On Wednesday 01 October 2003 21:18, Greg Wiley wrote:
> Apologies if this has been asked before but I couldn't find
> anything on google or any of the PHP code sites that quite fits my
> requirements. Here's the problem:
>
> I have a form which presents the user with a table of dates with
> checkboxes for a three month period, e.g.
>
> Dec 7th 14th 21st 28th
> am [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
> pm [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
>
> Jan 4th 11th 18th 25th
> am [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
> pm [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
>
> Feb 1st 8th 15th 22nd 29th
> am [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
> pm [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
>
> When the user submits the form with any of the boxes checked I
> want to have these sorted into date order.
>
> If I check Dec 28th am and pm, Jan 4th am and pm, Jan 18th am and
> pm and Feb 15th am and pm then the order returned in the _POST is:
>
> Dec 28 am, Dec 28 pm, Jan 4 am, Jan 18 am, Jan 4 pm, Jan 18 pm,
> Feb 15 am, Feb 15 pm
>
> This is, I believe, due to the order of the elements in the form.
> I tried using tabindex to influence the order returned but to no
> avail. So I'm now trying to do this in the php code that processes
> the submission. There is no year info such that I could turn the
> dates into timestamp and sort that way. Has anyone got any code
> that can sort this correctly?
Incorporate whatever sorting info you need into the value of the checkbox.
<input type="checkbox"
name="Dec 28 am"
value="<insert timestamp for Dec 28 or whatever>">
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