Design Issue

[Terry Murray]

Hi again everyone:

I would like to have a form field exist on two forms at the same time, - if
it is possible.

Basically, I am trying to create a login form that allows the user the
opportunity to see if the "handle" that he has chosen already eixsts or not.
This means that my screen would have 2 buttons. The first button triggers
the code to check the database for the handle, while the second button would
go and perform the actual registration once it has been determined that the
user has selected a unique handle.

Any suggestions. I got a feeling that there is more than 1 way to go about
doing this

My feeling was to have the script contain two parts. The first part simply
checks the handle. If the handle is unique then all the information that
was captured in the first form then gets sent to the next form as hidden
fields. The problem that I see with this approach is that it might be
possible to "capture" username and password information by viewing the
source (i.e. username and password are fields that are on the same form as
the handle).

Terry

[Joe Resudek]

Make 2 forms. When the user checks to see if the handle exists already the
form will load the same page (references itself) but put a hidden field in
the first form so that when the page reloads it checks to see if the user
activated that form (the hidden field will trigger it) and then you can
execute your SQL statement to search and write back to the page. The page
will look exactly the same, except the second time it loads it will know if
the handle is chosen already and can display a message to the effect.

Hope this helps

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Joe Resudek
Frontier New Media
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"Terry Murray" <tgmurray@rogers.com> wrote in message
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> Hi again everyone:
>
> I would like to have a form field exist on two forms at the same time, -

if

> it is possible.
>
> Basically, I am trying to create a login form that allows the user the
> opportunity to see if the "handle" that he has chosen already eixsts or

not.

> This means that my screen would have 2 buttons. The first button triggers
> the code to check the database for the handle, while the second button

would

> go and perform the actual registration once it has been determined that

the

> user has selected a unique handle.
>
> Any suggestions. I got a feeling that there is more than 1 way to go about
> doing this
>
> My feeling was to have the script contain two parts. The first part

simply

> checks the handle. If the handle is unique then all the information that
> was captured in the first form then gets sent to the next form as hidden
> fields. The problem that I see with this approach is that it might be
> possible to "capture" username and password information by viewing the
> source (i.e. username and password are fields that are on the same form as
> the handle).
>
> Terry
>
>
>