PHP :: Form Fields Not Submitted In Php. Any Gurus?

How Do I Check If A Form Is Being Submitted?
I have a PHP code that checks if a form button has been clicked:

if (isset($save)){...
<input type="submit" name="save" value="Check the results...">

Upon clicking the button a PHP code runs that saves stuff to a MySQL db. The thing I'm doing is that I'm submitting the form with this code in a java script:

aForm.submit();

This javascript is triggered by other user input and I do Not want to force the user to press any additional buttons to submit the form. How can I make the PHP code run when submitting a form instead of a button? = I want to submit the form but After I've run my PHP code and saved my data to the db.

Check If Form Is Submitted
I am using PHP to generate a form that submits to $PHP_SELF. The first time the script executes is should only create a data entry form based upon a MySQL "DESCRIBE table" statement. When submitted, the script will insert the form's data into a table using an INSERT INTO statement.

I need a way to determine if the script should DESCRIBE and generate the form or instead INSERT the submitted data into a table. In the past I used a hidden field with name=submitted value=true and checked for that to determine if script should DESCRIBE or INSERT.

However in this case I want to simply get the name/values from the HTTP header and INSERT them into the table. Form element names correspond to the desired table field names. Having the hidden field requires me to filter out the unwanted data. (I guess I need to submit the table name inorder to know which table to insert into, so there is atleast one required hidden field that is not part of the actual data to insert.)

Submitted Form Just Shows Itself
I have a form i will use to register new people and when I click the
submit button, the form just shows itself. It is supposed to show a
message showing field errors if you leave fields blank etc. so
submitting the empty form should show error message in red , then show
form, but all it does is show form. I checked the variable to make
shore they ere ok and they are fine. i believe it is a logical error
with my if else.... I eved modularized everything by using functions
and the same results.

if any one sees the logical error, let me know. Here the code:

<?php

function showmessage() {
// Check to make sure they entered a valid email address.
if (eregi("^([[:alnum:]]|_|.|-)+@([[:alnum:]]|.|-)+(.)([a-z]{2,4})$",
$HTTP_POST_VARS['emailfield'])) {
$d = TRUE;
} else {
$d = FALSE;
$message1[] = "The email address you entered is not valid.";
}
return;
}

function checkfields(){

$year = $HTTP_POST_VARS['yearfield'];
$month = $HTTP_POST_VARS['monthfield'];
$day = $HTTP_POST_VARS['dayfield'];
$dobfield = $year.$month.$day;
// Check the last name.
if (eregi ("^([[:alpha:]]|-|')+$", $HTTP_POST_VARS['usernamefield']))
{
$a = TRUE;
} else {
$a = FALSE;
$message1[] = "Please enter a correct username. I.e; EricDerouen
that consists only of letters.";
}

// Check the first name.
if (eregi ("^([[:alpha:]]|-|')+$",
$HTTP_POST_VARS['firstnamefield'])) {
$b = TRUE;
} else {
$b = FALSE;
$message1[] = "Please enter a First Name that consists only of
letters.";
}

Using Isset To Run Some Php When Form Is Submitted.
I am trying to modify the login script one of the moderators here pointed me to. It looks like it is working for me but I need it to only run after someone submits the form. I tried adding isset, but when I did it just post back and does perform the query. Code:

User Submitted Form Into Array
Ok, here is my dilema. I have a very long form, and I want to take the submitted info and place it into an array for later use. The thing is, since I form is so long, I do not want to have to hard code all the textbox names and values into the script.

Any ideas on how to process the form in a loop until done? I understand how loops work, but how would I process the form since the textbox names are all different?

Editing Submitted Form Using Variables
I'm working an e-mail form for my web page. I want people to be able to fill out information and when the click submit, get a page that basically says, "Here is the information, is it correct?"
Then they can click either, "Yes" (and it sumbits), or "No", and it goes to another page set up like the form filled out the first time, and grabs the variables and places them in the "values". This is the code I have so far: Code:

Why Php Doesn't Transfer Variable Submitted By Web Form?
I had previously installed php-4.3.9 and apache-2.0.49 on my solaris9
server and written a php script for user login, it ran well until
today...

today for some reasons I upgraded php to php-5.1.2, complied as
apache's DSO module, and I found the script couldn't work when being
accessed by IE. I didn't know why...It seemed php script hadn't
transfered variables submmitted by web form to itself...now the
following is my script:

