registration form submission

Forum|Forum|14 years ago
May 12, 2011
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i have a registration form, which checks for errors before the form is submitted. i was told then to use an if else statement to submit the form on the same page, but i would prefer to have the user go to a confirmation page instead. i have the form submitting to itself to check for errors. any ideas as to how i can do this?

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nickentin

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Should be simple enough.

<?php
     if(isset($_POST['submit'])) // when your submit button has name="submit"
     {
          // code for your confirmation page
     }
     else
     {
          // code for your page with the form
     }
?>

Nick

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future-architectAuthor

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here is how i modified the code:

<?php
     if(isset($_POST['register']) && empty($errors)) // when your submit button has name="submit"
     {
         echo "the form will have been submitted!";
     }
     else
     {
         echo "registration form displayed here...";
     }
?>

i want to make sure that the user did not leave any empty fields. but i get " the form will have been submitted" when i submit it with empty fields....

nickentin

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I would recommend condensing the code to something like this:

<?php
     if(isset($_POST['register']) && !empty($_POST['field1']) && !empty($_POST['field2']) ... ) // when your submit button has name="submit"
     {
         echo "the form will have been submitted!";
     }
     else
     {
         echo "registration form displayed here...";
     }
?>

Where the registration form code would look something like this:

<form method="post" action="self.php">
     <input type="text" name="field1" size="20"><?php if(isset($_POST['resubmit']) && empty($_POST['field1'])) echo "This field must be filled out."; ?>
     <input type="text" name="field2" size="20"><?php if(isset($_POST['resubmit']) && empty($_POST['field2'])) echo "This field must be filled out."; ?>
     ...
     <input type="hidden" name="resubmit">
     <input type="submit" name="register" value="Register">
</form>

Obviously, you would want to add in any formatting things (like tables, divs, etc), but this should work code-wise.

Nick

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