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Re: Newbie: Displaying a 'message box' [message #169791 is a reply to message #169788]

Sun, 26 September 2010 23:34

sheldonlg
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Registered: September 2010

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On 9/26/2010 7:13 PM, Richard Holmes wrote:
> After a user has submitted a form I would like to display a message
> from a PHP function to acknowledge the input if the form is entered
> correctly or an error message if the input is incorrect. I've searched
> Google and the PHP manual but I haven't found an equivalent to a
> 'message box'. Any suggestions? TIA!
>
> Dick

Have the top of the page do a $msg = $_GET['msg']; and have the php
doing the processing send a ?msg=whatever_the_message_is after the page
name in the header("Location:......) directive.

Then, on your page you process that value using normal HTML (for example
as a textarea with readonly properties) or as the input to an inline
javscript that will put up an alert if there is some value received and
not be invoked at all if $msg is not set.

What I do is have a message at the top of the page, no surrounding box,
which is invoked only if $msg is set:

if (isset($msg)) echo $msg;

or

if (strlen($msg) > 0) echo $msg;

Of course you can put all that inside a <span></span> where you will
define print properties such as color, size, alignment, etc.

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Shelly

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		Newbie: Displaying a 'message box' By: Richard Holmes on Sun, 26 September 2010 23:13
		Re: Newbie: Displaying a 'message box' By: Marious Barrier on Sun, 26 September 2010 23:17
		Re: Newbie: Displaying a 'message box' By: sheldonlg on Sun, 26 September 2010 23:34
		Re: Newbie: Displaying a 'message box' By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 27 September 2010 00:58
		Re: Newbie: Displaying a 'message box' By: Denis McMahon on Mon, 27 September 2010 01:53

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