Re: Problems w/ goto

On 17 December 2010 17:08, Steve Staples <sstaples@mnsi.net> wrote: > 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 > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > And have you seen all the sad faces ... : { on http://docs.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.goto.php#92763 Can't be good for them. -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY