PHP - Get Variables From Page To Page

I have a php script which is viewed with ajax. The script does some important things and I want to make sure that it's viewed by only the ajax and now the user so I was thinking I'd need to pass a code from the main page using a GET in either php or more likely javascript, as I don't want the user to be able to see the code and then be able to just copy it and view the script with it. I've tried to sort this by saving Math.random() to the database by using ajax using a separate file, then underneath it use it to access the file like this:
Code: [Select]
function saveCode() {
var xmlHttp = connect();
if(xmlHttp != false) {var code = Math.random();
xmlHttp.open('GET', '/inc/battle/saveCode.php?i='+code, true);
xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if(xmlHttp.readyState == 4) {
battleLog = xmlHttp.responseText;
battleList = battleLog.split('\n');
battleCount = battleList.length;
addLine();
}
}
xmlHttp.send('null');
}

This would save the code to the database, then with a separate function, namely endBattle() the variable code would be used to access a file called endBattle.php?i= where this script would compare the code from the GET variable to the code in the database. However, I realised before finishing this that the user could manually set the code to whatever they want through the saveCode.php page, then view the endBattle.php
Does anyone have any ideas how else I could validate my endBattle.php page so that users couldn't view it in their browser to run it? Forgive me if this is in the completely wrong forum, I just thought I'd see whether there were any php methods of doing this. Thanks!

Is there anyway I can like "exit" the variables so i can use the same variable name later in the page?

i have problem :

I have a page(page1) that sends details to the login page(page2) to check if the details are correct checks these and if there is a match it directs them to the next page.(page 3)

The page1 sends 3 details to the page 2 that are stored into variavles but as there is no submittion when they check the details how do i then send these details onto the page 3 ?

Hey people,

I know this is going back to basics but i'm just learning and want to make sure I do it all correctly.

I want to pass variable's from one page to another. Now currently say I wanted to hold the users age and email address from his record in the database from page A and pass it to page B for it to be displayed back to him I would store each in their own session variable (so for the purpose of the explanation session_user_email=me@email.com and session_user_age=18.

On page B I would then call the session and store it in a variable then destroy the session.

Just out of curiosity is the the best way to pass the data? or should i use another method?

i've read about session hijacking and i'm now worried about holding personal data within a session so i'm wondering what other people do??

Cheers

Hello all,

I'm new to php and I'm running into some trouble. I'm hoping someone will be able to help me. Here is the code I already have:


<?php
include "include/dbc.php";

include "include/header.inc";
?>

<style type="text/css">
.mydate{
color:#00F;
text-decoration:underline;
cursor:pointer;
}
</style>

<script type="text/javascript">
function displayDate(d){
var date=new Date();
var D=date.getDate();
date.setDate(D+d);
var YYYY=date.getFullYear();
var MM=date.getMonth()+1;
MM<10?MM='0'+MM:null;
var DD=date.getDate();
DD<10?DD='0'+DD:null;
var span=document.getElementById('date');
span.innerHTML= 'Entries for '+MM+'/'+DD+'/'+YYYY;
}
onload=function(){displayDate(0)};
</script>

<h1>Food Diary</h1>

<div class="full">
<center><div><span class="mydate" onclick="displayDate(-1)"><img src="images/left_arrow.png" border="0">Yesterday</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span id="date" style="font-size:2em;"></span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="mydate" onclick="displayDate(1)">Tomorrow<img src="images/right_arrow.png" border="0"></span></div><br />
<a href="#" onclick="displayDate(0);return false;">Today</a>
</center>

