can you do this?

im assuming you can but im not sure and i can't seem to get it to work but i want the aciton of a form to go to a function that checks it for completeness.

action="checkForm()"

checkForm()
{
if ($isset($var)) :
...
}

something to that effect...

the action command inside a form tag is client side and the function is php, so you cant actually do that

I guess what you're trying to do is to check the validity of a form BEFORE sending it to the server side.

For that, you can use some javascript

i.e. :
function checkItOut() {
whatever statement;
if (notVerified)
return false;
else
return true;
}


And validate the form before it gets sent to the server

i.e. : <form onSubmit="return checkItOut();">

ciao!

what about action="<? checkForm() ?>"????

Nop!

you cannot do <form action="<? action() ?>">
It is not on the same side of the network.

The form tag is processed by the browser (client side) and
the <? action() ?> is processed on the server side.

Actually, you COULD write <form action="<? action() ?>"> but the result will not be as expected (the action() function will not validate the form). It will only put nothing in the action tag.

So the browser will parse <form action=""> and send the whole form to the curent page (but to the server.)

But maybe you would like to try passing a hidden form field to the script you're calling (if action="" => curent page script) with the function name (i.e. <input type="hidden" name="funct" value="action").

And then, in the script that receive that form, you could call the desired function with something similar to :

$funcName = $HTTP_POST_VARS["funct"];
if (function_exists($funcName)) $funcName();

hope that will help !

ciao!