Re: Passing values back to form

Thanks so much for your time. These are great tips, thanks again. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Stone" <kevin@helpelf.com> To: "Daniel J. Rychlik" <drychlik@tcsconsult.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 12:37 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Passing values back to form > Hi Daniel, > > My advice is to use php sessions. You can register both the filled and > empty values in the session after processing them. Then you can header() > redirect normally with no fuss and extract the values from the session file > on the form page. > > And here's a tip. Set up some CSS in a switch() statement to highlight the > form fields that are left blank. This makes for a nice user interface, > esspecially on larger forms. > > Read up on sessions.. > http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php > > HTH, > Kevin Stone > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Daniel J. Rychlik" <drychlik@tcsconsult.com> > To: <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 10:31 AM > Subject: [PHP] Passing values back to form > > > Im new to PHP coming from a background in perl devlopement. I have a form > that a user can fill out. > > On submit the values are iterated over a foreach to check for empty(). If > the an emtyp $key is found then it passes an error string to my error > function. > > I have 2 php files, one that is the Form called profile.php and one that > processes the values from the form, called profileprocess.php. There are > multiple functions in profileprocess.php. When the header function is > called in the profileprocess.php it takes you back to the profile.php with > empty values in the fields. I was wandering if their is a way, (which Im > sure their is) to pass back all the data that was correctly entered back to > the form, and then a nice little message that displays the error of the data > that needs to be checked by the user. I could do this a number of ways, but > the key is not writing code that you dont have to. Its just smarter > programming. > > Any ideas, or functions I could read on in the rtFM manual is greatly > appreciated. > > I appreciate you looking at this problem... > Thanks in advance, > Daniel > >