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Sep 12.2006

Ok, I fixed my last problem, but there’s one thing I don’t understand now.

I have contact.htm going to mailer.php… do I make the php page the “Your message has been sent” page? How do I redirect the person back to the form with all the values still in the fields if the PHP validation is wrong?

I am using JavaScript and I want to use PHP validation too.

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@chesemonkylomaSep 13.2006 — The "message has been sent" [I]will[/I] be the PHP page.

What I would suggest is having the form submit to itself. Here's some small example code:
[code=php]
<?php
if (isset("$_POST['submit']" AND it validates){ /*I'm not good with validation code and regex so I'm not completely sure how that would be done*/
echo "blah blah blah success!"; //tell them it worked
}
else{
if (it doesn't validate (insert code or whatever there) ) { //more validation
echo "Your values are not correct";
} ?>
<FORM action="$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']" method="post">//submits to itself
<input type="text" name="poopoo" value="<?php echo "$_POST['poopoo']"> //if post hasn't been "posted" it will still work fine
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">//submit
</FORM>
}
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@Reli4ntSep 13.2006 — I completely agree. I find it much easier to keep my scripts in one, file. It's faster, and much more versatile.

To amend the above I would put [CODE]value="<?php echo (isset($_POST['poopoo']))?$_POST['poopoo']:'' ;?>"[/CODE]
This way you don't get an warning when error reporting is on all.
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