Re: Validating form input data

Hello,

on 04/30/2006 09:38 AM stathis gotsis said the following:
Hello everyone,

I am tying to come up with an elegant way to process some input data that
come from a form. When the user hits the 'Submit' button, i want the form to
appear again with the already entered valid data filled in and prompt the
user to re-enter the non-valid data. If all data is valid, i will forward to
an other .php page which enters the data into a database.

I tried to do this in the following way: the form always hits back on
itself, but when all data is valid i use the PHP:header() to redirect to the
data.php that performs the database insertion. The problem is that the data
is not available to data.php in the $_POST variable. How can i overcome this
problem? Any other subtle way to handle the whole thing? Any help
appreciated.

Nothing stops you from presenting the form and process it with the same
script.

You may want to take a look at this forms generation and validation
class that shows you how to do that. Additionally it generates your
forms with Javascript to validate the form also on the client site,
avoiding unnecessary server round trips just to tell the user the form
has invalid fields.

http://www.phpclasses.org/formsgeneration


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