calling pages...

[ardyandkari]

hello.

 

i was wondering how a php page calls pages to itself...

 

what i mean is this:

 

i have a contact form.  when i submit information to the form, i basically want a new page to be up, but the page should still be contact.php.

 

i have seen it done in shopping carts and stuff...now i want to figure it out to use on my site.

 

does it have something to do with includes or something?

 

thanks a lot.

ardy

[per1os]

www.php.net/include

www.php.net/require

[lewis987]

try this:

 

<?PHP

    if($_GET['act'] == 'next'){

          include 'xxxx.php'; // or use code...

    }

    else

    {

          include 'xxxx.php'; // or use code...

    }

?>

[king arthur]

You can get the same page to behave differently depending on if the form has already been submitted or not. When a form is submitted by POST method for example, there will be $_POST variables containing the values from the form fields. So you can check to see if these exist.

if(isset($_POST["your_form_field_name"]))
{

.....do something with the submitted form values...

}
else
{

....output the form as it has not yet been submitted...

}