PHP - Send/receive Data.

I needed a server side PHP validation script for my form to use on top of client side Javascript as a backup. I found a nice package where I just include the validator and set a few options then it does the rest. However it doesn't seem to work with the action="whateveraction.php" for the form. It will skip all the validation and immediately go to the action script. So I left that blank as you can see in the form below and figured I would send the post data somehow to the script using PHP when the validation is successful. However I am stumped on how to do that can I get some coding help?

This is the small validation script. I will attach the formvalidator.php in this post.
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<?php
require_once "formvalidator.php";
if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
    $validator = new FormValidator();
    $validator->addValidation("age","req","Please fill in your Age");
    $validator->addValidation("mcid","req","Please fill in your Minecraft Username");
    $validator->addValidation("description","req","Please fill in a Description");
    if($validator->ValidateForm())
    {

      //need something here to have it send the post data to /mcbuildapp/form_submit.php

    }
    else
    {
        echo "<div class=blockrow><b><font size=5>Form Errors:</font><b></div>";

        $error_hash = $validator->GetErrors();
        foreach($error_hash as $inpname => $inp_err)
        {
          echo "<div class=blockrow><p><font color=red>$inp_err</font></p>\n</div>";
        }
    }
}

Then the form if it matters....
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<div class="blockrow">
<font size=4><b>Minecraft Building Rights Application</b></font>
<br />
<br />
<b>Failing to fill in any of these fields sufficiently will result in an automatic denial of your application!</b><br />
<b>Think of it this way, being lazy and applying wrong is only wasting your time. Take the time to do it correctly the first time.</b>
 
<br />
<br />

<b><font color=red>To ensure proper user authentication and security you must first join the server at least once before applying for your building rights to work!</font></b>
<br />
<br />
<form action="" id="mcbuilderapp" name="mcbuilderapp" method="post">

<label><b>Your Minecraft Username (required)</b><br />
Use exact capitalization and punctuation that matches your Minecraft.net account!</label>
 
<br />
<br />
 
<input type="text" name="mcid" id="mcid" maxlength="25"/>
 
<br />
<br />
 
<label><b>Your Age (required)</b></label>
 
<br />
<br />
                 
<input type="text" name="age" id="age" maxlength="3"/>
   
<br />
<br />
 
<label><b>Describe Yourself (required)</b><br />
Describe yourself in <b>no less</b> than 3 sentences using <b>correct grammar</b>.</label>
 
<br />
<br />
 
<textarea name="description" id="description" minlength="10" maxlength="1000" cols=60 rows=5 wrap="physical">
</textarea>
 
<br />
<br />
 
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
</div>
MOD EDIT: PHP manual tags changed to code tags . . .

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I am retrieving Google Books info in JSON format and displaying it inside a div. I would like to send the contents of this div (name, title, description) to my database using Ajax.   Currently only the ISBN field sends because I have it declared as a variable. However my question is, how do I send the other fields (name, title, author). How do I declare these also, I'm not sure what format they need to be in etc.   My JS

$(document).ready(function() {
$('#submit').click(function(ev) {
ev.preventDefault();
var isbn = $('#isbn_search').val(); //get isbn direct from input
var url='https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes?q='+isbn;
$.getJSON(url,function(data){
$.each(data.items, function(entryIndex, entry){
var html = '<div class="results well">'; 
html += '<h3>' + entry.volumeInfo.title + '</h3>';
html += '<div class="author">' + entry.volumeInfo.authors + '</div>';
html += '<div class="description">' + entry.volumeInfo.description + '</div>';
}); 
});
});
});

My Ajax;

        $.ajax({
             type: 'POST',
             url: 'addIsbnScript.php',
             data: {
                 'isbn' : isbn,
                 'title' : title
                 'subtitle' : subtitle,
                 'authors' : authors,
                 'description' : description
             },
             success: function () { 
            $.growl({
            message: " Record added"
});      
}
});

Note, if i manually set the vars like below they all do successfully send to my database, so I know my query is working ok

var title = "some text",
var author = "some text",
Var description = "some text"

Thanks in advance for any help, newbie here (incase it wasn't obvious!).   J  

Hello everyone,

I am trying to submit a comment in a comment box and send it to the DB but is not happening. The connection is good as I am logging in and all but no data is sent to the DB when I post the comment. It doesn't show in my comment section either. 