<div class="full">
<form name="exercise" id="exercise" method="GET" action="">
  <center><table>
<tr>
     <td><h3>Add an Activity</h3></td>
</tr>
<tr>
     <td><input name="NewSearchString" style="width: 100px" type="text"/>&nbsp;&nbsp;<input type="submit" value="Search" /> </td>
</tr>
    <tr>
     <td>
         <select name="activity">
             <option value="_">Activity Browse...</option>
                <option value="all">All Activities</option>
                <option value="biking">Biking</option>
                <option value="condition">Conditioning</option>
                <option value="dancing">Dancing</option>
                <option value="fish">Fishing & Hunting</option>
                <option value="Home">Home Activities</option>
                <option value="misc">Miscellaneous</option>
                <option value="music">Music Playing</option>
                <option value="occupation">Occupation</option>
                <option value="running">Running</option>
                <option value="sports">Sports</option>
                <option value="walking">Walking</option>
                <option value="water">Water Activities</option>
                <option value="winter">Winter Activities</option>
</select> &nbsp;&nbsp;<input type="submit" value="Submit" /></td></tr></table></center></form>
</td>
</tr>
</table> </center>
<table width="100%">
    <tr bgcolor="#66CC33">
     <td><div>Activity</div></td>
        <td><div>Specific Activity</div></td>
        <td><div>Time (hh:mm)</div></td>
        <td><div>Distance</div></td>
        <td><div>Units</div></td>
</tr>
    <tr bgcolor="#66CC33">
     <td><div></div></td>
      <td><div></div></td>
       <td><div></div></td>
        <td><div class="Float"></div></td>
        <td class="cp_Distance"><div></div></td>
</tr>
<?php
if(isset($_GET[activity])) {
$category=$_GET[activity];
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM exercise WHERE type='$category'");
?>
<form action="add_activity.php" method="post">
<?php
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
echo '<tr><td><div>'.$row[Type].'</div></td>';
echo '<td><div>'.$row[Name].'<input type="hidden" name="exerciseid" value="'.$row[No].'"></div></td>';
echo '<td><div><input type="text" name="duration"></div></td>';
echo '<td><div><input type="text" name="distance"></div></td>';
echo '<td><div><select>
         <option value="mile">mile</option>
             <option value="Km">km</option>
             <option value="M">m</option>
             <option value="Yard">yrd</option>
             <option value="Feet">ft</option>
            </select></div></td></tr>';

}
mysql_close();
?>
<tr><td colspan="6" align="center"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Add Activities"></td></tr>
</form>
<?php
}
?>
    <tr bgcolor="#66CC33">
     <td><div></div></td>
      <td><div></div></td>
       <td><div></div></td>
        <td><div class="Float"></div></td>
        <td class="cp_Distance"><div></div></td>
</tr></table>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;




This code is supposed to pull info from a database and place it in a table. Once the user clicks the add activities button at the bottom, there values are supposed to be passed and displayed in the second page. Here's what I have for the second page:


<?php
include "include/dbc.php";

include "include/header.inc";

$activity  = $_POST['activity'];
$exercise = $_POST['exercise'];
$duration = $_POST['duration'];
$distance = $_POST['distance'];



echo $exercise;
echo $duration;
echo $distance;
?>


(Keep in mind that I am using this code to test the functionality of the page before I make it look nice) When I pass the values to the 2nd page, I get a black screen. Nothing is passing and I don't know why. Am I going about this the wrong way? Is there something I need to do to make the code better? Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks in advance.

ok ive searched everywhere online for a webform that is in 2 or more parts... so the first page passes variables to the second page then saves info for next page to submit all info from both pages of application to a server etc.


ideally my page would look like this...

page 1:

small form with 3 fields:

1. type of loan:
[dropdown menu]
a. Cashout refinance
b. Purchase

2. Property type:
[dropdown menu]
a. single family
b. multi-unit, etc.

3. Property State:
[dropdown menu]
a. states.......

[Next Page] <---Button

page 2:

a few more fields:

(for example:)
1. Approximate credit score
[dropdown menu]
a. 650-700 etc....

2. Phone number
[textbox]

3. email address
[textbox]

[submit button]


I know its possible, i just need to be put on the path... any help is much appreciated!

I'm new to PHP and I have an html page I would like to pull specific data into certain areas on the page that I will modified for php.

Here are some details. The page is a static html page that has the prices of 40+ products in a standard <li> list. When I update the prices in our database through our shopping cart, I have to change these prices manually in the html. https://www.novon.co...mic_mixers.html. It would be great if I could link the field for Base_Price in the products table to each affiliated <li> tag,

I am pulling all the data I need into ($results) and can display it all but I don't know how to get just the single products Base_Price in my <li> tag. <?=$row['Base_Price'] ?>

I know this code is not correct but to get the point across, can I create a variable that I define in each <li> tag with a statement like,,,, <?=$row['Base_Price with Product_Code=123456'] ?>

I could create a new SQL query for each <li> like "SELECT Base_Price from Products WHERE Product_Code='123456' ", but that's a lot of calls to the DB and a lot of code on the page.

