Re: Creating intelligent forms

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 06:54:25PM -0700, dan wrote: > Hello, all - > > I had some questions regarding the creation of "intelligent" forms - > forms that take data, and then parse it for errors, "real" data, etc etc. > > The first idea I had was to make a function to display the form. When > the form is submitted, the page would be called again (i.e. the form's > ACTION=itself), and then the POST or GET or SESSION variables will be > the arguments to the form. The idea is, when this happens, the form > will be able to check the data that was sent, verify it, etc etc. If > there are no problems with the data, then the user is directed to step 2 > of the form, or the second page, to enter in additional data. But how > should the redirection happen? > ... What you are suggesting sounds a lot like what has been done with PEAR's QuickForm and QuickForm_Controller. Look at pear.php.net and see what's already been done. Why re-invent the wheel? -- Jim Kaufman Linux Evangelist public key 0x6D802619, CISSP# 65668