Re: Newbie help: Need code snippet ASAP

Create a session, register the variables (1 per field) and do if (isset($f_myfieldLine1)) { print "<input type=text value=\"$f_myfieldLine1\">"; } else { print "<input type=text value=\"To be filled in\">"; } True, you have to do it for each field in the form but with a series of session items you don't have to keep resubmitting all those HIDDEN fields. =) -Szii Peace, love, and code. At 12:27 PM 6/2/00 -0500, Matt McClanahan wrote: >On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Dion Vansevenant wrote: > >> I apologize if this has been asked before, but I am new to PHP and have a >> rather short deadline for a page that needs to be built, so I hope someone >> will be able to help me. >> >> I am working on a form that a user here has to fill out containing variables >> lines of information. This form, when submitted will be emailed to a client >> with a return address for someone else in our company. Don't worry, it's >> perfectly legit and not spam. > ><snip> > >> What I need to do is enable the person filling the form to add as many of >> Lines 1 to 3 as they need, while still retaining any information already >> entered. So the form could look like this: > >This sort of dynamic content isn't easy to do with web pages. One option >I might suggest would be to provide a box where the user can enter how >many groups of Lines 1 to 3 they plan on entering. That way, your form >can generate the desired number of lines. It's not a very elegant >solution from a UI standpoint, of course. I don't know if there's a >better way with DHTML or somesuch, but it'd surprise me. :) > >Anyway, the code for that suggestion would simply be a for loop that spits >out the number of for fields desired. $fieldCount reflects how many >groupings of Lines 1 to 3 they want. > >for( $i = 0; $i < $fieldCount; $i++ ) >{ ?> > Line1: <input type="text" name="line1[]"><br> > Line2: <input type="text" name="line2[]"><br> > Line3: <input type="text" name="line3[]"><br> ><? } > >Which will make three arrays of fields. So your first grouping would be >$line1[0], $line2[0], $line3[0], the second $line1[1], $line2[1], >$line3[1], and so on. > >HTH, >Matt > > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > >