Re: Generating forms using OOP

Hi Peter, Thanks for your help, but in this case i ve to build everythng up from the ground. Next time i`ll definatly take a look at smarty. It works now.. Best regards, Davy Obdam mailto:info@davyobdam.com Peter J. Schoenster wrote:

On 7 Dec 2002 at 0:43, Davy Obdam wrote:

I ve just started with some OOP programming in PHP and now i have to build a set of classes that can generate a html form.. But i have a problem with the <select><option></option></select> thing.... I hope someone can help me here or give me some pointers,... any help is apreciated. Here is a part of my code : class selectField extends formElement { //Constructor function selectField($name, $value) {

       formElement::setName($name);
       formElement::setValue($value);

} function generateSelectField() {

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

} } This is how i call the Object: $test[] = "Test1"; $test[] = "Test2"; $test[] = "Test3"; $test[] = "Test4"; $test[] = "Test5"; $select = new selectField("testje", $test); echo$select->generateSelectField(); But all i get is a select box with the word Array in it 5 times...Thanks for your time...

Below is an example that works. I don't know from formElement. But why, why in the world do you REALLY want to do this? Have you truly used and understood smarty and yet felt this must be done? I haven't. http://smarty.php.net/ It lets you focus on your application. Peter <?php // require_once 'selectField.php'; $test[] = "Yea, this works"; $test[] = "No trouble mate"; $test[] = "Test3"; $test[] = "Test4"; $test[] = "Test5"; $select = new selectField("testje", $test); echo $select->generateSelectField(); class selectField { var $name; var $value; function selectField($name, $value) {

       $this->name = $name;
       $this->value = $value;

} function generateSelectField() {

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

} } ?>