<?php
if ($queryflag == 1) {
$ybn="admin";
$ybp="111";
$ybusername=$_POST["username"];
$ybuserpwd=$_POST["password"];
if ($ybusername==$ybn AND $ybuserpwd==$ybp){
session_start();
$_SESSION["admin"]=true;
header("location: testtest.php");
} else {
echo <<<EOM
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=gb2312">
<title>login</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>

Insert Processes Before Form Is Submitted
I am trying to stop using Macromedia as my crutch and you guys have been a big help. I need some assistance with submitting a form. I have a form on my page and need to do an insert. I have the action posting it back to the same page I am on versus sending it to an insert page. The problem I am having is it trys to do the insert as soon as I pull up the page instead of waiting till the form is submitted. I believe I need to do something with isset, but can't really find a tutorial that goes over it really well. Code:

Checking If A User Has Submitted A Form
I have a form that validates itself by putting "<?php $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ?>" as the form's action.

I have now written some simple validation, shown below.
$name = $_POST['name'];
if (!isset($name) || empty($name)) {
echo "Error, please fill in the name textbox";
}

The problem is, this code shows up, even if the user has never submitted the form.

How do I only show the error AFTER the user has pressed my submit button?

Include Date In Email From Submitted Form
I have a done a callback request form in PHP and I want to include the date in the email that the form sends...does any one know how to do it, or even better give me the source code.

How To Calculate Total Submitted Size Of HTML Form
I have a HTML form named "form1" and same as for form id if form as three element, elements can be Input->"text", File, Textarea, some buttons Now when i submit this form usinf submit button, I want to calculate total size of this form submitted using Javascript or any other way. How can i calculate total size of form in bytes / KB / MB.

Creating A Form That Once Submitted Displays A Tabled Output
I have a form that I am trying to create that ideally will present a desired output based on the selections of the form.

The following is an example of the dataset I am pulling from:

I am trying to:

1. Have a drop-down selectable to select a start date.

2. Have another drop-down selectable to select a stop date.

3. Have radio buttons to select which datas I wish to view for the range set by steps 1 and 2. Example is nodes_available, nodes busy, one, both, or all.

4. Have the ability to select the interval of minute, hour, or day.

Once the form variables are selected, then it is submitted with the desired results displayed in a table on another page. Ideally this output will eventually find its output displayed in some type of graph form, but at the moment I am trying to atleast achieve the desired outcome.

Generate An Html Form, To Be Submitted For Insertion To A 3rd Table
1. display a form consisting of radio buttons and check boxes. multiple selection of check boxes per radio button basically.

I got this part done, it displays the data in the form which is being pulled from two separate tables.

2. Insert for each check box a record into a third table of the check box and radio button.

this is what i have thus far and I'm not really sure why it's not working from what i can see step by step it should be inserting the records, these arrays are the most terrible thing i can think of having to do. Code:

Send Data Submitted By User In Form To Address Bar
it's pretty self-explanatory but when I have a form in my PHP scripting I'm trying to figure out a way of sending what the user enters to the end of the address bar in the new page that opens when the form is submitted:

echo '<form action="/search.php?result=$result" method="post">';

echo   '<a href="/">Home[/url] | ';
echo   '<a href="/whatsnew.php?startrow=0">What's New[/url] | ';
echo   '<a href="/newsletter.php">Newsletter[/url] | ';

echo 'Search: <input type="text" name="search">';
echo '<input type="submit" value="Go!">';

echo '</form>';

I need $result to equal what the user enters to use the GET_$result code on the search.php page.

For Gurus: Bug In Php? Recursive Foreach Dont Work Properly.
Looks like there is a bug in php. If I have function which uses
foreach to run trough array recursively, the lop-level foreach
interupted by lover-level foreach'es. If I use simply 'for' everything
is ok. Example:

I have an array of 3 objects connected hierarchically by their
variables id and parentId, here is the hierarchy:
id=1 parentId=0
....id=2 parentId=1
....id=3 parentId=1

I start digging from item with id=1 down to its chils and top-level
foreach NEVER REACH ELEMENT 3!!! Top-level foreach just stops.

