Newbie: Validate Required Form Fields
| From: | Francis Chang | Date: | Thu, 02 Sep 2004 08:37:14 +0000 |
| Subject: | Newbie: Validate Required Form Fields | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Hello All,
I have a newbie question related to validating required Form fields.
Suppose we have a two-step user registration process with scripts
register1.php and register2.php, each page containing a set of required and
non-required fields. In register1.php, when user submits the form, it calls
register2.php as the action. In register2.php, I want to validate the Form
values submitted by the user in register1.php and if any of the required
fields is missing a value, I want to re-dispaly the register1.php page with
the appropriate error message.
What is the most appropriate way to handle this? Once the validation fails
in register2.php, can I call register1.php with parameters? If so, how? Or
do I use session variables to capture the error information? How do I
redirect to register1.php from within the code execution of register2.php?
Thanks in advance for your help.