Re: Re: checkboxes

Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 01:38 -0400, PJ wrote: > >> Ashley Sheridan wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 07:17 +0530, kranthi wrote: >>> >>>> yeh an onclick event handler is required to achieve this. but as Shawn >>>> has suggested radio buttons are better in this case. >>>> >>>> but then again if u want to disable/greyout the other input(like >>>> textboxes, other than the radio button itself) u'll hav to use onclick >>>> event handler for the radio buttons >>>> >>>> >>> Not necessarily, you could use CSS to change the background colour: >>> >>> input[checked=checked] >>> { >>> set styles here >>> } >>> >> I see that Shawn's suggested radio buttons will do just fine. I hadn't >> thought about that. Dummy me. >> But the real problem I have is to pass a form input value to a variable. >> For example: >> <input type="text" name="titleIN" size="52" /> >> <input type="radio" name="choice" value="$titleIN" /> >> How can I pass the "text" input to a variable that could be used by the >> "radio" button? >> The idea is to have several inputs for a search page with the inputs >> limited by the radio button to one choice of several inputs. If I can >> get the input to a variable, I can then manipulate it to do a query for >> the search. :-\ >> Hope this is understandable? >> >> -- >> unheralded genius: "A clean desk is the sign of a dull mind. " >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> Phil Jourdan --- pj@ptahhotep.com >> http://www.ptahhotep.com >> http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php >> >> > Just accept all the text inputs from the form, You mean, submit? to the originating page? I'm trying to use $_POST, so action="this_file.php"? Then manipulate the results and pass them to a query and then display on page. Right? > and use a switch on the > radio button to determine which of the text inputs you use. > But how do you use the above - "switch on the radio button" ? > Alternatively, just use one text box for input and use the value of the > radio button to determine what to do with the text. Don't understand this either. I must really be stupid for I have been trying both methods and I just don't know how to deal with this... -- unheralded genius: "A clean desk is the sign of a dull mind. " ------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Jourdan --- pj@ptahhotep.com http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php