tutorials/php_validation/sample_form.html

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heading: Sample Form
breadcrumbs:
  - Tutorials,/tutorials/
  - PHP Validation,/tutorials/php_validation/
  - Sample Form
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categories: tutorial
tags: validation
---

{% include open_section.html nav='nav_tutorial_php_validation.html' selected='sample_form' nav_width=4 %}

	<p>
		All right! Now let's look at a simple one-page form to which we're going to add our
		validation. Adding validation to a page is the same for single or multi-page forms -
		to the information read here is directly transferrable to any API form.
	</p>

	<p>
		As mentioned earlier, at this point we're assuming that it's already been configured
		with the API and the form submissions are being added to Form Tools.
	</p>

	<p>
		Here's the entire PHP and HTML of our form. It's just a simple "comments" form with four fields:
		subject, name, email and comments.
	</p>

{% codemirror php %}
<?php
require_once("path/to/form_tools/global/api/api.php");
$fields = ft_api_init_form_page("X"); // X would be your form ID
$params = array(
  "submit_button" => "sbmt",
"next_page" => "thanks.php",
"form_data" => $_POST,
"finalize" => true
);
ft_api_process_form($params);
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>
	<title>Sample Form</title>
</head>
<body>

<form method="post" action="<?=$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]?>">

Subject: <select name="subject">
	<option value=""
	<?php if ($fields["subject"] == "") echo "selected"; ?>>Please Select</option>
	<option value="General Comment"
	<?php if ($fields["subject"] == "General Comment") echo "selected"; ?>>General Comment</option>
	<option value="Bug Report"
	<?php if ($fields["subject"] == "Bug Report") echo "selected"; ?>>Bug Report</option>
	<option value="Feature Suggestion"
	<?php if ($fields["subject"] == "Feature Suggestion") echo "selected"; ?>>Feature Suggestion</option>
</select><br />
Name: <input type="text" name="fullname"
			 value="<?=htmlspecialchars($fields["fullname"])?>" /><br />
Email: <input type="text" name="email" value="<?=htmlspecialchars($fields["email"])?>" /><br />
Comments: <textarea name="comments"><?=$comments?></textarea>

<input type="submit" name="sbmt" value="Submit Form" />

</form>

</body>
</html>
{% endcodemirror %}

{% include close_section.html %}