 

Form

    <!--comment section-->
<?php
if(isset($_SESSION['id'])) {
    echo "<form method='POST' action='" . setComments($conn) . "'>
        <input type='hidden' name='uidUsers' value='".$_SESSION['id']."'>
        <input type='hidden' name='posted' value='" . date('Y-m-d H:i:s') . "'>
        Comments: <textarea rows = '5' cols = '15' name='body'></textarea><br><br>
        <button name='commentSubmit' type='submit'>Comment</button>
        </form>";
}else {
    echo "Log in to comment!";
}
 getComments($conn);

 

 

Function to set and get comments

function setComments($conn) {
    if (isset($_POST['commentSubmit'])){
        $user_id = $_POST['uidUsers'];
        $body = $_POST['body'];
        $posted = $_POST['posted'];
        $sql = "INSERT INTO comments (uidUsers, posted, body) VALUES ('$user_id', '$posted', '$body')";
        $result = mysqli_query($conn, $sql);
    }
    
}

function getComments($conn) {
    $sql = "SELECT * FROM comments";
    $result = mysqli_query($conn, $sql);
    while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()){
        $id = $row['uidUsers'];
        $sql2 ="SELECT * FROM users WHERE uidUsers='$id'";
        $result2 = mysqli_query($conn, $sql2);
        if($row2 = $result2->fetch_assoc()){
            echo "<div class='comment-box'><p>";
            echo $row2['uidUsers'] . "<br>";
            echo $row['posted'] . "<br>";
            echo nl2br($row['body']);
            echo "</p></div>";


        }

    
    }

}

I am successfully doing this, however, I believe I am doing it wrong.  I am currently doing the following.  How should I be doing this?  My thought is getObject.php should return JSON, not JavaScript, but I don't know how to assign the received JSON to the myObj variable.  Thanks

How to send multipart/form-data ? via curl or so ...

here i am going to send it - http://dezend.me/dezend/

The top half of this code works great ( where the HR line across ) now I'm trying to get it to post the some of the same data to another process script. I keep getting errors. can some please tell me what I'm doing wrong or missing.

<?php
function dataPost($fieldValue){
   //extract data from the post
   extract($_POST);

   //set POST variables
    $url = 'http://www.domain.com/processform1.phpp';
   
   $fields = array(
      'how_you_heard_about_us'=>$how_you_heard_about_us,
        'how_you_heard_about_us_other'=>$how_you_heard_about_us_other,
        'chk_atm_machines'=>$chk_atm_machines,
      'custom1'=>$custom1,
      'txt_business_adrss'=>$txt_business_adrss,
      'txt_city'=>$txt_city,
      'txt_state'=>$txt_state,
      'txt_zip'=>$txt_zip,
      'txt_country'=>$txt_country,
      'txt_phone'=>$txt_phone,
      'txt_fax'=>$txt_fax,
      'txt_website'=>$txt_website,
      'firstname'=>$firstname,
         );

   //url-ify the data for the POST
   foreach($fields as $key=>$value) { $fields_string .= $key.'='.$value.'&'; }
   rtrim($fields_string,'&');

   //open connection
   $ch = curl_init();

   //set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
   curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
   curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST,count($fields));
   curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$fields_string);

   //execute post
   $result = curl_exec($ch);

   //close connection
   curl_close($ch);
                                    from here down I'm not to sure with.....

