PHP PROBLEM: Cannot carry $_post through multiple pages.

[ryanhouston]

hello i am currently coding a multi page contact form. I want all data from each page to be took through all the pages so at the end its just like one simple contact form but in different steps. This is the code i used to carry the $_POST inputs through each page to the final page:

<?PHP
foreach ($_POST as $key => $val) {
echo "<input type='hidden' name='' . $key .
'' value='' . $val . '' />" . "\r\n";
}
?>

This code worked a charm up until i made my contact form use mysql database to display subjects and people you can contact i used the following code to display this data:

<?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","my_user","my db password");
if (!$con)
{
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}

mysql_select_db("my_database", $con);



$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM db_table");


echo "<br /><table border='0' width='100%'>";

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td style='text-transform:capitalize;'><input name='toemail' type='radio' value='" . $row['feild'] . "' />" . $row['feild1] . "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table><br />";
?>

After using this peice of php my code to carry the data through all the pages works up untill it gets to the page that you select who you would like to contact ( note: i used this same script on the index.php page of my script which is a page that displayed subjects from a mysql database and it carryied the data through pages perfect. ) Then when it gets to the sadmin.php page, it lets say stops working, It drops all data it carryied on and just keeps the email that its to send to so by the end of the pages the form only collected one peice of information the email address. Please look at my script and fix this problem so that from page index.php the data is carryied o to send_mail.php so that i can use the $_POST inputs in the email it sends me thanks for reading person who helps me will get the finished version free of charge once i have completed my project.


DOWLOAD THE SOURCE REQUIRED:

http://rapidshare.com/files/149517983/source.zip

THANKS AGAIN
EMAIL ME: MRWHOUSTON1@AOL.COM

[DaveSawers]

I can't see any reason why using MySQL should stop your hidden fields from working and passing on the data. I suspect the problem is elsewhere in that page (in a part you haven't included).

Use an HTML checker to make sure what you have coded is legitimate.

[ryanhouston]

dave what is your email

and i will send you full source ( note: source is untidy and im finding new ways to make it easyier and neater )

[ryanhouston]

look at my script so far hello u will need to view source of each page to view the error

[DaveSawers]

I'm not going to debug your source code for you. I don't mind helping with suggestions.

So clean up your code and the HTML it produces and perhaps the problem will just go away.

[wige]

The way you are inserting the values into the hidden fields is sort of commenting them out. Basically, it looks like they are not being parsed correctly. You need to look at how you are generating the hidden fields and remove the extra characters from each field.

[ryanhouston]

thanks for your support guys this was really good help. Thanks again.

[edhan]

Originally Posted by ryanhouston

look at my script so far hello u will need to view source of each page to view the error

I have gone through the script and it does not have any problem.

[kruser]

Hello,

When I am looking for the value in an array using PHP I usually get it by:

$row[field]

Try this line and check the output on your system:

<?
  print"quoted array=$row['field]<br/>non quoted array = $row[field]";
?>

Also the line below has one single quote.

$row['feild1] . "</td>";

Surprised you did not get an error message on that. Suggestion: turn PHP error messages on, it really saves time in development.

[ryanhouston]

how do i turn php error message on ??? and you aren't seeing an error because i have fixed it

[DaveSawers]

Originally Posted by ryanhouston

how do i turn php error message on

Put:

error_reporting(7);

at the beginning of each script. Take it out again before going live. See PHP: error_reporting - Manual for more info.