Problems with 'if' statement

[mantrid]

Hello
I have used the following php script in the form action to determine whether
to post the same page again or open the php file called excelsave.php
depending on which of two submit buttons is pressed in the form

<form action="<?php if(isset($updatestats)){
echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
}else{
?>excelsave.php<?php
}?>" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"
name="savestatments">
problem is whatever button is pressed the excel.php is run. what is wrong
with my 'if.. ' statement?

ian

[rallykarro]

Hi,

what do you think about

<form action="<? if(isset($updatestats))
echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
else
echo "excelsave.php";
?>" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"
name="savestatments">

regards,

karolina

mantrid skrev:

Hello
I have used the following php script in the form action to determine whether
to post the same page again or open the php file called excelsave.php
depending on which of two submit buttons is pressed in the form

<form action="<?php if(isset($updatestats)){
echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
}else{
?>excelsave.php<?php
}?>" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"
name="savestatments">
problem is whatever button is pressed the excel.php is run. what is wrong
with my 'if.. ' statement?

ian

[mantrid]

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Hi,

what do you think about

<form action="<? if(isset($updatestats))
echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
else
echo "excelsave.php";
?>" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"
name="savestatments">

regards,

karolina

mantrid skrev:

no sorry that didnt work either
whats a skrev?

[Alvaro G. Vicario]

*** mantrid escribió/wrote (Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:27:45 GMT):

<form action="<?php if(isset($updatestats)){
echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
}else{
?>excelsave.php<?php
}?>" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"
name="savestatments">
problem is whatever button is pressed the excel.php is run. what is wrong
with my 'if.. ' statement?

I find it pretty unlikely that the problem is in the if() part. What makes
you think so? Have you var_dumped() your $_POST array? Does $updatestats
have the correct value?
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[Jerry Stuckle]

mantrid wrote:

Hello
I have used the following php script in the form action to determine whether
to post the same page again or open the php file called excelsave.php
depending on which of two submit buttons is pressed in the form

<form action="<?php if(isset($updatestats)){
echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
}else{
?>excelsave.php<?php
}?>" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"
name="savestatments">
problem is whatever button is pressed the excel.php is run. what is wrong
with my 'if.. ' statement?

ian

Ian,

I think your problem is not the if statement - I suspect $updatestats
isn't being set. What code do you have that sets it?

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[mantrid]

>
I think your problem is not the if statement - I suspect $updatestats
isn't being set. What code do you have that sets it?

That occured to me so I tried

<form action="<?php if(isset($_POST['updatestats'])){

instead of

<form action="<?php if(isset($updatestats)){

but still no luck, but I got round it by getting rid of the 'if' in the form
action and placing them at the top of the page, as below

************************************************** **
if(isset($download)){
header("Location: http://www.mysite.co.uk/excelsave.php");
}

if(isset($updatestats)){
script for creating confirmation version of original page
}

<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post"
enctype="multipart/form-data"name="savestatments">

************************************************** *
However I would still like to know why the first method didnt work.
Thanks all for the support
Ian

[Jerry Stuckle]

mantrid wrote:

>>I think your problem is not the if statement - I suspect $updatestats
isn't being set. What code do you have that sets it?

That occured to me so I tried

<form action="<?php if(isset($_POST['updatestats'])){

instead of

<form action="<?php if(isset($updatestats)){

but still no luck, but I got round it by getting rid of the 'if' in the form
action and placing them at the top of the page, as below

************************************************** **
if(isset($download)){
header("Location: http://www.mysite.co.uk/excelsave.php");
}

if(isset($updatestats)){
script for creating confirmation version of original page
}

<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post"
enctype="multipart/form-data"name="savestatments">

************************************************** *
However I would still like to know why the first method didnt work.
Thanks all for the support
Ian

Ian,

Were you trying to change the action based on a click on the same page?
If so, it won't work.

PHP is server side. By the time the page gets to your browser, PHP has
done its job and ended processing for this page.

Your if statement should work if $_POST['updatestats'] was set when this
page was called. But only then.

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[mantrid]

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mantrid wrote:

>I think your problem is not the if statement - I suspect $updatestats
isn't being set. What code do you have that sets it?

That occured to me so I tried

<form action="<?php if(isset($_POST['updatestats'])){

instead of

<form action="<?php if(isset($updatestats)){

but still no luck, but I got round it by getting rid of the 'if' in the

form

action and placing them at the top of the page, as below

************************************************** **
if(isset($download)){
header("Location: http://www.mysite.co.uk/excelsave.php");
}

if(isset($updatestats)){
script for creating confirmation version of original page
}

<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post"
enctype="multipart/form-data"name="savestatments">

************************************************** *
However I would still like to know why the first method didnt work.
Thanks all for the support
Ian

Ian,

Were you trying to change the action based on a click on the same page?
If so, it won't work.

PHP is server side. By the time the page gets to your browser, PHP has
done its job and ended processing for this page.

Your if statement should work if $_POST['updatestats'] was set when this
page was called. But only then.

Yes silly me that was exactly what I was doing. and it works the second way
because when the page it resent only then does $_POST['updatestats'] have a
value. nice one, thanks
ian