I'm not sure if the relevant RFC's covered this. When I used Netlink,
it kept the incoming fields in the form order. I could do things like
have hidden data fields (between logical blocks of information) that
contained lines "---------------" or hidden fields that had titles
for a section, this would visually help organize the information in
the email, making it easier for the end user to read the data.
Thanks for the idea.
Bill
At 13:55 11/21/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Thanks for the tip.
I wanted to setup a generic & simple form processing. When someone
fills out any form, it sends an email to the owner of the website
with the list of plain English field names and the data in the
logical order of the form. I guess I could strip the number prefix
before sending it out. The other inconvenience is having to explain
to other web developers to add a number prefix to each field. With
long forms (and adding fields to the form later) this would be a
bit of a pain.
Thanks,
Bill
I don't think that the concept of form field order exists with
respect to how headers are submitted. If you examine the headers for
different browsers across platforms, I wouldn't be surprised if you
will find that form data isn't always sent in the same order. Maybe
the relevant RFCs cover whether this is part of the HTTP
specification? Point is, there may not be a way for Aparajita to
reliably get what you are requesting.
Have you considered putting hidden data representing field order in
your form or in a session variable? For example a string such as
"First_Name,Last_Name,Phone_Number,Address".
Parse this to an array (Active4D makes this really easy). Then loop
through the array and retrieve and process the form variables
corresponding to First_Name, Last_Name, Phone_Number, Address in
that order?
hth,
Brad
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