RE: [PHP] Problems w/ goto

On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 10:50 -0600, Jay Blanchard wrote: > [snip] > Thank you with your excellent help in the past. Here is another > puzzler.... > > I am trying to write a program that can have two(2) independent forms > in one PHP file. When I run the code below [from PHP - A Beginner's > Guide], to which I have added a second form, it freezes. Without the > goto statements, it runs. When it does run, it displays both forms > on one Web screen. What I desire is for the first form to be > displayed, the data entered and then the second form displayed. In > an actual, not test program like this one, the data in the second > form would be dependent on the first form. > > What did I do wrong? > [/snip] > > You used GOTO. > > In this case I would recommend using something like jQuery to 'hide' one > form until the other form is complete. PHP has sent the output to the > browser already, both forms are there and display when you remove the > GOTO. > > GOTO should never be used like this. > > GOTO should never be used. > Wow... that brought me back to 1990... using basic and batch files... I honestly didn't even know that the GOTO was still in existence, especially within PHP. I had to show the people in my office, and we all got a chuckle from teh XKCD comic in the PHP documentation for GOTO http://ca2.php.net/goto Steve