Question

Here’s my problem:
I have two forms on the same page.
The first form works fine.
But whenever I click the submit button on the second form, I get two notices.
The first says “undefined index: email” which is referring to “$email = $_POST[“email”];” in my coding.
The second says “undefined index: password” which is referring to “$password = $_POST[“password”];” in my coding.
I do not want my 2nd form to be affected by all the “if statements” I created for the first form. And I’m going to be creating more “if statements” for the 2nd form soon.
For example, when I hit the submit button on the second form, it’s echoing “You need to enter an email and password” which is an error I only wanted applied to the first form.

So MY QUESTION IS: How can I get the forms to only be affected by a specific group of “if statements”? Like in css coding you apply ids, but what would i do to the forms or “if statements” so the “if statements” only affect specific forms?

Here’s the coding:

<form action="login.php" method="post">
        <ul id="login">
            //login information
            <li id="loginn">
                <input type="submit" value="Log in">
            </li>
        </ul>
</form>

 <form action="" method="post"> 
        <ul id="register">
                     //register info list items
                             <li>
                <input type="submit" value="Sign up">
            </li>
        </ul>
</form>

<?php

if (empty($_POST) === false) {
$email = $_POST["email"];
$password = $_POST["password"];

if (empty($email) === true || empty($password) === true) {
    $errors[] = "You need to enter an email and password.";
} else if (user_exists($email) === false) {
    $errors[] = "The email you entered is not in our records. Have you registered?";
} else if (user_active($email) === false) {
    $errors[] = "Go to your email, open the email we sent you,and activate your account.";
} else {$login = login($email, $password);
    if ($login === false) {
        $errors[] = "That email/password combination is incorrect.";
    } else {
        $_SESSION['users_id'] = $login;
        header('Location: homepage.php');
        exit();
    }
}

} 

if (empty($errors) === false) {

?>

<?php
echo output_errors($errors);
}
?>

Answer 1

You could add a <hidden> form field with the form’s name:

  <input type="hidden" name="formname" value="form1">

Then, in the PHP, use that to discern the forms:

  if ($_POST['formname'] == "form1") {
      // ifs for first form
  }

(Note there is no error checking whatsoever in this code!)