<?php
function prn($s){
echo($s.'<br>');
}

$nodes = array();
$nodes[0] = new node(1, 0);
$nodes[1] = new node(2, 1);
$nodes[2] = new node(3, 1);
$nodes[3] = new node(4, 0);

classnode{
var $id;
var $parentId;

function node($id, $parentId){
$this->id = $id;
$this->parentId = $parentId;
}

function dig($level){
global $nodes;

$l = ''
for($i=0; $i<$level; $i++) $l.='..'
prn($l.'looking for childs of '.$this->id.' {');

foreach($nodes as $n){
prn($l.$n->id.' (parent '.$n->parentId.')');
if($n->parentId == $this->id){
$n->dig($level+1);
}
}

prn($l.'}');
}

}

$nodes[0]->dig(0);

?>

The output should look like this:

looking for childs of 1 {
1 (parent 0)
2 (parent 1)
...looking for childs of 2 {
...1 (parent 0)
...2 (parent 1)
...3 (parent 1)
...}
3 (parent 1)
...looking for childs of 3 {
...1 (parent 0)
...2 (parent 1)
...3 (parent 1)
...}
}

But it looks like this:

looking for childs of 1 {
1 (parent 0)
2 (parent 1)
...looking for childs of 2 {
...1 (parent 0)
...2 (parent 1)
...3 (parent 1)
...}
}

Dynamic Form Fields/multiple Page Form?
It is for a friends out of print booksite, where visitors can request multiple books to be searched by adding one at a time to a cart (javascript), then once all added they submit to another form where they enter their personal details and all is sent through. The problem is at the moment they cannot change whats in the cart without refreshing the browser window and losing everything.

1) present for asking how many books they want to search for
2) display multiple rows of the same input fields depending on how many books they say they want to have searched for?i.e

title|author|publisher|etc
title|author|publisher|etc
title|author|publisher|etc

3) when these are submitted they could see these above the next part of the form where they enter their details with the option to go back and delete/amend.
4) send all the info to my colleague.

if so has anyone seen a similar script that I could take a look @ to see if I can hack it to suit my needs?

Page Expired After Going Back From Del. Pageto Form Page Where Comment Is Submitted..
i've made a submit comment form with php and mysql, the form has an action to itself with a hidden var like this: input type=hidden action=add

When i delete a comment on the page i go to a page called delete.php3 and there is a link with a javaline which goes -1 back in my history..

When ive added a comment, the comments page contains action=add and when i delete a comment, i want to click on the link to go back to the comment page, but then, it doesnt work and it says:

Page has expired.

I wondered how to deal with this kind of problems........

Need Email Address From Submitted Html Email Form
I have an html email that contains a form with questions for the user to fill out. Without asking the user to re-input there email address into the form, is there a way for me to grab the email address its coming from when the user submits the form to the php processing program. I need a way to match the questions to the user when they submit the form.

Process Form Fields
Hi, I need to process a generic html-form. Is there any way to access to the form elemts as an array?

Trying To Duplicate Form Fields.
What I would like is to when someone writes in one field. The same text is written in a seperate field. But without sending anything. all internally. Anyone have a clue?

Form Validation- One Of Three Fields
I've been looking for a PHP script to accept a search form for either the name or town or postcode fields to search a MySQL db. I would like the user to put in any one search field but not none.

Also I am trying to figure out a select statment to select one item on a drop down form list or any item on the list eg the list would be dog, cat, horse, fish or all, the column would be pets. The search would pull out any single pet or all pets.

Fill In Form Fields On PDF
Looking for classes or libraries which allow you to fill in form
fields on a PDF document.

Populate In To The Form Fields
i worked on some programs that gets the datas from the user and insert them in to the database.now i want to retrieve the data from the database
and i want them to populate in to the form fields.

Parse PDF Form Fields In PHP
I am trying to find out if it is possible to open a pdf file from
within PHP, and parse its contents in order to extract all form
fieldnames that might have been previously setup within the pdf
itself.

I want to find this out so that I can then generate a HTML form with
all required questions, which when submitted, will generate a fdf /
xfdf file, using the techniques from the following tutorial
http://koivi.com/fill-pdf-form-fields/tutorial.php

Posting Form Fields
I have a form like the one below. Upon submit I would like to self post
to the same page but have the original $_POST data( which was posted to
this page from another ) also be sent along with the new form field
data. How can I achieve that? Thanks.

<form name="form1" method="post" action="<?php echo
$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?".$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']; ?>">
<table>
<tr>
<th><input type="text" name="fields[]"</th>
....
<th><input type="text" name="fields[]"</th>
<th><input type="submit" value="Add" name="add"</th>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

Empty Form Fields
I have a simple HTML form, which when submitted I want to check whether he fields have been completed. If everything is complete, I want to process the form....No problem with this bit.

