Re: displaying form data

On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 08:23 AM, John P. Donaldson wrote:

I have a form processor that displays a confirmation screen showing the submitted form values to the user after they submit the form. This confirmation screen's contents are generated by the script itself. However, I'd like to be able to redirect the results to any pre-existing webpage. For example, if the form had a field named "Name," I'd like to have the value of that displayed in an webpage after they submit it. I tried doing this by including the field name $Name in the webpage, having the form processor read this webpage in using fread, then printing it out from the script, but the page renders without the value of $Name. How can I do this?

Sounds like you want to do a str_replace(). The template system I use works in this fashion -- I have a template HTML page, with certain keywords of the form {{{NAVIGATION}}}, {{{STYLESHEET}}}, {{{FOOTER}}}}, etc. I have a class that I wrote which simply takes the values of the variables in my page and swaps them in for the appropriate keyword -- thus, if my nav column was contained by a variable called $navigation_column, then my class would do something like: $template_page = "./includes/site_template.inc"; str_replace("{{{NAVIGATION}}}", $navigation_column, $template_page); This is oversimplified and wouldn't really work (you need to read the template page into a file handle, etc) but demonstrates the theory. Erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown pricee@hhbrown.com