Form Troubles

[JackJack]

I want to create a form (sounds easy). When there is an error like

[code]<?
if($username){
echo "Please type a username";
}
?>
[/code]

But i want this to appear on the top of the signup page not the next page.

Please help

JJ

[alpine]

target your form to itself
set the value of the form elements to contain the respective variable

It's many ways of doing this, here is one example

[code]
$show_form = 1;

if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
$show_form = 0;
$name = $_POST['name'];

if(empty($_POST['name']))
{
  print "Name is missing";
  $show_form = 1;
}
else
{
  // prossess posted name
}
}

if($show_form == 1)
{
echo <<<__HTML_END

<form action="this.php" method="post">

<input type="text" name="name" value="$name" maxlenght="30" />

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send Form" />

</form>

__HTML_END;
}
[/code]