If any of the fields are not complete however, I want to indicate this......for example by placing a * character next to the field which is empty i.e.

echo "<TR><TD>Username</TD><TD><INPUT TYPE=text NAME=username></TD><TD>*</TD></TR>";

I am guessing that the best way to do this is submit the page to its self, and check for any empty fields, then display the form again. What would be an efficient way of doing this, given that I have to check about 20 fields?

Form Fields And Verification.
suggestions to with keeping data entered into form fields in place after verification fails and the user is requested to re-enter some missing data. Is there a smooth way to do this with PHP and forms, or would it be best to try and use javascript for a form, so when the "back" button is hit the data is remembered?

Hidden Form Fields
i want to output the value of the "hidden form field". When I hit submit, the the value is put to the hidden form field. when I hit the submitbutton a second time the value of the hidden field is dispalyed. Is there a way to display the value on the first submit
Code:

Getting HTML Form Fields
I'm trying to figure out a way to get the values of input fields from a HTML form, and place them in a database. For example if a html form had 3 text boxes one for "name" one for "email" and one for "url" how would I go about getting those values? I also need it to grab the values from hidden form fields, is there such a function or class?

I know it will prob have to entail some regular expressions, but as I'm not too familiar with regxep could someone take a stab at it? Also any good tutorials on regexep would be nice too.

Validating Form Fields
I would like to create a php script that can validate all of the required elements in the form. I'm not sure the best way to do this, but I know it's a smart idea to have good validation in place before there is a problem.

There are a few pages involved here, and the ACTION tag in the form is sending it to an email delivery script, so it needs to be as error free as possible. In this case would it be smarter to create inlined code that will validate the fields based on an if/else statement before the form is posted?

If someone could give me a sample code of what a simple form field validation would look like that would be great. PHP Code:

Add Fields To A Form Dynamically On The Fly
I'm looking to create a form the allows the user to input a simple list item by item. However I am not sure how to implement a form that allows the user to add as many fields as the need on the fly.

Dynamic Form Fields
I want to have it setup so when the user clicks this link a value is sent via get and that value is put through a for loop to generate an additional form field: Code:

Want To Autopopulate Form Fields From Database
I have a working form that submits info into a database.

I want to take a few fields about the poster (name, email) and hide them and have them filled out from my user table, which is the same database but different table then where the form data is being sumbitted.

I must be searching for thr wrong thing cause i am not finding any information on it.

Form Fields Not Carrying Data
I'm having a problem with the following form; Code:

POST Blanks Out Form Fields
I have a form that POSTs to itself and validates data entered into the form.
If all is well the form performs a header location command to move to the
next input form in the series. If the user has entered an error within the
form the user is NOT redirected to the next page and error messages are
displayed indicating the fields that are in error. So far so good. The only
problem is that all the input fields are now blanked out after the post.
These fields must display all the values that were inputted before the post
was executed.

I have tried the following to no avail......

reassigning values like this after the post => $zip=$_POST['zip'];

reassigning values like this after the post =>
$fullname=$_SESSION['fullname'];

Utilizing this Meta Tag => <META HTTP-EQUIV="CACHE-CONTROL" CONTENT="CACHE">

How can I keep the data that was entered into the form fields before the
post was executed?

Hey Need Help With PHPMailer And Checkbox Form Fields
I need to be able to send an attachment for each checkbox the user
checks. like this: <input type="checkbox" name="file" value="bob.amr">
I need to have multiple checkboxes! and if they are checked the user
gets an attachment for each? I am using the popular PHPMailer!

How Could I Get The Form Fields Filled From A Database?
One idea I have is to do a redirect, but it doesn't quite
work because it ends to an infinite loop cause the page
is redirecting to itself:

header("Location: " . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] .
"?field1=something&field2=something else");

That would bee neet. I just would create a string from the contents
I receive from the db and just redirect, but as I said, it doesn't
work easily. You have to use the apache rewrite, but I didn't quite
get it.

Another solution is to check if the request is not empty for the
particular field.

Spell Form Fields Using Google API?
has anyone produced spell checker code for forms fields that uses the google
API?

WHat about any GNU spell check that does NOT use aspell/pspell/ispell?

