Re: Arrays and Textareas

From: Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 18:21:59 +0000
Subject: Re: Arrays and Textareas
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Perfect solution sitting right in front of me, thank you. Now a secondary question though... You can pass text fields through pages by just using hidden form fields, does anyone have a recommendation on how to do this for textareas? Thanks again, Wes > > Your input and textarea names are the same (tocElement). Try something > like tocElement_input and tocElement_textarea to separate them. You can > also 'force' the array to match, like this: > > inputs: > > tocElement_input[1] > tocElement_input[2] > tocElement_input[3] > tocElement_input[4] > > tocElement_textarea[1] > tocElement_textarea[2] > tocElement_textarea[3] > tocElement_textarea[4] > > The numbers can be generated by an index in a loop that you generate the > number of fields with. > > On the submit page, when looping through the count of one array (either > one), just use the same index number to get the value of the other array. > > BTW, I don't know if it hurts to use single quotes in HTML parameters, but > I think it's good code to use doubles. > > Hans > > On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Weston Houghton wrote: > >> >> Hey, >> >> I'm trying to generate a dynamic number of input fields, each input field >> with an associated textarea. If they were all input fields, I could throw >> each field into an array. However, when I throw a textarea into the picture, >> it seems to screw with the array elements. >> >> You can see this at: >> http://mandalay.anapraxis.com/dev/adm_tocstart.php >> >> If you want to see the code, you can view any of the pages as *.txt >> >> I would appreciate any recommendations on how to approach this from here. >> >> Wes >> >> >> >>

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