RE: [PHP] Need a PHP clue

Well i'm still not sure if you're planning to do something like remove 3 of the five boxes. However, if you're always going to have five boxes you can just arbitrarily name them Box1, Box2, .. Box5 and then in your php script us variable variables (not a typo) to access them? for example $Input="Box"; for ($i=1; $i<=5; $i++){ $VarName=$Input.$i //Now name should be "Box1" print $$VarName //THis is the same as saying: print $Box1; } I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for Mike -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Chum [mailto:jchum@techdevelopers.com] Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 10:11 AM To: Krznaric Michael Subject: RE: [PHP] Need a PHP clue Yea. At 10:09 AM 8/10/2000 -0400, you wrote: >Are you looking to modify more than one box at a time? > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jonathan Chum [mailto:jchum@techdevelopers.com] >Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 10:04 AM >To: Krznaric Michael >Subject: RE: [PHP] Need a PHP clue > > >Yes, I am using radio buttons for selecting answers to the polls, but >that's not where I'm describing my problem. My problem lies in editing >polls. Basically, I have a text box for the question, and 5 text boxes for >answers. The boxes should be able to edit, modify, remove depending on the >content that lies in the boxes when passed over the PHP script. I was >thinking of something towards using an array to work this out, but can't >put my finger on it. > > >At 09:59 AM 8/10/2000 -0400, you wrote: > >If it's a poll, why are you using text boxes, have you considered radio > >buttons? Or am I missing something here? > > > > > >Mike > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: jchum@techdevelopers.com [mailto:jchum@techdevelopers.com] > >Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 9:35 AM > >To: php-general@lists.php.net > >Subject: [PHP] Need a PHP clue > > > > > >I really need some help with this one guys. > > > >I am trying to create an edit function for my poll script. Modifying > >questions is not a problem, only when it comes to editing, updating, > >and deleting the answers possible for the poll. I'd like to do it in > >one step. > > > >My table is organized with a unique id for each answer to the poll, a > >pollid column which is uses to see which answer will be shown for what > >poll, and the answer it self. > > > >Each poll has a max of 5 questions, so 5 text boxes are created. In > >each text box, the answer is prefilled. Now here's the problem. . . I > >cannot figure out how to pass the info to PHP so that it knows where > >to find the row and do either an update, insert, or delete. > > > >I was trying to have the name tag of each text box be the unique id > >and the value will be an answer to the poll. Problem is that I cannot > >figure how with PHP to know the variable name which is passed and > >hence, I cannot do the tasks needed. > > > >Basically I need to pass some how, an identifier for each of the 5 > >answer text box so I can perform a query using WHERE. > > > >Any ideas? Thanks. > > > >-- > >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > >For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net