And just so I weed out the hard core coders, I can not rebuild the entire page. This is too big of a project for me and my limited coding with PHP.

Can anyone help??
Thanks in advance
Michael

Hi all,

I've been trying to create a page whereby a user enters a few details which is then emailed, but I'm seriously stuck on one issue.

First page - console type
Second page - serial number

Only two steps at the moment as I need to figure it out.  I'm passing everything into a variable from a post(ed) form.  It appears on the next page fine, as I've been testing, but the details entered on the first page don't show on the third, however, the details from the second page do!  Here is the code I have:

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   <?php switch ($step) { 
   case "1": ?>
   <table width="75%" align="center">
   <tr>
   <td colspan="2" valign="top">
   <form action="?step=2" method="post" id="consoletype">Please select your console type<br /></td></tr>
   <tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="50%">
<label>Xbox 360 Original (Beige or Black)<br /><img src="images/xbox360orig.gif" width="250" height="250"><br /><input class="button" type="radio" name="console" value="xboxorig" /></label></td>
<td align="center" valign="top" width="50%"><label>Xbox 360 Slim<br /><img src="images/xbox360slim.gif" width="250" height="250"><br /><input type="radio" name="console" value="xboxslim" /></label></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td colspan="2">
   <input type="submit" value="Next">
   </form>
   </td>
   </tr>
   </table>
   <?php echo $code; 
   include("footer.php");
   echo $code2;
   include("compat.php");
   echo $code3;   
   case "2":
   $console = $_POST['console'];
   echo $console; ?>
   Please enter your Xbox 360 Serial Number:<br />
   <form action="?step=3" method="post">
   <input name="serialno" type="text" size="20" maxlength="20">
   <input type="submit" value="Next">
   </form>
   <?php echo $code; 
   include("footer.php");
   echo $code2;
   include("compat.php");
   echo $code3;
   case "3":
   echo "<br />";
   $serialno = $_POST['serialno'];
   echo $serialno;
   echo $console;
   echo $code; 
include("footer.php");
echo $code2;
include("compat.php");
echo $code3; } ?>
I do understand it's messy at the moment but I don't see much point beautifying everything until I can solve this problem!

Cheers!

Is there any way to access a variable that is not assigned until further down the page eg:

echo $myname;

$myname = 'batman'; // clearly my real name which is why I am so poor at coding

Thanks 

what I am trying to accomplish is for the user to select the state they wish, hit submit. At this point another form should show asking which county based on the state they picked, then hit search.

At this point, I'm having an issue having the state variable being passed to the 2nd form also having the state they selected stay selected.


<?php
$default = "Step 1. Pick Your State";
$select = "<option name='statebox'>$default</option>";
  echo "<br/><form method='POST' action=".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']." >";
   echo "<select name='search'>";
echo "$select";
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//Connect to the database
include_once 'phpforms/connect.php';

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM states");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)){
$state = $row['states'];
echo "<option name='statebox'>$state</option>";
}//End While
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
        echo "</select>";
        echo "<input align='left' type='submit' name='stateboxbutton' value='Ok'> ";
  echo "</form>";
  
echo "</td>";
     echo "<td>";

if(isset($_POST['stateboxbutton'])){
$statesearch = $_POST['statebox'];
$selected = $_POST['statebox'];
$select = "<option name='statebox'>$selected</option>";

  echo "<br/><form action='../search-results.php' method='POST'>";
   echo "<select name='search'>";
echo "<option name='default'>Step 2. Pick Your County</option>";

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//Connect to the database
include_once 'phpforms/connect.php';
$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM counties WHERE state LIKE '$statesearch'");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)){
$co = $row['counties'];
            echo "<option name='county'>$co</option>";
}//End While
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

        echo "</select>";
        echo "<input align='left' type='submit' name='button' value='Search'> ";
  echo "</form>";

}else{
}//End Else
  
?>

Some code from my pages ,   Page1 ( Redirecting page )

