Date: 02/04/07 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, html

 I have a question about the the 'best' (most efficient? cleanest? elegant?) way to process form data for a page. I don't know if I should process the data, update the DB, etc at the top of the page I'm displaying, or if I should handle it in a PHP file that then redirects to a page that displays HTML.

Should I:


index.php
// Some code here
include 'formProcessingStuff.php';
// Lots of code
include 'showBody.php';
// Lots more code
?>

or

formsubmit.php
//Page that processes the form

// Tons of code that processes and validates info and updates DB

// Now we want to give the user a page to see what he just did
header('Location: displayContentPage.php');

?>


displayContentPage.php
// Code that shows the body of the page
?>

The latter seems much cleaner and easier to see and understand and code. More encapulation to make updates easier down the line. But is this a Good Practice? Is it acceptable? What problems/drawbacks might I run into?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/537381.html