[FX.php List] Re-populating $_POST form data

[Gareth Evans]

Here is an example of the way I do forms (although somewhat simplified) but
it may give you a nudge in the right direction. It's also a little more
secure (IMO) than just using $_POST. Don't know if it applies to your
situation though.

http://pastebin.ca/1235983

HTH
-- 
GARETH EVANS


> From: Jonathan Schwartz <jschwartz at exit445.com>
> Reply-To: "FX.php Discussion List" <fx.php_list at mail.iviking.org>
> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:02:49 -0700
> To: "FX.php Discussion List" <fx.php_list at mail.iviking.org>
> Subject: RE: [FX.php List] Re-populating $_POST form data
> 
> Errr...that's what I was attempting to do. Up until now, I used
> $_SESSION variables, and I can't do that in this project.  I assumed
> that you could just set the $_POST variables from FMP query, and once
> set they would display and then POST when the form was submitted
> again.
> 
> No?
> 
> Well...No reason why I can't switch to PLAN C...using regular
> variables. Is that the common wisdom?
> 
> If this were to be done, then, what would the syntax be for setting
> those variables in a loop?  It's the lopping thing that is hanging me
> up.  This is the first time that I'm refusing to write 80 discrete
> statements to set the form variables....in favor of a more elegant
> loop.
> 
>   foreach($findResult['data'] as $key => $value)
> 
> {
> 
> ?????????
> 
> }
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> At 9:27 AM -0700 10/24/08, Troy Meyers wrote:
>> Jonathan,
>> 
>> Are you really wanting to SET the $_POST variables? Don't you want
>> to be reading them out of the incoming POST (or perhaps a find
>> result) into a variable array and input fields for display and
>> re-posting when the form is submitted?
>> 
>> Putting them into $_POST isn't going to propagate them to the next page.
>> 
>> Maybe I'm misunderstanding your goal here.
>> 
>> -Troy
>> 
>> 
>>>  I don't think you need the extra [$key], since the values have already
>>>  been pulled out of the array:
>>> 
>>> foreach($findResult['data'] as $key => $value)
>>> 
>>> {
>>> 
>>> $_POST[$key] = $value[0];
>>> 
>>> }
>>> 
>>>  Andrew Denman
>> 
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