<html>
<title>login_redirect.</title>
body>

<form name="redirect" action="http://mysite/page2.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="mac" value="$(mac)">
</form>

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
document.redirect.submit();
//-->
</script>
</body>
</html>

Page 2 ( select product )

<?php


session_start();

ini_set('display_errors',1);
error_reporting(E_ALL); 

include '../lib/config.php';
include '../lib/opendb.php';

// get user mac adres from redirect post page1
$_SESSION['macid'] = $_POST['mac'];
// set $macid for other use ( maybe not needed, am learning )
$macid = $_SESSION['macid'];

// echo $macid does show mac adress, so variable is not empty here


if (!empty($_POST["submit"]))

{
$product_choice = $_POST['accounttype'];
$query= "SELECT AccountIndex, AccountCost, AccountName FROM AccountTypes WHERE AccountIndex='$product_choice'";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die('Query failed. ' . mysql_error()); 
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
$_SESSION['AccountIndex'] = $row['AccountIndex'];
$_SESSION['AccountCost'] = $row['AccountCost'];
$_SESSION['AccountName'] = $row['AccountName'];
}


header('Location: page3.php');

}

// did leave out the other/html/form stuff here

Page 3 ( show Session variables )

<?php


ini_set('display_errors',1);
error_reporting(E_ALL); 

session_start();

print_r($_SESSION);

?>

Now, on page 3 i do see the right session varables, only the "macid" is empty.   why ?    

I want to query a database (search) and pass the desired columns from the search results to another page like so: Code: [Select]
<?php

//address error handling

ini_set ('display_errors', 1);
error_reporting (E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);


//authenticate user
require('auth.php');


if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {

// Connect to the database.

        require_once ('config.php');


//Query the database.
$sql = "SELECT* FROM members INNER JOIN images ON members.member_id = images_member_id WHERE members.ethnicity = '{$_POST['ethnicity']}'";

$query = mysql_query($sql);

if(mysql_num_rows($query) > 0){ while(($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)) !== false)
         
{

//Redirect to search results page.

header("Location: search_results.php?friend='.$row['member_id'].'&me='.$_SESSION['id'].' &pic='.$row['image'].'&name='.$row['username'].'");

}

} else { //If no results found.

echo 'No results match this search query.' ;

}

}



?>
 

I get the following error when i try to run the page (by submitting a form from another page which executes this page):

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/a4993450/public_html/profile_search.php on line 31

The culprit line is this one:
header("Location: search_results.php?friend='.$row['member_id'].'&me='.$_SESSION['id'].' &pic='.$row['image'].'&name='.$row['username'].'");

As you can see, I eliminated all white space between the variables and concatenations, thinking that that was the problem but I keep getting the error message.  I'm at a loss about what to do next.  Any help?

Hello folks, well what I mean by temporary variables are variables like error messages or success messages that appear after a form has been submitted.  I want to be able to kill these variables when the page is refreshed and return the page to its defualt state.  For example, I'm making this simple page which is basically a form that ask users for some information, then upon submit, stores the  in a database and prints a success message.  If the form is filled out incorrectly or some form fields are left blank, then error messages are printed. What I really want is for these messages to disappear when the page is refreshed.  My current model uses a second page to handle the form, and then upon succes or upon encountering an error, redirects to the form page, passing the error or success variables via the url to the form page where they are printed out.  What can I do differently to achieve what I want (ie kill variables upon page refresh)? Below are the form page, and the page that handles the form respectively.

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<form method="post" action="send_email.php">


<div id="contact_form">


<div align="left" class="green18">Contact Us</div> <br/> <br/>


<label>Your Name:</label> <input class="texta" name ="name" size="20"      maxlength="49"/> <br/> <br/>

<div class ="error" style="position:relative;bottom:40px;left:128px" >

<?php //Retrieve the encoded errors string from send_email.php page

$errors_string=$_GET['errors_string'];

//Explode the decoded errors string back to an array.
                
$errors = explode(",", $errors_string);
echo $errors[0];?>

</div>

<label>Your Company Name:</label> <input class="texta" name ="company" size="30" maxlength="66"/> <br/> <br/>


<div class ="error" style="position:relative;bottom:40px;left:128px" >

<?php //Retrieve the encoded errors string from send_email.php page

$errors_string=$_GET['errors_string'];

//Explode the decoded errors string back to an array.
                
