Hi,

I have a contact form that uses $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] when the user clicks the submit button which works ok, but the validation messages/checks are exectuted even before the user has clicked the submit button.

Why is this?

Thanks,

You probably don't have your code in a conditional statement? Otherwise everything will get executed.

What I usually do is have the user submit the form and then write any errors to a variable which I call $error.

PHP Code:

<?php if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
//validate the form stuff
}
if(!isset($_POST['submit']) || isset($error)){
//display the form, use sticky values to keep important stuff if there's an error
}
?>

Thanks for the error suggestion It didn't work because I wasn't checking the correct $_POST element, I changed it to 'submit' and it worked.

Thanks,