Posted by kjohnson on 03/08/05 01:05

I think the problem is that the name and value attributes of the <form>
tag aren't posted with the rest of the data, i.e., $_POST['form'] isn't
defined.

You will need to code the form identifier a different way, e.g., either a
<hidden> field, or, unique name and value attributes in a <submit> button.

Kirk


Greg Dotts <listmember@dottsfamily.com> wrote on 03/07/2005 03:47:55 PM:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm new to PHP, but have read my "Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL" manual and
> have searched the net for a solution to my (presumably simple) problem.
>
> I have a series of HTML forms that need to be processed. I am tring to
> build a "process.php" file which will evaluate the FORM variable and
> select the proper code from a SWITCH statement. I have processed these
> forms using a different construct with IF ELSE statments, but it's
> getting messy and SWITCH looked like a good solution. The problem is
> that it doesn't work - isn't that always the problem! I can't find
> anything but simple examples of SWITCH usage on the net. Would someone
> be good enough to evaluate this script? Much thanks!!
>
> Below is the "process.php" script and the form tags go something like
this:
>
> <FORM action="process.php" method="post" name="form" value="addcontact">
> Some fields go here...
> </FORM>
>
> <FORM action="process.php method="post" name="form" value="addletter">
> More fields go here...
> </FORM>
>
> <?php
> //Include database access info
> include("setup.php");
> //Connect to the database server
> @mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass)or die(mysql_error());
> @mysql_select_db ($db) or die(mysql_error());
>
> //<------ Begin Main Script ------>
> $x = $_POST['form'];
> //Evaluate which form we are receiving and process the results
> switch ($x) {
> case "addcontact":
> //Get the form variables
> $cgroup = $_POST['cgroup'];
> $fname = $_POST['fname'];
> $lname = $_POST['lname'];
> $address = $_POST['address'];
> $city = $_POST['city'];
> $state = $_POST['state'];
> $zipcode = $_POST['zipcode'];
> $phone = $_POST['phone'];
> $email = $_POST['email'];
> //Insert form data into the database
> $query = "INSERT INTO contacts SET cgroup='$cgroup', fname='$fname',
> lname='$lname', address='$address', city='$city', state='$state',
> zipcode='$zipcode', phone='$phone', email='$email'";
> $result = mysql_query($query) or die (mysql_error());
> break;
>
> case "addletter":
> //Get the form variables
> $lgroup = $_POST['lgroup'];
> $lname = $_POST['lname'];
> $content = $_POST['lcontent'];
> //Insert form data into the database
> $query = "INSERT INTO letters SET lgroup='$lgroup', lname='$lname',
> lcontent='$lcontent'";
> $result = mysql_query($query) or die (mysql_error());
> break;
> }
> mysql_close();
> ?>
> //END SCRIPT
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Greg Dotts
>
> If quitters never win, and winners never quit,
> what fool came up with, "Quit while you're ahead"?
>
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