I am currently trying to create a website for my church in which we can select songs for the songlist each week. We choose 6 songs and I am wanting to set up multiple forms one one page to allow different criteria to be selected and each song to be pulled individually and then I will create a master submit at the bottom which will pull the data from all 6 forms to generate the final data.
Below is sample data of just entering a song and artist on a 2 form test, but the problem is when I submit 1, the other one empties. I need all the data to stay so that once all 6 are filled in the master submit can grab all the data that has been posted. Please shed any insight you can.
<?PHP
$Artist1 = $Song1 ="";
if (($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") and isset($_POST["submit1"]) )
{
if (empty($_POST["Artist1"]))
{
$Artist1 = "";
} else
{
$Artist1 = test_input($_POST["Artist1"]);
}
if (empty($_POST["Song1"]))
{
$Song1 = "";
} else
{
$Song1 = test_input($_POST["Song1"]);
}
}
?>
<form method="post" action="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]);?>">
Artist: <input type="text" name = "Artist1" value="<?php echo $Artist1;?>">
<br>
Song: <input type="text" name = "Song1" value="<?php echo $Song1;?>">
<br>
<input type = "submit" name = "submit1" value="Submit1">
</form>
<?php
echo "<h2>Your song </h2>";
echo $Artist1;
echo "<br>";
echo $Song1;
?>
<?PHP
$Artist2 = $Song2 ="";
if (($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") and isset($_POST["submit2"]) )
{
if (empty($_POST["Artist2"]))
{
$Artist2 = "";
} else
{
$Artist2 = test_input($_POST["Artist2"]);
}
if (empty($_POST["Song2"]))
{
$Song2 = "";
} else
{
$Song2 = test_input($_POST["Song2"]);
}
}
?>
<form method="post" action="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]);?>">
Artist: <input type="text" name = "Artist2" value="<?php echo $Artist2;?>">
<br>
Song: <input type="text" name = "Song2" value="<?php echo $Song2;?>">
<br>
<input type = "submit" name = "submit2" value="Submit2">
</form>
<?php
echo "<h2>Your song </h2>";
echo $Artist2;
echo "<br>";
echo $Song2;
function test_input($data) {
$data = trim($data);
$data = stripslashes($data);
$data = htmlspecialchars($data);
return $data;
}
?>
In HTML if you have a form with an action property when you click on submit the browser will do a POST to the action webpage you set. There it's no way to do what you need in that way.
You have three solutions: