Re: Generating forms using OOP

Hi Tom, Thanks it now works, ...... Best regards, Davy Obdam mailto:info@davyobdam.com Tom Rogers wrote:

Hi, Saturday, December 7, 2002, 9:43:47 AM, you wrote: DO> Hi People, DO> I ve just started with some OOP programming in PHP and now i have to DO> build a set of classes that can generate a html form.. But i have a DO> problem with the <select><option></option></select> thing.... DO> I hope someone can help me here or give me some pointers,... any help is DO> apreciated. Here is a part of my code : DO> class selectField extends formElement {

DO>     //Constructor
DO>     function selectField($name, $value) {
DO>         formElement::setName($name);
DO>         formElement::setValue($value);
DO>     }

DO>     function generateSelectField() {
DO>         $theOutput = "<select name=\"".$this->name."\">\n";
DO>         foreach($this->value as $key=>$val) {
DO>             $theOutput .= "<option value=\"".$this->>value."\">".$this->value."</option>\n";
DO>         }
DO>         $theOutput .= "</select>\n";
DO>         Return $theOutput;
DO>     }

DO> } DO> This is how i call the Object: DO> $test[] = "Test1"; DO> $test[] = "Test2"; DO> $test[] = "Test3"; DO> $test[] = "Test4"; DO> $test[] = "Test5"; DO> $select = new selectField("testje", $test); echo$select->>generateSelectField(); DO> But all i get is a select box with the word Array in it 5 times...Thanks DO> for your time... DO> Best regards, DO> Davy Obdam DO> mailto:info@davyobdam.com The output function is wrong it should be function generateSelectField() {

       $theOutput = "<select name=\"".$this->name."\">\n";
       foreach($this->value as $key=>$val) {
           $theOutput .= "<option value=\"".$val."\">".$val."</option>\n"; //this line
       }
       $theOutput .= "</select>\n";
       Return $theOutput;

}