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    copied!<p>The issue is that when the second form is displayed the validation doesn't happen the way I need. Irrespective of I have a value or not in <code>TextBoxEntry</code> I get the message <code>Saved</code>. Ideally if the text box is not empty then only I should have the message <code>Saved</code> but even if I don't have anything I get the message <code>Saved</code></p> <p>Can someone pls help?</p> <p>Thanks</p> <p>Here is the code:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php SESSION_start(); include ("../connection/index.php"); ?&gt; &lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt; &lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt;&lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;div id="One"&gt; &lt;form name="form1" method="post" action=""&gt; &lt;?php $SQLbrands="SELECT * FROM brands"; $runBrands=mysqli_query($db, $SQLbrands) or die ("SQL Error"); $noRow=mysqli_num_rows($runBrands); $brndTable = "&lt;table border='1' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='1' id='brndTable1' class='brndTable1'&gt;"; $brndTable .= "&lt;thead&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th class='brT11'&gt;Brand Name&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th class='brT21'&gt;Variant&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th class='brT31'&gt;SKU&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th class='brT41'&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/thead&gt;"; $brndTable .= "&lt;tbody&gt;"; while ($reK = mysqli_fetch_array($runBrands)) { $wec = $reK['id']; $wec2 = $reK['bvariant']; $wec3 = $reK['bsku']; $brndTable .= "&lt;tbody class='colormine'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;"; $brndTable .= "&lt;td class='brT1'&gt;".$reK["name"]."&lt;/td&gt;"; $brndTable .= "&lt;td class='brT2'&gt;".$reK["address"]."&lt;/td&gt;"; $brndTable .= "&lt;td class='brT3'&gt;".$reK["tphone"]."&lt;/td&gt;"; $brndTable .= "&lt;td class='brT4'&gt;&lt;input type='checkbox' name='checkedMe[]' value='$wec' /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;"; $brndTable .= "&lt;/tr&gt;"; } $brndTable .= "&lt;/tbody&gt;"; $brndTable .= "&lt;/table&gt;"; echo $brndTable; ?&gt; &lt;input type="submit" name="sendone" id="sendone" value="OneClick"&gt; &lt;/form&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div id="two"&gt; &lt;?php if(isset($_POST['sendone'])) { if(!isset($_POST['checkedMe'])) {echo 'No check boxes are selected!'; return;} else { $mohan = "&lt;form method='post' action=''&gt;&lt;table border='1' id='myTad' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='2'&gt; &lt;tr class='tabColor'&gt; &lt;td&gt;Name&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;Address&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;Phone&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;"; foreach($_POST['checkedMe'] as $checkedMe) { $checkedMe=mysqli_real_escape_string($db,$checkedMe); $QR = "SELECT bname, bvariant, bsku FROM brands WHERE id='$checkedMe'"; $rr = mysqli_query($db,$QR) or die ("SQL Error"); $roV = mysqli_num_rows($rr); $rr = $rr-&gt;fetch_assoc(); $mohan .= "&lt;tr class='sc_eght' &gt;&lt;td class='sc_five'&gt;".$rr['bname']." ".$rr['bvariant']." ".$rr['bsku']; $mohan .="&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;textarea style='width:80px;' name='schema[]' id='vtext' class='sc_one' rows='1' cols='1' maxlength='100'&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;input style='width:80px;' type='text' name='TextBoxEntry[]' id='vtext' class='sc_two' size='80' maxlength='5'&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;"; } $mohan .= "&lt;input type='submit' name='sendMe' id='sendMe' value='Save'&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/form&gt;"; $_SESSION['cb'] = $mohan; } if(isset($_SESSION['cb'])) echo $_SESSION['cb']; } if(isset($_POST['sendMe'])) { if(!(isset($_POST['TextBoxEntry']) || $_POST['TextBoxEntry'] == '')) {echo $_SESSION['cb']; echo "Empty!"; return;} else { echo $_SESSION['cb']; echo "Saved!"; return;} } ?&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre>
 

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