RE: [PHP] form submission error trapping

George, Good point. I actually like your idea a lot. I have never thought about using $SCRIPT_NAME. You also mentioned using "$PATH_INFO to implement elegant (and search-engine safe) urls..." below. Can you give me a couple of examples of how I might do this? I always hated the GET strings at the end of the url. Sometimes I redirect a user to the same page two times just to get rid of the trailing GET string. I know that's a bad way of doing it, but it was a temporary thing until I could find a way around it. I would really appreciate your help on this one. Thanks... Navid -----Original Message----- From: George Whiffen [mailto:george@whiffen.net] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 7:09 AM To: Navid Yar Subject: Re: [PHP] form submission error trapping Navid, $SCRIPT_NAME is sometimes a safer alternative than $PHP_SELF. The difference is that $PHP_SELF includes $PATH_INFO while $SCRIPT_NAME is just the name of the actual script running. http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.predefined.php This becomes particularly important if you use $PATH_INFO to implement elegant (and search-engine safe) urls e.g. /search/products/myproduct rather than /search.php?category=products&key=myproduct. George Navid Yar wrote: > Simply, to send a form to itself, you can use a special variable called > $PHP_SELF. Here's an example of how to use it: > > if ($somevalue) { > header("Location: $PHP_SELF"); > } else { > execute some other code... > } > > Here, if $somevalue holds true, it will call itself and reload the same > script/file. This code is not very useful at all, but it gets the point > across. If you wanted to pass GET variables to this, then you could > easily say: > > header("Location: $PHP_SELF?var=value&var2=value2&var3=value3"); > > ...and so on. You can also use this approach with Sessions if you wanted > to turn the values back over to the form page, assuming you had two > pages: one for the form, and one for form checking and entry into a > database. There are several ways to check forms, whether you want it on > one page or span it out to several pages. You just need to be creative > in what tools are avaiable to you. Here is an example of how you can > pass session values: > > header("Location: some_file.php?<?=SID?>"); > > Here, whatever variables you've registered in session_register() will be > passed to the php page you specify, in this case some_file.php. Hope > this helps. Have fun, and happy coding. :)