Re: PHP Forms And self posting

Hi djx --
I did a form that pretty much put everything in one php file which was invoked 
as the action for whatever forms were on the page, so it could fill in the 
values.
It worked well for my purposes, but the logic was a bit harry and the code kind 
of unnatural.  I think it would have been better to pull apart the php and not 
do it all on onne page, but that being said, I didn't want to copy the common 
code for each of the pages.

I am curious: What are the pros and cons of writing a page that way (calling 
itself)?
Just wondering.
Happy hacking.
--le


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: D!J!X! 
  To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 11:01 PM
  Subject: PHP Forms And self posting


  Hey guys, i'm finishing up a site here and was just wondering, i've been 
reading online and it seems that some people strongly suggest against having 
php forms post back to themselves for error displaying and correction and 
processing. I can sort of understand why, but then again it seems that a lot of 
people are using it and recommend it, w3c included. Does anybody have any 
comments/opinions they can share that would help me shed some light on this 
matter? Self posting would make my life easier, but i have a solution that 
separates processing from the actual form page, except that there's a bit of 
code involved to redisplay the form with values filled in, error messages 
displayed etc. Any thoughts, comments, articles on the topic?

  THX, D!J!X!

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