On Paul Jones' weblog today, there's a posting covering one of the banes of PHP life - form processing/handling.

He refers to this other entry for some of the items mentioned. He also provides some personall opinions on how forms can best be processes, including allowing inserting default user information to make entry easier, separating out the content (form fields) from the display (a good idea anyway), and using scripts like HTML_QuickForm to help generate the form. Using a Data/Model/View separation method for the form, life will be so much simpler down the road when those inevitable changes will occur...