//create array of data to be posted
$post_data['firstname'] = 'firstname';
$post_data['custom1'] = 'custom1';
$post_data['txt_state'] = 'txt_state';
 
//traverse array and prepare data for posting (key1=value1)
foreach ( $post_data as $key => $value) {
    $post_items[] = $key . '=' . $value;
}
 
//create the final string to be posted using implode()
$post_string = implode ('&', $post_items);
 
//create cURL connection
$curl_connection =
  curl_init('http://www.domain.com/processform2.php');
 
//set options
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_USERAGENT,
  "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)");
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
 
//set data to be posted
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_string);
 
//perform our request
$result = curl_exec($curl_connection);
 
//show information regarding the request
print_r(curl_getinfo($curl_connection));
echo curl_errno($curl_connection) . '-' .
                curl_error($curl_connection);
 
//close the connection
curl_close($curl_connection);
}

dataPost('Some Data');
?>

Hi,

I am sending data from a form to a URL using $_GET but I would also like the user to be redirected to a thankyou page which is a different URL.

Does anyone know if this is possible?

Thanks,

hello,
   I was wondering if it is possible to get all the data sent by a html form via post/get method and use it somehow.
   it is difficult to explain what i mean, i don't mean to say how to get data normally i.e.. by using variables for example $data = $_POST['data']; that can only get only one field that is "data".
  The reason i am looking for this is because i have many forms that will have to use the mail() function, the problem is creating variables for each from then use the mail() function to send it will be time consuming. and the fields are different in different forms.
I have noticed the similar technology used by mailmyform . com, they capture the data in any html form posted to their php page and mail it to the given email.

Hey there,

I gotta say I am new to this forum and new to PHP. I found a script online that sends NOW PLAYING data, from a text file, to a shout cast server.
We're not using shout cast and I need to modify this script to make it work with TuneIn AIR API.

The script is based on this server URL:
Quote

http://myusername:pass@192.168.1.22:8543/admin/metadata?mount=/live&mode=updinfo&song=somesongandartist



Though TuneIn uses a different URL and API
Quote

GET http://air.radiotime.com/Playing.ashx?partnerId=<id>&partnerKey=<key>&id=<stationid>&title=Bad+Romance&artist=Lady+Gaga


I currently don't have the PartnerID and PartnerKey but that should be easy to replace in the script.

I'm calling everyone on this forum to help me out with this and change the code to make this script work.
I would appreciate it very much!!

I'm a radio guy and not not a coder. Thats why I ask for this big favor.

Thank you very much.

WPBK FM

All good with sending single dimensional form data to the server using application/x-www-form-urlencoded, and having PHP convert it into an array.  Also, good with sending simple arrays using [].  But then I find myself needing to send a deeper object to the server .  For example, I have a form with three text inputs simpleFormName 1, 2, and 3 plus some deeper object.

Array
(
    [simpleFormName1] => bla
    [simpleFormName2] => bla
    [simpleFormName3] => bla
    [deeperObject] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [prop1] => bla
                    [prop2] => true
                    [data] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => Array
                                (
                                    [p1] => 321
                                    [p2] => 123
                                )

                            [1] => Array
                                (
                                    [p1] => 121
                                    [p2] => 423
                                )

                            [2] => Array
                                (
                                    [p1] => 221
                                    [p2] => 133
                                )

                        )

                )

            [1] => Array
                (
                    [prop1] => blabla
                    [prop2] => false
                    [data] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => Array
                                (
                                    [p1] => 222
                                    [p2] => 443
                                )

                            [1] => Array
                                (
                                    [p1] => 321
                                    [p2] => 213
                                )

                            [2] => Array
                                (
                                    [p1] => 111
                                    [p2] => 421
                                )

                        )

                )

        )

)

 

I see at least four options:

Come up with naming structure which "flattens" the data.  I have used this approach in the past, but it quickly becomes difficult to manage and I don't want to do so. Not use PHP's POST and and instead use Content-Type: application/json and file_get_contents(php://input) and json_decode the entire request server side. Use PHP's POST and urlencoding but make deeperObject a string using JSON.stringify and json_decode this one field server side. Urlencode the entire object.