$errors = explode(",", $errors_string);
echo $errors[1];?>

</div>

<label>Subject(Optional):</label> <input class="texta" name ="subject" size="20" maxlength="49"/>  <br/> <br/>


<label>Email:</label> <input class="texta" name ="email" size="20" maxlength="49"/>  <br/> <br/>


<div class ="error" style="position:relative;bottom:40px;left:128px" >

<?php //Retrieve the encoded errors string from send_email.php page

$errors_string=$_GET['errors_string'];

//Explode the decoded errors string back to an array.
                
$errors = explode(",", $errors_string);
echo $errors[2];?>

</div>


<label>Message:</label> <textarea style="float:left" class="" name ="message" cols="40" rows="3"> </textarea> <br/> <br/>

<div class ="error" style="position:relative;bottom:-19px;left:-260px" >

<?php //Retrieve the encoded errors string from send_email.php page

$errors_string=$_GET['errors_string'];

//Explode the decoded errors string back to an array.
                
$errors = explode(",", $errors_string);
echo $errors[3];?>

</div>


<button class="button" type ="submit" name ="submit">Submit</button> <br/>

<div id ="sent" >

<?php //Retrieve the user id from send_email.php page

$sent=$_GET['sent'];

$send_msg = urldecode($sent);  echo $send_msg;  ?>

</div> <!--closes sent-->


</div>


</form>
 




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<?php


//address error handling

ini_set ('display_errors', 1);
error_reporting (E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);




if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
 
    $errors = array();


// Connect to the database.

        require('config/config.php');


//Check for errors.


//Check to make sure they entered their name and it's of the right format.

if (eregi ("^([[:alpha:]]|-|')+$", $_POST['name'])) {

        $a = TRUE;

    } else {

        $a = FALSE;

        $errors[0] = '*Please enter a valid name.';


   }



//Check to make sure they entered their company name.

if (!empty ( $_POST['company'])) {

        $b = TRUE;

    } else {

        $b = FALSE;

        $errors[1] = '*Please enter company name.';


   }



//Check to make sure email is valid.

if(eregi("^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$", $_POST['email'])) { 
 

         $c = TRUE; 


}else { 

         $c = FALSE;

      $errors[2] = '*Please enter a valid email address.'; 

      } 




//Check to make sure they entered their message.

if (!empty ( $_POST['message'])) {

        $d = TRUE;

    } else {

        $d = FALSE;

        $errors[3] = '*Please enter your message.';


   }




 

//If no errors

if (empty($errors)) {

//Create variables for all the post values.

 $name = $_POST['name'];

 $company = $_POST['company'];

 $email = $_POST['email'];

 $message = $_POST['message'];

 $ip = $_SERVER[REMOTE_ADDR];

 $date = (date("Y/m/d:G:i:s"));

 $timestamp = ( mktime(date(H), date(i), date(s), date(m) , date(d) , date(Y)));


//Formulate the insert query.

        $query = "INSERT INTO emails ( email_id, name, company, email, message, ip, date,timestamp) VALUES ( 0, '$name','$company','email', '$message', '$ip' , '$date', '$timestamp' )";
       
        $result = mysql_query($query) or die("Data could not be inserted into table because: " .mysql_error());



if (mysql_affected_rows() == 1) {

    
         // Display success message


          $sent_msg =     "Your email has been sent.  We will get back to you shortly.";

$sent = urlencode($sent_msg);  


         // Display contact page

header("Location: contact_page.php?sent=$sent");  exit();

}else{die("There was a problem: " . mysql_error());}
            


//Display error messages.


} else {// if errors array is not empty

//Confer the errors array into a string

$errors_string = implode(",", $errors);

//Encode the imploded string.

$error_message = urlencode($errors_string);


         // Display page

header("Location: contact_page.php?errors_string=$errors_string");  exit();


        
    }//End of if there are errors.


}//End of if submit.




