Posted by James Kaufman on 10/07/11 11:13

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 06:54:25PM -0700, dan wrote:
> Hello, all -
>
> I had some questions regarding the creation of "intelligent" forms -
> forms that take data, and then parse it for errors, "real" data, etc etc.
>
> The first idea I had was to make a function to display the form. When
> the form is submitted, the page would be called again (i.e. the form's
> ACTION=itself), and then the POST or GET or SESSION variables will be
> the arguments to the form. The idea is, when this happens, the form
> will be able to check the data that was sent, verify it, etc etc. If
> there are no problems with the data, then the user is directed to step 2
> of the form, or the second page, to enter in additional data. But how
> should the redirection happen?
>
....

What you are suggesting sounds a lot like what has been done with PEAR's
QuickForm and QuickForm_Controller. Look at pear.php.net and see what's already
been done. Why re-invent the wheel?

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