• From: My mom's womb
  • Registered: 2004-03-21
  • Posts: 137

Topic: $form in profile.php

Hmmm, seems I lack some knowledge in php.
I'm trying to split the name field in the profile update view:

...
                        <legend><?php echo $lang_profile['Personal details legend'] ?></legend>
                        <div class="infldset">
                            <input type="hidden" name="form_sent" value="1" />
                            <label class="conl"><?php echo $lang_common['First name'] ?><br /><input type="text" name="form[first_name]" value="<?php echo pun_htmlspecialchars(substr($user['realname'],0,strpos($user['realname'],' '))) ?>" size="25" maxlength="25" /><br /></label>  <!--realname mod -->
                            <label class="conl"><?php echo $lang_common['Last name'] ?><br /><input type="text" name="form[last_name]" value="<?php echo pun_htmlspecialchars(substr($user['realname'],strpos($user['realname'],' ')+1,strlen($user['realname']))) ?>" size="25" maxlength="25" /><br /></label>  <!--realname mod -->
                            <p class="clearb"></p> <!--realname mod-->
<?php if (isset($title_field)): ?>                    <?php echo $title_field ?>
<?php endif; ?>                            <label><?php echo $lang_profile['Location'] ?><br /><input type="text" name="form[location]" value="<?php echo pun_htmlspecialchars($user['location']) ?>" size="30" maxlength="30" /><br /></label>
                            <label><?php echo $lang_profile['Website'] ?><br /><input type="text" name="form[url]" value="<?php echo pun_htmlspecialchars($user['url']) ?>" size="50" maxlength="80" /><br /></label>
                        </div>
...

This works fine alright.
So i look for all occurances of the field 'realname' in profile.php, but only finds one other place it's used (other than in the preview mode) and this is here:

        case 'personal':
        {
            $form = extract_elements(array('realname', 'url', 'location'));

now, this is weird. Shouldn't $form do some updating on the database or something??
I tried to add the fields 'first_name' and 'last_name' in the stead of 'realname' in the extract_elements params, but that didn't work.

I'd like to find a way to join the first_name and last_name fields into realname and put them into the database field that corresponds to $user['realname'].
Like this:

$form['realname'] = pun_trim($form['first_name'])." ".pun_trim($form['last_name']);

But that just won't work. (I feel like an idiot).

Is there a way to achieve what I want?

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  • From: My mom's womb
  • Registered: 2004-03-21
  • Posts: 137

Re: $form in profile.php

Ok, I succeded to fix it. I used the $_POST variable instead. I.e. I sent the data using name="first_name" and name="last_name" and joined them with

        case 'personal':
        {
            $form = extract_elements(array('url', 'location'));
            $form['realname'] = pun_trim($_POST['first_name'])." ".pun_trim($_POST['last_name']);

That did the trick.
But how the $form variable updates the database is still a mystery for me.

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