simpleFormName1=bla&simpleFormName2=bla&simpleFormName3=bla&deeperObject%5B0%5D%5Bprop1%5D=bla&deeperObject%5B0%5D%5Bprop2%5D=true&deeperObject%5B0%5D%5Bdata%5D%5B0%5D%5Bp1%5D=321&deeperObject%5B0%5D%5Bdata%5D%5B0%5D%5Bp2%5D=123&deeperObject%5B0%5D%5Bdata%5D%5B1%5D%5Bp1%5D=121&deeperObject%5B0%5D%5Bdata%5D%5B1%5D%5Bp2%5D=423&deeperObject%5B0%5D%5Bdata%5D%5B2%5D%5Bp1%5D=221&deeperObject%5B0%5D%5Bdata%5D%5B2%5D%5Bp2%5D=133&deeperObject%5B1%5D%5Bprop1%5D=blabla&deeperObject%5B1%5D%5Bprop2%5D=false&deeperObject%5B1%5D%5Bdata%5D%5B0%5D%5Bp1%5D=222&deeperObject%5B1%5D%5Bdata%5D%5B0%5D%5Bp2%5D=443&deeperObject%5B1%5D%5Bdata%5D%5B1%5D%5Bp1%5D=321&deeperObject%5B1%5D%5Bdata%5D%5B1%5D%5Bp2%5D=213&deeperObject%5B1%5D%5Bdata%5D%5B2%5D%5Bp1%5D=111&deeperObject%5B1%5D%5Bdata%5D%5B2%5D%5Bp2%5D=421

Any recommendations how to best implement?  If you recommend using urlencoding for simple forms, but some other approach for more complex data, what criteria do you use to transition from one approach to another?

Thanks

I'm sure this is a simple question, and I'm not a total newbie, but I keep drawing a blank.

In accordance with existing specifications, a client has created a PHP page on their web server which responds to a query by returning a small block of XML.  I need to use that XML, and I have no problem doing that using XMLReader->open(clientURL).  I can call the client's PHP page and get XML back that I can parse and everything is wonderful.

Except for one thing:  I need to send a product ID when I call the client's PHP page, and I need to send it using the POST method.

I guess that means my clean and neat one-step process is going to have to become a two-step process, and I'm going to have to use some other means besides XMLReader->open() to retrieve the XML.

Can sombody recommend the best way to do this?  I need to send POST data first to get the correct XML response, and then I need to capture the XML in a way that allows me to parse it.

Hi All,

I have a table (with an ID of example) that can be seen he

http://tinyurl.com/cfla7wp

The following script calls jeditable.js and makes the Telephone & Mobile columns editable. Once edited, the table shows the new value plus a * symbol.

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<script type="text/javascript">
            $(document).ready(function() {
/* Init DataTables */
var oTable = $('#example').dataTable();

/* Apply the jEditable handlers to the table */
$('td:eq(4), td:eq(5)', oTable.fnGetNodes()).editable( 'update_table_tenants.php', {
"callback": function( sValue, y ) {
var aPos = oTable.fnGetPosition( this );
oTable.fnUpdate( sValue, aPos[0], aPos[1] );
},
"submitdata": function ( value, settings ) {
return {
"row_id": this.parentNode.getAttribute("1"),
"column": oTable.fnGetPosition( this )[2]
};
},
"height": "14px"
} );
} );           
</script>

What I need to do however is add the value entered into my database, but I do not know how to do this.

I believe I need to do something like:

UPDATE my_table VALUE whatever column has been edited in the table WHERE tenID is the same as the row selected in the table

i.e. if I update the MOBILE NUMBER of the person called BILL GATES it would find his tenID, update numMobile in the table called my_table

All help appreciated

Dave

Hi there, hope u guys able to help.

I'm have created a enquiry form where I want these actions to run when a button is submitted:

1.  Insert data from form fields into my database

2.  When data is inserted into database, then send an e-mail (multiple email user) to the address with the form fields. The e-mail is carrying the form fields.

so ...what I need now is how to send the form field to email. Insert the data into my table in my database,then send en e-mail.

