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PHP

Posted by Paco Torres
Paco Torres
8,450 Points

Re-Displaying the Submission

When I submit the form with an invalid email, all the values I entered get preserved but the message. I don't understand why the message does not appear.

This is the beginning of my code:

if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {
    $name = trim($_POST["name"]);
    $email = trim($_POST["email"]);
    $message = trim($_POST["message"]);

<form method="post" action="contact.php">
                            <table>
                                <tr>
                                    <th>
                                        <label for="name">Name</label>
                                    </th>
                                    <td>
                                        <input type="text" name="name" id="name" value="<?php if (isset($name)) { echo $name; } ?>">
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <th>
                                        <label for="email">Email</label>
                                    </th>
                                    <td>
                                        <input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="<?php if (isset($email)) { echo $email; } ?>">
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <th>
                                        <label for="message">Message</label>
                                    </th>
                                    <td>
                                        <textarea name="message" id="message"><?php if (isset($message)) { echo $message; } ?></textarea>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr style="display: none;">
                                    <th>
                                        <label for="address">Address</label>
                                    </th>
                                    <td>
                                        <input type="text" name="address" id="address">
                                        <p>Humans (and frogs): please, leave this field blank.</p>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                            </table>
                            <input type="submit" value="Send">
                        </form>

Thank you!

2 Answers

Paco Torres
Paco Torres
8,450 Points
Paco Torres
Paco Torres
8,450 Points

I'm sorry. I tried to format my question, but I did not success.

Updated: I success.

Paco Torres
Paco Torres
8,450 Points
Paco Torres
Paco Torres
8,450 Points

Solved! It was a silly little mistake:

if ($name == "" OR $email == "" OR $message = "") {
        $error_message = "You must specify a value for name, email address and message.";
    }

I wrote $message = "" instead of $message == ""