Re: Re: header( 'refresh' ), form data, and IE

On 7/24/07, Daniel Brown <parasane@gmail.com> wrote:

On 7/23/07, Daniel Kasak <dkasak@nusconsulting.com.au> wrote: Thanks for the response Dan. Us Dans have to stick together :) On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 17:37 -0700, Dan wrote:

Then validate the field obviously! $description = ""; $categoryid = ""; if(isset($_POST['description'])) $description = "?description=$_POST['description']"; if(isset($_POST['categoryid'])) { if($description != "") $categoryid = "&"; else $categoryid = "?"; // if a description has been entered you'll need an & symbol otherwise a ? $category .= "categoryid=$_POST['categoryid']"; // append category to itself with the posted info }

Hmmmm. Yeah I thought it would come to that. I was hoping for a quick & nasty fix.

I didn't test this it's just off the top of my head, also you should sanitize the input before you do anythign with it really, but that's another issue. Also this is really something that you should be doing with ajax rather than having the page reloading, and passing variables back, etc. This is the EXACT purpose that Ajax as made for, validation of info. Check out XAJAX it's very simple to use but powerfull when you need it.

I will try to make some time for investigating ajax. I'm mostly developing in Perl, and doing nice GUI stuff ( ie no web stuff - this is a once-off maintenance thing ), so I'll a little out of my comfort zone ... Thanks again for your help. -- Daniel Kasak IT Developer NUS Consulting Group Level 5, 77 Pacific Highway North Sydney, NSW, Australia 2060 T: (+61) 2 9922-7676 / F: (+61) 2 9922 7989 email: dkasak@nusconsulting.com.au website: http://www.nusconsulting.com.au -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Hello, Dans! Dan K., is there any reason the validation can't reside within the same script as the form, then forward on success? A very simple example: <? if($_POST) { // Check to ensure that your variables are all correct, // then use header("Location: successful-target.php?var1=a&var2=b"); // And then, on forwarding, remember to exit; } ?> <FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>"> <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="var1" VALUE="<?=$_POST['var1'];?>"><BR /> <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="var2" VALUE="<?=$_POST['var2'];?>"><BR /> <INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="GO!"> </FORM> Since the user will start with a blank form, and the $_POST values won't already be set, the values in the form will be blank on the initial page load, but for unsuccessful attempts, they'll be populated with the correct data. ~ Dan^[3] -- Daniel P. Brown [office] (570-) 587-7080 Ext. 272 [mobile] (570-) 766-8107

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