Duplicate Input In 2 Form Fields
Hope to check the input in two form fields:

input in "emailto" form field: a@a.com
input in "emailfrom" form field: a@a.com, b@b.com, c@c.com

I hope to remove the duplicated input "b@b.com" in "emailfrom" form output and then keep only the remaining part of the string. How can I do that? I have though a way in combining the two fields input as an array and then use "array_unique" to check the duplicate. And then, to separate the two fields input again.

Having Dependant Form Fields (comboboxes) From Each Other?
I am currently programming on a form with 2 combo-boxes for input. But I need the box 2 output be dependand on box 1 input. I will explain in more detail: I have a SQL table that has 3 columns. One for type, second for motor and third for defining.

By PHP I have output all types (cars and bikes) in the first combobox.
Now what I need is, how can I manage, that when a person chooses e.g. in box1 Mercedes (which is defined in the 3rd sql column as a car) it would only show in the combo-box 2 of my form those motors that fit a car WITHOUT reloading?

I kinda simplified things here a little, but what I described above is the main problem I have. Somehow it must be possible through javascript I guess to check the value in combobox1 get the 3rd columns value of the mySQL table probably by PHP before, and then check IF that value is car then show only certain motors and IF that value is bike show other motors.

Checking For Required Form Fields
i have written the script to check for blank form fields (all fields are required)
on my registration form using :

if (ereg(".", $first) == 1){
$verify = "OK";}
else{
print ("<b>ERROR:</b> A first name is required.");
$verify = "bad";}

my question is, although this script works to verify a form field, it doesnt prevent the incomplete form from being sent to the database. can someone tell me how to stop the form from being sent if it is incomplete, and should this script be included on the form page(html page) or the php page that submits the data to mysql?

Defaulting Data In Form Fields
in a lengthly form, is it possible to use PHP3 to automatically fill form fields with data that has already been entered into a previous place on the same form?...or from a previously filled out form?..likewise, is it possible to perform a math calculation on a number entered into a field and have the result automatically defaulted to another subsequent field?

Omitting Form Fields If Empty
I have a form I'm putting together. The processing will be on a PHP
script that will take all the field names and print them out on the
email it sends to me. No problem there. But what I'd like to do is have
it exclude printing the field name and value when there are any blank
values in the field.

The processing part of the script is this:

if (is_array($val)) {
for ($z=0;$z<count($val);$z++) {
$content .= "$key: $val[$z]
";
}
} else {
$content .= "$key: $val
";
}

How would I adapt this to not print a field name with a blank value?

Sticky Form With Multiple Fields
how do i create a sticky form with multiple fields? say
i want a form with:

name: [input field name]
address: [input field address]
country: [input field country]

[submit button]

and if a user presses the submit button it will show
exactly the same page with the fields that the user
has entered filled in with the values (s)he entered
(validation of the values will come later), and the
info of the form sent.

should i name all the values in the form separately
or should i use an array?

Enter Data Into PDF Form Fields
Is it possible to use PHP to fill in fields in a PDF form? The form can be found at :PDF form The background to the question is that I have a client who has a debt collection database system written in DataEase that ouputs County Court Summons data on to Court Summons Stationary. This is hit and miss on the printing margins depending on OS system or printer.

The system is being written in PHP so the summons forms could be produced in HTML if the existing PDF form isn't a viable solution.

Passing Hidden Fields In A Form?
I'm wanting to take information that is put into a hidden field by a sql query and post it to a script...I have a page that lists the players(nfl), in a table, for each persons team. beside their players name on their roster is a dropdown menu that has starter and bench. these options both have values.

then i also have hidden fields with the players names. what i want to do is be able to apply whatever option is selected in the table to the hidden fields so they can be passed to the script. if anyone has any better ideas i'm open.

Form Fields To Update A Webpage
I am trying to build this mini "publishing" system and allows the user to use form fields to update a webpage (images and text) then press a button to email that webpage to a list of emails. (spamming own userbase). I will have a webpage with php code in it and the code will pull data from the db.

How can I save the file has a static html file so that I can pass it to my mail function? or can I directly pass the php page to the mail function? or what is the best way of doing this? I also have to learn how to do file upload with php aswell.

Form Fields Not Submitted In Php. Any Gurus?

None of the variables passed thru the HTML files once filled are displayed in the process.php I checked my PHP.ini file it says register_globals=On ....

None of the variables passed thru the HTML files once filled are displayed in the process.php

I checked my PHP.ini file it says register_globals=On ....