[thelist] PHP - centralised processing for multiple forms
der wert
derwert at hotmail.com
Thu Sep 7 03:53:41 CDT 2006
Hi Paul, sorry for the delay when I first saw your email I started coding
which I tend to do sometimes, the result I think is nifty, what I've created
isn't finished but it's at a pretty good stage.
what I created what a single php file that includes a conf file of form(s)
to be created
the config file uses an array to store the configuration of the form to be
generated
here's an example of a one of these config arrays
$form['1']['fields']['Name']['input']=true;
$form['1']['fields']['Name']['regex']='[a-zA-Z ]{1,12}';
$form['1']['fields']['Number']['input']=true;
$form['1']['fields']['Number']['type']='hidden';
$form['1']['fields']['Number']['regex']='[0-9]{1,12}';
$form['1']['fields']['Number']['value']=123;
$form['1']['fields']['Password']['input']=true;
$form['1']['fields']['Password']['type']='password';
$form['1']['fields']['Password']['regex']='[0-9A-Za-z]{1,12}';
$form['1']['fields']['Email']['input']=true;
$form['1']['fields']['Email']['regex']='[a-zA-Z0-9_.]{1,20}@[a-zA-Z0-9_.]{5,20}';
$form['1']['fields']['Phone']['input']=true;
$form['1']['fields']['Phone']['regex']='[0-9+-]';
$form['1']['fields']['Zipcode']['input']=true;
$form['1']['fields']['Zipcode']['regex']='[0-9]{5}';
$form['1']['fields']['Sex']['choices']['M']='M';
$form['1']['fields']['Sex']['choices']['F']='F';
$form['1']['fields']['Sex']['value']='F';
$form['1']['fields']['Sex']['regex']='[MF]{1}';
$form['1']['fields']['Other']['textarea']=true;
$form['1']['fields']['Other']['regex']='[\w\s]{1,32}';
$form['1']['fields']['Gender']['radio']['M']='M';
$form['1']['fields']['Gender']['radio']['F']='F';
$form['1']['fields']['Gender']['value']='F';
$form['1']['fields']['Gender']['regex']='[MF]{1}';
$form['1']['fields']['Send']['input']=true;
$form['1']['fields']['Send']['type']='submit';
$form['1']['fields']['Send']['value']='Send';
$form['1']['action']['confirm']=true;
$form['1']['action']['emailto']='form at example.com';
$form['1']['action']['type']='POST';
you can also choose if you want XHTML or HTML to be generated
what you do is put arrays for the forms in the config file
then in order to put a generated form on your page you would do like so
example.php
<?php
require_once('./header.php');
define('_form', '1'); //this tells it to generate form 1 from the config
file
require_once('./quickforms.php'); //the file that does all the hard work
require_once('./footer.php');
?>
a picture of the end result with a css style sheet applied is as follows
http://tinyurl.com/z6tfn
the form input is determined to be valid or not according to the regex in
the conf file
the point of the project is to the point where you submit the form then it
displays if the data entered was valid or not according to the regex, I've
been busy with school and work so that is why it is not finish as of now,
but I still like the turnout so far, let me know if you'd like the code or
not
D
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