?>



Also, another problem I just noticed is that, the errors[3] variable isn't getting passed back to the form page.  I don't know if it's because the url can only pass so much info to a second page. The page in question can be located he

http://creativewizz.com/contact_page.php

This is a multi page registration form. I want to check the user input from form1.php with preg_match in form2.php then return the users details back into form1 with error messages(e.g $errname) so the user doesn't need to re enter the information.

Neither the error messages or the session variables are shown in form1.php's form. I've echoed out the session variables found that the value makes it to form 2. But the variables are empty when it goes back to form 1.

form1.php

<html>
 <head>
  <title>Register</title>
  <style type="text/css">
   td { vertical-align: top; }
    .errText {
     font-family: Arial;
     font-size: 10px;
     color: #CC0000;
     text-decoration: none;
     font-weight: normal;
    }
  </style>
 </head>
 <body>
  <form action="form2.php" method="post">
   <table>
    <tr>
     <td><label for="name">Username:</label></td>
     <td><input type="text" name="name" id="name" size="20"
       maxlength="20" value="<?php echo $_SESSION['name'];?>"/>
   <?php  if(isset($_POST[$errname])) echo $errname; ?></td>
</tr><tr>
     <td><label for="password">Password:</label></td>
     <td><input type="password" name="password" id="password" size="20"
       maxlength="20" value=""/></td>
    </tr><tr>    
     <td><label for="first_name">First name:</label></td>
     <td><input type="text" name="first_name" id="first_name" size="20"
       maxlength="20" value="<?php echo $_SESSION['first_name'];?>"/>
   <?php  if(isset($_POST[$errfirst])) echo $errfirst; ?></td>
    </tr><tr>
     <td><label for="last_name">Last name:</label></td>
     <td><input type="text" name="last_name" id="last_name" size="20"
       maxlength="20" value="<?php echo $_SESSION['last_name'];?>"/>
   <?php  if(isset($_POST[$errlast])) echo $errlast; ?>
   </td>
    </tr><tr>
     <td><label for="email">Email:</label></td>
     <td><input type="text" name="email" id="email" size="20" maxlength="50"
       value="<?php echo $_SESSION['email'];?>"/>
   <?php  if(isset($_POST[$erremail])) echo $erremail; ?></td>
    </tr><tr>
     <td><label for="address">Address:</label></td>
     <td><input type="text" name="address" id="address" size="20" maxlength="20"
       value="<?php echo $_SESSION['address'];?>"/>
   <?php  if(isset($_POST[$erraddress])) echo $erraddress; ?></td>
    </tr><tr>
     <td><label for="city">City/Town:</label></td>
     <td><input type="text" name="city" id="city" size="20" maxlength="20"
       value="<?php echo $_SESSION['city'];?>"/>
   <?php  if(isset($_POST[$errcity])) echo $errcity; ?></td>
    </tr><tr>
 <td><label for="county">County:</label></td>
     <td><input type="text" name="county" id="county" size="20" maxlength="20"
       value="<?php echo $_SESSION['county'];?>"/>
   <?php  if(isset($_POST[$errcounty])) echo $errcounty; ?></td>
    </tr><tr>
 <td><label for="post">Postcode:</label></td>
     <td><input type="text" name="post" id="post" size="20" maxlength="20"
       value="<?php echo $_SESSION['post'];?>"/>
   <?php  if(isset($_POST[$errpost])) echo $errpost; ?></td>
    </tr><tr>
 <td><label for="home">Home Number:</label></td>
     <td><input type="text" name="home" id="home" size="20" maxlength="20"
       value="<?php echo $_SESSION['home'];?>"/>
   <?php  if(isset($_POST[$errhome])) echo $errhome; ?></td>
    </tr><tr>
 <td><label for="mobile">Mobile:</label></td>
     <td><input type="text" name="mobile" id="mobile" size="20" maxlength="20"
       value="<?php echo $_SESSION['mobile'];?>"/>
   <?php  if(isset($_POST[$errmobile])) echo $errmobile; ?></td>
    </tr><tr>
     <td> </td>
     <td><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Sumbit"/></td>
    </tr>
   </table>
  </form>
 </body>
</html>


form2.php

<?php

//let's start the session
session_start();

