Re: good practice

I don't understand what you are trying to do... If you need to verify whether the page has already been submitted to itself, you can test any of the form variables using isset(). For example: <? if(isset($name)) { $LoadedBefore = 1; } if(!$LoadedBefore) { echo "<form name='form1' action='$PHP_SELF'>"; echo "<input type='text' name='name'>"; echo "<input type='submit' name='submitdata' value='submit'>"; } ?> You can also pass the data back into the form: echo "<input type='text' name='$name'>"; // using $name variable as value Steven J. Walker Walker Effects www.walkereffects.com steve@walkereffects.com On Thursday, February 14, 2002, at 11:09 AM, James Taylor wrote:

Can someone recommend a better method for doing something like the following? All of my programs are written like this, but it's really poor form considering I'm not predeclaring my variables, etc. Only thing I can really think of is to assign a value in the form a number like 1 or something, then do a if $value == 1 {do something} but that seems kinda hokey. Here's an example of something I'd do: <HTML><BODY> <? if ($submitdata) {

      dosomething;
      exit;
    }

echo "<form name=\"form\" action=\"$PHP_SELF?\">\n"; echo " <input type=\"text\" name=\"data\">\n"; echo " <input type=\"submit\" name=\"submitdata\" value=\" Submit \">\n"; echo "</form>\n</body>\n</html>"; ?> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php