RE: [PHP] bad form...
| From: | scott [gts] | Date: | Wed, 20 Jun 2001 15:19:04 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] bad form... | ||
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i agree.
for small forms with not-a-lot-of-data to be processed,
keeping it all together is generally a lot easier to
maintain and upgrade. (it also makes it easier for others
to understand your code - since the data input *and*
processing code is all in the same place)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Carter [mailto:subs@roundcorners.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 6:40 AM
> To: motorpsychkill
> Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP] bad form...
>
>
> generally. no its not.. IMHO its a good thing.... it can help make data
> validation easier, as in people can't "fake" variables by passing them in
> the URL to the processing script.
> It also helps keeps thing tidy... so providing that the processing isn't
> fantastically complex (in which case the complexity of the processing may
> make the physical file cumbersome)
>
> HTH,
> Tom
>
>
> > hello everyone, is it 'bad form' (no pun intended) to have a form point to
> > itself for processing, rather than forward the form variables to another
> > page? Anybody have any input on this? I try to have 1 page that is the
> > form and handles all the processing as well in order to keep the page
> count
> > on my site low and for easier editing, blah blah blah....
> >
> > thank you for you help!
> >
>