Use a form library or framework. Like PEAR Html QuickForm if you want to use plain PHP for the most of your project.
Or better yet, use framework like Symfony. On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Brendan Brink <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I am wanting to accomplish the following and wonder if possible and if > so, how to do it :) > > <textarea name="preferred_work" cols="45" rows="5" class="inputclass" > id="preferred_work"><?php echo $emp['preferred_work'];?></textarea> > > This works fine the above, but want to make it more dynamic, and > instead of hardcoding the field name from the $emp row, to capture the > name of the form field, using Java i guess, something like > > 'this.name' > > Reason is, I am trying to create more dynamic forms, and speed up coding time. > > I realise that a better way would be to generate the entire form field > dynamically, and use PHP to echo the name of the field when creating > it, however the forms are already created and am wanting a quick way > to popular the fields with existing data from the database. > > hope this all makes sense :) > > Cheers > Brendan. > > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] -- Blue Horn Ltd - System Development http://bluehorn.co.nz -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