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<?
 // Connects to your Database

 mysql_connect("xxxxxx","xxxxxx","xxxxxx") or die(mysql_error());

 mysql_select_db("xxxxxx") or die(mysql_error());


 
 // now we insert it into the database

    $insert = "INSERT INTO enquiry (name, email, cont_number, subject, msg)

          VALUES ('".$_POST['name']."', '".$_POST['email']."', '".$_POST['cont_number']."',
               '".$_POST['subject']."','".$_POST['msg']."')";

    $add_member = mysql_query($insert);

    ?>



<?php
function error_bool($error, $field) { 
         if($error[$field]) { 
             print("<td style=color:red>"); 
         } 
        else { 
            print("<td>"); 
        } 
    } 

function show_form() { 
global $HTTP_POST_VARS, $print_again, $error; 
?>



 <h2 align="center"> Enquiry Form</h2>
 <form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">
   <table align="center" cellpadding="3">
    <tr>
     <?php error_bool($error, "name"); ?> Name </td>
      <td>:<input name="name" type="text" id="name"  SIZE="33" value="<? echo $_POST["name"]; ?>"></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <?php error_bool($error, "email"); ?> Email </td>
      <td>:<input name="email" type="text" id="email" SIZE="33" value="<? echo $_POST["email"]; ?>"></td>
    </tr>
   
   
    <tr><td>Contact No. </td><td>

 :<input type="text" name="cont_number"  SIZE="33" maxlength="10">

 </td></tr>
 
 <tr><td>Subject </td><td>

 :<input type="text" name="subject"  SIZE="33"  maxlength="25">

 </td></tr>
 


 <tr><td>Your Message :</td><td>

 <textarea name="msg" cols="27" rows="5"
   wrap="virtual"></textarea>

 </td></tr>
   

    <tr>
      <td><th colspan=4 align="right">
      <input type="reset" value="CLEAR"><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"></td>
      </th><td> </td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</form>
<?
}
if(isset($_POST["Submit"])) {
    check_form();
} else {
    show_form();
}

function check_email_address($email) {
  // First, we check that there's one @ symbol, and that the lengths are right
  if (!ereg("^[^@]{1,64}@[^@]{1,255}$", $email)) {
    // Email invalid because wrong number of characters in one section, or wrong number of @ symbols.
    return false;
  }
  // Split it into sections to make life easier
  $email_array = explode("@", $email);
  $local_array = explode(".", $email_array[0]);
  for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($local_array); $i++) {
     if (!ereg("^(([A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-][A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~\.-]{0,63})|(\"[^(\\|\")]{0,62}\"))$", $local_array[$i])) {
      return false;
    }
  }
  if (!ereg("^\[?[0-9\.]+\]?$", $email_array[1])) { // Check if domain is IP. If not, it should be valid domain name
    $domain_array = explode(".", $email_array[1]);
    if (sizeof($domain_array) < 2) {
        return false; // Not enough parts to domain
    }
    for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($domain_array); $i++) {
      if (!ereg("^(([A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9-]{0,61}[A-Za-z0-9])|([A-Za-z0-9]+))$", $domain_array[$i])) {
        return false;
      }
    }
  }
  return true;
}


function check_form()
{
global $HTTP_POST_VARS, $error, $print_again;
$error['name'] = false;
    if($_POST["name"]=="") {
        $error['name'] = true;
         $print_again = true;
        $message="The name field is empty<br>";
    }
    if(!check_email_address($_POST['email'])) {
        $error['email'] = true;
         $print_again = true;
        $message.="Either Field Empty or Invalid Email ID <br>";
    }
     if($print_again) {
         show_form();
       
       } else {
        show_form();
           $message="Thank You !! <br>
        Form has been submitted";
       }
   echo "$message";
}

?>

</body>
</html>




How do i do this? Thank you in advanced and sorry for bad English.

Best regards,
Desmond

I have been given a task, and I gotta say it is kicking my butt.   Here is what I have to do.   1. Have user fill out and submit a form. 2. Data gets sent to: http://www.ffiec.gov...de/Default.aspx 3. Data is set as values for input fields in the sites form. 4. Form executes. 5. Retrieve result data. 6. Display data back to my site.   I have no idea how to do this.   Usually when I have done something like this I use an API.   Hope my question is clear.   Thanks for the help.

<script type="text/javascript">