//finally, let's store our posted values in the session variables
$_SESSION['name'] = $_POST['name'];
$_SESSION['password'] = $_POST['password'];
$_SESSION['first_name'] = $_POST['first_name'];
$_SESSION['last_name'] = $_POST['last_name'];
$_SESSION['email'] = $_POST['email'];
$_SESSION['address'] = $_POST['address'];
$_SESSION['city'] = $_POST['city'];
$_SESSION['county'] = $_POST['county'];
$_SESSION['post'] = $_POST['post'];
$_SESSION['home'] = $_POST['home'];
$_SESSION['mobile'] = $_POST['mobile'];

$errname     = "";
$errfirst  = "";
$errlast  = "";
$erremail    = "";
$erraddress = "";
$errcity    = "";
$errcounty      = "";
$errpost     = "";
$errhome     = "";
$errmob     = "";
  
if(  preg_match('/^[A-Z][a-zA-Z -]{3,30}+$/',$_SESSION['name']) ) {
$errname = '<p class="errText">Name must be from letters, dashes, spaces and must not start with dash</p>';
}
if(  preg_match('/^[A-Z][a-zA-Z -]{3,30}+$/',$_SESSION['first_name']) ) {
$errfirst = '<p class="errText">Name must be from letters, dashes, spaces and must not start with dash</p>';
}
if(  preg_match('/^[A-Z][a-zA-Z -]{3,30}+$/',$_SESSION['last_name']) ) {
$errlast = '<p class="errText">Name must be from letters, dashes, spaces and must not start with dash</p>';
}
if(  preg_match('/^[a-zA-Z]\w+(\.\w+)*\@\w+(\.[0-9a-zA-Z]+)*\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$/',$_SESSION['email']) ) {
$erremail    = '<p class="errText">This is not a valid email address.';
}
if(  preg_match('/^[a-zA-Z0-9 _.,:\"\']+$/',$_SESSION['address']) ) {
$erraddress = '<p class="errText">Address must be only letters, numbers or one of the following ". , : /"</p>';
}
if(  preg_match('/[a-zA-Z]+/',$_SESSION['city']) ) {
$errcity    = '<p class="errText">Your city must contain a letter.';
}
if(  preg_match('/[a-zA-Z]+/',$_SESSION['county']) ) {
$errcounty      = '<p class="errText">Your county must contain a letter.';
}
if(  preg_match('/(GIR 0AA)|((([A-Z-[QVX]][0-9][0-9]?)|(([A-Z-[QVX]][A-Z-[IJZ]][0-9][0-9]?)|(([A-Z-[QVX]][0-9][A-HJKSTUW])|([A-Z-[QVX]][A-Z-[IJZ]][0-9][ABEHMNPRVWXY])))) [0-9][A-Z-[CIKMOV]]{2})/',$_SESSION['post']) ) {
$errpost     = '<p class="errText">This is not a valid UK Postcode.';
}
if(  preg_match('/s*\(?0\d{4}\)?(\s*|-)\d{3}(\s*|-)(\d{3}\s*)|(\s*\(?0\d{3}\)?(\s*|-)\d{3}(\s*|-)\d{4}\s*)|(\s*)(7|8)(\d{7}|\d{3}(\-|\s{1})\d{4})\s*/',$_SESSION['home']) ) {
$errhome     = '<p class="errText">This is not a valid UK local phone number.';
}
if(  preg_match('/^(\+44\s?7\d{3}|\(?07\d{3}\)?)\s?\d{3}\s?\d{3}$/',$_SESSION['mobile']) ) {
$errmob     = '<p class="errText">This is not a valid UK mobile phone number.';
}


 else{

 $errname     = ($_POST[$errname]);
$errfirst  = ($_POST[$errfirst]);
$errlast  = ($_POST[$errlast]);
$erremail    = ($_POST[$erremail]);
$erraddress = ($_POST[$erraddress]);
$errcity    = ($_POST[$errcity]);
$errcounty      = ($_POST[$errcounty]);
$errpost     = ($_POST[$errpost]);
$errhome     = ($_POST[$errhome]);
$errmob     = ($_POST[$errmob]);
header("Location: form1.php");
exit;

}

?>

Any help appreciated. I think I should buy a professional book, instead of my beginner one.

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