PHP Forum

**JuliaNell** · 02-08-2010, 05:29 AM

Hi guys, nice meeting u all, i just started with PHP and believe me i dont have a clue at the moment therefore im so interested from learning from you guys.

Im a suppose to create a form with an input and on submit it displays a page with a new form that have many inputs as the value of the input of the first form.and now this is what i've tried so far so good for me but ooops i dnt knw if im on the right track!!!

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<form name="form" method="Post" onSubmit="return valForm()" action="exercise3.php">
<input type ="text" name="text1" value="value1">
<input type ="submit" name="submit1" value="submit">
<?php>
function $valForm()
{
//now wat comes here
}
?>
</body>
</html>

**xela1966** · 02-08-2010, 06:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JuliaNell

Hi guys, nice meeting u all, i just started with PHP and believe me i dont have a clue at the moment therefore im so interested from learning from you guys.

Im a suppose to create a form with an input and on submit it displays a page with a new form that have many inputs as the value of the input of the first form.and now this is what i've tried so far so good for me but ooops i dnt knw if im on the right track!!!

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<form name="form" method="Post" onSubmit="return valForm()" action="exercise3.php">
<input type ="text" name="text1" value="value1">
<input type ="submit" name="submit1" value="submit">
<?php>
function valForm()
{
//now wat comes here
}
?>
</body>
</html>

Change:
<form name="form" method="Post" onSubmit="return valForm(this)"

Add this to the <head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="validation.js"></script>

Creat a named validation.js file in the directorie where you gona add the next function:

/* <![CDATA[ */
function valForm(theForm){
if(theForm.text1.value == ''){
alert('Please enter your text');
theForm.text1.focus();
return false;
}
return true;
}
/* ]]> */

Any way if your search for what you need you will find!!!!

**tripy** · 02-08-2010, 07:04 AM

You need first to understand how PHP works.

As it is a server side language, it can only do something before displaying the form (fetch datas from a db, for example) or after the submission (process the form data, and then redirect the user to a result page).

Without knowing what you want to do, not much more to say.
Except that you should look for a couple of tutorials, and try to implement a basic form display/form process/result display workflow, to practice.

You can find a lot of good tutorials there:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...=Google+Search

and more specifically:
http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_forms.asp
http://www.tizag.com/phpT/forms.php

**tripy** · 02-08-2010, 07:06 AM

@xela If I am right, this being the PHP forum and the op stating

Quote:

i just started with PHP

, he probably wants a php solution.
Beside, he doesn't talk about validation at all.

**JuliaNell** · 02-08-2010, 07:36 AM

Oook, thanks, im actualy starting with coding now and im doing a lot of reseacrh now and then, i knw i'll get there, thnks for the reply. Well ja, i know the server side and the setting up a database server and things, bt coding oops i never tried but im trying now

**JuliaNell** · 02-08-2010, 08:17 AM

And guys its not funny ok, we are here to help each other, not everybody is here for playing around ok, thanks for the HELP , its highgly appreciated!!!!!!

**xela1966** · 10:57 AM

Hi Tripy,

She doesn't talk sbout validation, but validation is the only thing she can do on that form she presents, and is the best to add before a form be submit.
Any way, we can find a lot of form around without validation functions and it make the form very bad.
I'm not a deep php espert, when I need something I find it seaching for examples and I can deal with the basic of the PHP.
If you study php you can learn all the potencial of this lenguage, if not you can learn something with examples.
From what I know that's what she needs to do at this time, to see and copy examples and change things and meke it work as I did.
I think she will understand what connection she needs to do to make things work.
Any way thanks for your coment about this, I gona follow your post about php, because I like very mutch this lenguage and it looks that I can learn a lot with you

.

**adam89** · 02-09-2010, 08:57 AM

From what it sounds like you just want to return back to the same (or an identical) form with the values pre-populated. This is probably a lot easier than you think. As you're submitting the form via the "post" method (check your <form> tag) the values are stored within the $_POST array. If you don't know about arrays now's the time to learn.

From the $_POST array you can populate the "value" attribute of the <input>, using the input's name as the array key. For example your input is named "text1", so you can access the input's value with $_POST['text1']. All you need to do then is "echo" out the value.

..Sooo the code to populate the input with the submitted value would be:

Code:

<input type="text" name="text1" value="<?php echo $_POST['text1']; ?>" />

Hopefully this makes some sense?