[wonderland]

Hi

Totally basic question (total newbie to php and programming!)

what is the code to open other web pages in php?

after someone submits a form i want php to go to a page if
they leave a field blank for example, rather than just echo
out "you have not filled in your name"

as the visual style jumps from nice web page to crappy white
web page with unformatted text etc.

will be sooo grateful if someone could help!

Cheers.

[NeverMind]

didn't get you idea quite well , but this is a looong story
you can use the form action in the page you want to submit your info to ..
like :

Code:

<form method="POST" action="page.php">

and in this page.php make an IF statment to see if the fields were fell down or show the error message ,, a basic example of what you need:

PHP Code:

<?php

$user=trim($_POST['username']);

$pass=trim($_POST['password']);



if ( !user OR !pass ) {

echo'you didn\'t fell all fields required ..';

} else {

//PUT REST OF SCRIPT HERE ..

}

you can format the output using the simple HTML <b> , <u> , <i> and <font> to format your output ..

[darton520]

At the top of your form page, you could put:
<?php echo "$result"; ?> <?php echo "$result2"; ?> etc. the rest of the first line

Make sure not to break after the php snippet or it will have a blank line or two at the top of your page. Use double quotes so if $result is blank, it will not do anything.

On the action page, you could use this:

if((empty(inputname1)) || (empty(inputname2)))
{
if(empty(inputname1))
{
$result= 'put what you want your mesage to be here';
}
if(empty(inputname2))
{
$result = 'put what you want your second mesage to be here';
}
include 'your form page';
exit() //exits the script so it don't let the user proceed, or add info to your db
}
else
{
the rest of your script goes here
}

[wonderland]

Ah.

I knew this would get confusing...

So far the page works fine and reads an error message when the
required fields aren't filled in. But i have a pretty little frameset
which suddely is replaced by a horrible white page with non
formatted text saying "error: you didn't fill in your name" and this
looks very unprofessional. I am ofcourse using the 'if name field
is equal to zero, then echo "bla bla" '

So i need some code which, instead of echoing some text, actually
opens a web page which i have designed to look consistent with the
rest of the site.

Surely there must be some code which says

open ("/my_web_page.htm");

thanks guys.

[wonderland]

Its ok, Its ok.

I saw a similar topic on the subject, what i'm looking for is:

header("Location: http://url.com");

Which i use for positive confirmation and didn't stop to think
I could use it for negative confirmation


thanks anywho!

[artwyse11]

Hi
Just use an hybrid code HTML and PHP - in fact PHP support HTML - and use the redirection capability of HTML with the META tag or by adding some javascript. It will still stay an PHP file that will execute the PHP code and the additional HTML and even Javascript.
If that is not enough, ask, I will give you more detail.

[artwyse11]

I am sorry I didn't read you last message. header work as well.
But the advantage of using the META tag is that you can display a message for few seconds - like a thank you message - using that same php page and then redirect to another page.