[thelist] Multi-Part Forms

[Chris W. Parker]

RUST Randal <mailto:RRust at COVANSYS.com> wrote:

> Erik Mattheis said:
>
> > The strategy I prefer for multi-page forms would be to
> > validate builderAdd1.php at the top of builderAdd2.php,
>
> Yes, I *could* do that, but here is why I don't want to.  I want to
> provide specific error messages for each field that has an error. So
> I have things like this:

you can do that. that's not a problem.

i do it like this... (in vbscript) (ultra-pseudo code)

<form ...>
<input ... name="myvar1" value="<%= myVar1 %>">
<span class="error"><%= errMyVar1 %></span>
<submit>
</form>

go to next page.
retrieve values and check them.
  they are not valid so we will redirecto the previous page...

firstpage.asp?errMyVar1=you+suck+try+again&myVar1=<whatever_they_entered
>

when firstpage.asp loads it will retrieve the value that was entered and
stick it in. it will also display the error message by retrieving it
from the query string.

chris.