[FX.php List] Best Practices for Forms

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

Make sure you do not have any print, print_r or echo above any header
stuff, it will behave badly such as headers already sent...

ggt667

On 7/17/06, Derrick Fogle <derrick at fogles.net> wrote:
> This is getting pretty far off-topic, but...
>
> I first learned database-to-web scripting with Lasso. At the time,
> Lasso didn't have functions, but the methodology was to use includes
> where functions are often used in PHP. When I switched to PHP
> (without any training at all), I was a lot less frustrated using
> includes instead of functions simply because I never seemed to be
> able to keep the function parameters matched, and I seemed to always
> need to get a lot of data both in and out of functions.
>
> Other PHP coders are horrified when they find out how I tend to abuse
> includes, but... it works for me. It seems to be a lot easier to work
> on smaller modular files than one huge file anyway (at least in my
> text editor).
>
> On Jul 17, 2006, at 3:15 PM, Dale Bengston wrote:
>
> > This is my approach as well, although I would not call it abuse. ;-)
> >
> > Dale Bengston
> >
> > On Jul 17, 2006, at 3:47 PM, Derrick Fogle wrote:
> >
> >> I use a lot of (actually, I abuse them) includes, too; you only
> >> need the session_start() on the 'root' page that generates
> >> headers. All the included files automatically inherit the parent
> >> file's variables, kinda like a function with a global (everything)
> >> in it.
> >>
> >> On Jul 17, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thanks Gjermund,
> >>>
> >>> To be honest, I have been unsuccessful getting sessions to work
> >>> at all up to this point.  I get the dreaded "Headers already
> >>> loaded" error....and I'm sure I know why.  I know about the rule
> >>> of placing the command at the very top of the page.  However, I
> >>> use a lot includes, and I've figured out that you can not put the
> >>> session_start()  command on any of the included pages because
> >>> they load after the base page had been loaded. Thus, the error.
> >>>
> >>> I think that I will have another try at it.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks.
> >>>
> >>> Jonathan
> >>>
> >>> At 8:42 PM +0200 7/17/06, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:
> >>>> option 2 is the way to go
> >>>>
> >>>> Look up: session_start()
> >>>>
> >>>> Do FMNew
> >>>> keep the -recid of current record in _SESSION variable
> >>>> and do FMEdit on the next pages submitted.
> >>>>
> >>>> ggt667
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>>
> >>> Jonathan Schwartz
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> >> Derrick Fogle
> >> derrick at fogles.net
> >>
> >>
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