Re: task Scheduler driving me crazy!

On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 17:57 +0200, Jochem Maas wrote: > Robert Cummings wrote: > > ... > > >> I'll add the CSS once I can get the form to work properly, and can > >> figure out how to change the color with css based on a certain value > >> stored in a database IE: $rowColor :) > > > > At it's simplest: > > > > '<td class="'.$rowColor.'">' > > ... > if $rowColor is a hex based value using it as a CSS class is not really going to work > that well, in such cases I would opt to use inline css: > > echo '<td style="background:', $rowColor, '">'; Inline CSS is as maintainable as bgcolor. if you're using inline styling then you've missed the point. > >> To the point of the email though, is it just as simple as typing > >> textbox[] and I have an array from the text boxes? :) > > > > Yes, but only if one or more checkboxes get checked. Unchecked > > checkboxes are not sent to the server by the browser. So you need at > > where did the checkboxes come from? I'm sure he was only asking about textboxes. I dunno :) Guess it was so similar to checkboxes and I most often use array syntax in form fields when working with checkboxes that I got confused :B > BUT: Rob is correct, and if you have a number of fields in each row (of which some > might be checkboxes) you are better off adding explicit array indices to the field > element names so that you can explicitly match values for a give row accross multiple > arrays: > > <input type="text" name="text[1]"><input type="checkbox" > name="chk[1]" value="1"> > <input type="text" name="text[2]"><input type="checkbox" > name="chk[2]" value="1"> > > for ($i = 1; isset($_POST['text'][$i]); $i++) { > $text = cleanInput($_POST['text'][$i]); > $chk = isset($_POST['chk'][$i]); // checkboxes are not sent if they are not > checked > } > > > leas one to have an array, but you can just check for existence of your > > incoming data before attempting to access array indexes. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'