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I have a little problem with my if(isset($_POST['submit'])) code. What I want is some echos and a table to not appear when the script is open but I do want it to show when the submit button for the form has been clicked. The problem is though that when I include the if(isset($_POST['submit'])) function, when I click on the submit button it does not display the echos and the table at all. Why is this and can you help me out with this issue please.
Below is the code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Exam Interface</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
<p><strong>NOTE: </strong>If a search box is left blank, then the form will search for all data under that specific field</p>
<form action="exam_interface.php" method="post" name="sessionform"> <!-- This will post the form to its own page"-->
<p>Session ID: <input type="text" name="sessionid" /></p> <!-- Enter Session Id here-->
<p>Module Number: <input type="text" name="moduleid" /></p> <!-- Enter Module Id here-->
<p>Teacher Username: <input type="text" name="teacherid" /></p> <!-- Enter Teacher here-->
<p>Student Username: <input type="text" name="studentid" /></p> <!-- Enter User Id here-->
<p>Grade: <input type="text" name="grade" /></p> <!-- Enter Grade here-->
<p>Order Results By: <select name="order">
<option value="ordersessionid">Session ID</option>
<option value="ordermoduleid">Module Number</option>
<option value="orderteacherid">Teacher Username</option>
<option value="orderstudentid">Student Username</option>
<option value="ordergrade">Grade</option>
</select>
<p><input type="submit" value="Submit" /></p>
</form>
<?php
$username="xxx";
$password="xxx";
$database="mobile_app";
mysql_connect('localhost',$username,$password);
@mysql_select_db($database) or die("Unable to select database");
$sessionid = isset ($_POST['sessionid']) ? $_POST['sessionid'] : "";
$moduleid = isset ($_POST['moduleid']) ? $_POST['moduleid'] : "";
$teacherid = isset ($_POST['teacherid']) ? $_POST['teacherid'] : "";
$studentid = isset ($_POST['studentid']) ? $_POST['studentid'] : "";
$grade = isset ($_POST['grade']) ? $_POST['grade'] : "";
$orderfield = isset ($_POST['order']) ? $_POST['order'] : "";
$sessionid = mysql_real_escape_string($sessionid);
$moduleid = mysql_real_escape_string($moduleid);
$teacherid = mysql_real_escape_string($teacherid);
$studentid = mysql_real_escape_string($studentid);
$grade = mysql_real_escape_string($grade);
switch ($orderfield) {
case 'ordersessionid': $orderfield = 'gr.SessionId';
break;
case 'ordermoduleid': $orderfield = 'm.ModuleId';
break;
case 'orderteacherid': $orderfield = 's.TeacherId';
break;
case 'orderstudentid': $orderfield = 'gr.StudentId';
break;
case 'ordergrade': $orderfield = 'gr.Grade';
break;
}
$ordertable = $orderfield;
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM Module m INNER JOIN Session s ON m.ModuleId = s.ModuleId JOIN Grade_Report gr ON s.SessionId = gr.SessionId JOIN Student st ON gr.StudentId = st.StudentId WHERE ('$sessionid' = '' OR gr.SessionId = '$sessionid') AND ('$moduleid' = '' OR m.ModuleId = '$moduleid') AND ('$teacherid' = '' OR s.TeacherId = '$teacherid') AND ('$studentid' = '' OR gr.StudentId = '$studentid') AND ('$grade' = '' OR gr.Grade = '$grade') ORDER BY $ordertable ASC");
$num=mysql_numrows($result);
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
echo "<p>Your Search: <strong>Session ID:</strong> "; if (empty($sessionid))echo "'All Sessions'"; else echo "'$sessionid'";echo ", <strong>Module ID:</strong> "; if (empty($moduleid))echo "'All Modules'"; else echo "'$moduleid'";echo ", <strong>Teacher Username:</strong> "; if (empty($teacherid))echo "'All Teachers'"; else echo "'$teacherid'";echo ", <strong>Student Username:</strong> "; if (empty($studentid))echo "'All Students'"; else echo "'$studentid'";echo ", <strong>Grade:</strong> "; if (empty($grade))echo "'All Grades'"; else echo "'$grade'"; "</p>";
echo "<p>Number of Records Shown in Result of the Search: <strong>$num</strong></p>";
echo "<table border='1'>
<tr>
<th>Student Id</th>
<th>Forename</th>
<th>Session Id</th>
<th>Grade</th>
<th>Mark</th>
<th>Module</th>
<th>Teacher</th>
</tr>";
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>" . $row['StudentId'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['Forename'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['SessionId'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['Grade'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['Mark'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['ModuleName'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['TeacherId'] . "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";
}
mysql_close();
?>
</body>
</html>
Any help will be much appreciated, Thank You.
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Use isset() method in PHP to test the form is submitted successfully or not. In the code, use isset() function to check $_POST['submit'] method. Remember in place of submit define the name of submit button. After clicking on submit button this action will work as POST method.
The isset() function checks whether a variable is set, which means that it has to be declared and is not NULL. This function returns true if the variable exists and is not NULL, otherwise it returns false.
You can use the “isset” function on any variable to determine if it has been set or not. You can use this function on the $_POST array to determine if the variable was posted or not. This is often applied to the submit button value, but can be applied to any variable.
You need to give your submit <input> a name or it won't be available using $_POST['submit']:
<p><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit" /></p>
What you're checking
if(isset($_POST['submit']))
but there's no variable name called "submit".
well i want you to understand why it doesn't works.
lets imagine if you give your submit button name delete
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="delete" /> and check if(isset($_POST['delete'])) then it works in this code you didn't give any name to submit button and checking its exist or not with isset(); function so php didn't find any variable like "submit" so its not working now try this :
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
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