Address</div></td>

                            <td><input name="Address1" type="text" id="Address1" /></td>

                          </tr>

                          <tr>

                            <td><div align="left">City</div></td>

                            <td><input name="City" type="text" id="City" /></td>

                          </tr>

                          <tr>

                            <td><div align="left">State</div></td>

                            <td><input name="State" type="text" id="State" /></td>

                          </tr>

                          <tr>

                            <td><div align="left">Zip</div></td>

                            <td><input name="Zipcode" type="text" id="Zipcode" /></td>

                          </tr>

                          <tr>

                            <td><div align="left">Phone</div></td>

                            <td><input name="Phone" type="text" id="Phone" /></td>

                          </tr>

                          <tr>

                            <td><div align="left">Email</div></td>

                            <td><input type="text" name="from" value="" size="20"></td>

                          </tr><tr>

 

  </tr>

                        </table>

                        <p>

                          <label>

                          <input name="SubmitWeber" type="submit" id="SubmitWeber" value="Press for Quote" />

                          </label>

</p>

                      </form>

       

[pocobueno1388]

Okay, on the top of this page:

http://www.aweber.com/scripts/addlead.pl

 

Put the following code and see what you get.

 

<?php

if ($_POST['SubmitWeber']){

$first = $_POST['First'];
$last = $_POST['Last'];

echo '<b>First</b>: '.$first.'<br>';
echo '<b>Last</b>: '.$last.'<br>';
}

?>

 

Copy and paste what you see. Make sure you actually fill in those two fields with values.

 

[jalea148]

Nothing happens after I change the top of the submit for to

 

<?php

 

if ($_POST['SubmitWeber']){

 

$first = $_POST['First'];

$last = $_POST['Last'];

 

echo '<b>First</b>: '.$first.'<br>';

echo '<b>Last</b>: '.$last.'<br>';

}

 

?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

 

Do I need to change its name from xyz.htm to xyz.php?

[pocobueno1388]

Ah, I wasn't aware this wasn't a PHP file. So yes,  your going to have to change it to a .php extension.

 

And the PHP goes in between the body tags

 

 

[pocobueno1388]

Your wanting the form to be submitted to this URL, correct?

http://www.aweber.com/scripts/addlead.pl

 

That is where you have the form action pointing to. What page did you have your previous code on? The $_POST information is sent to the page where the form action is directed at.

[jalea148]

Thank you. So, do you recommend using Session Variables to pass this data to the Redirected form?

[pocobueno1388]

If you are redirecting them, then yes...you will have to store the information in sessions, otherwise the POST data would be lost in the redirection.

 

If they submit the form, and it takes them straight to the page where you set the form action, and they are not redirected from there...then sessions shouldn't be necessary. You can then just simply echo them to the screen.