RE: [PHP] Dynamic Menus in a PHP Form Issue
-Original Message- From: Alice Wei [mailto:aj...@alumni.iu.edu] Sent: 24 May 2010 04:47 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Dynamic Menus in a PHP Form Issue Hi,I have a snippet as in the following: ul liSelect the type of your starting point of interest:br/ div id=start_menuform action= name=form1 method=post spaninput type=radio value=Apartment name=start onclick=alert(document.form1.start)/ Apartment /span /form/div/li/ulIf I tried to put this at the top of a file where I save as PHP with other PHP execution statements, looks like the form does not do anything, and yet when I save the page as in HTML with out the other PHP execution, it works. I am trying to create a page where I have dynamic drop down menu lists so users can egenerate dynamic content based on their preference. Is it possible that I can save the entire file as a PHP and still keep the functionality, including generating dynamic menus, writing the proper entries to the database and printing out the proper output? Thanks for your help. Alice _ The reason it works in html is because it is executed in the browser. If you want this html to get to the browser you must either echo it to the output buffer that is sent to the browser, or end your php section with ? so that these lines are interpreted as part of the output that is sent to the browser. If your php script is running without error then I presume you're already doing this. If that's the case then maybe it's not being put into the output buffer the way you're expecting (e.g. maybe the quotes don't match). You can look at the source code in the browser and compare it against the working html code to see where the difference is. Cheers Arno -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Dynamic Menus in a PHP Form Issue
From: ak...@telkomsa.net To: aj...@alumni.iu.edu; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Dynamic Menus in a PHP Form Issue Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 08:59:08 +0200 -Original Message- From: Alice Wei [mailto:aj...@alumni.iu.edu] Sent: 24 May 2010 04:47 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Dynamic Menus in a PHP Form Issue Hi,I have a snippet as in the following: ul liSelect the type of your starting point of interest:br/ div id=start_menuform action= name=form1 method=post spaninput type=radio value=Apartment name=start onclick=alert(document.form1.start)/ Apartment /span /form/div/li/ulIf I tried to put this at the top of a file where I save as PHP with other PHP execution statements, looks like the form does not do anything, and yet when I save the page as in HTML with out the other PHP execution, it works. I am trying to create a page where I have dynamic drop down menu lists so users can egenerate dynamic content based on their preference. Is it possible that I can save the entire file as a PHP and still keep the functionality, including generating dynamic menus, writing the proper entries to the database and printing out the proper output? Thanks for your help. Alice _ The reason it works in html is because it is executed in the browser. If you want this html to get to the browser you must either echo it to the output buffer that is sent to the browser, or end your php section with ? so that these lines are interpreted as part of the output that is sent to the browser. If your php script is running without error then I presume you're already doing this. If that's the case then maybe it's not being put into the output buffer the way you're expecting (e.g. maybe the quotes don't match). You can look at the source code in the browser and compare it against the working html code to see where the difference is. Cheers Arno Thanks, guys. I have set now to 2 different requests, and it is doing great now. Alice _ Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_2
Re: [PHP] Dynamic Menus in a PHP Form Issue
At 10:46 AM -0400 5/24/10, Alice Wei wrote: Hi,I have a snippet as in the following: ul liSelect the type of your starting point of interest:br/ div id=start_menuform action= name=form1 method=post spaninput type=radio value=Apartment name=start onclick=alert(document.form1.start)/ Apartment /span /form/div/li/ulIf I tried to put this at the top of a file where I save as PHP with other PHP execution statements, looks like the form does not do anything, and yet when I save the page as in HTML with out the other PHP execution, it works. I am trying to create a page where I have dynamic drop down menu lists so users can egenerate dynamic content based on their preference. Is it possible that I can save the entire file as a PHP and still keep the functionality, including generating dynamic menus, writing the proper entries to the database and printing out the proper output? Thanks for your help. Alice Alice: I'm not sure as to what it is that you are asking, but php runs on the server and is done by time anyone looks at a select control. If you want a dynamic select, then there are two basic types: 1) dynamically generated on the server based upon what the user indicted via a previous submit; 2) dynamically generated on the client-side based upon what the user indicted via a javascript trigger. Now, please describe which type you want? Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Dynamic Menus in a PHP Form Issue
At 11:38 AM -0400 5/24/10, tedd wrote: At 10:46 AM -0400 5/24/10, Alice Wei wrote: Hi,I have a snippet as in the following: ul liSelect the type of your starting point of interest:br/ div id=start_menuform action= name=form1 method=post spaninput type=radio value=Apartment name=start onclick=alert(document.form1.start)/ Apartment /span /form/div/li/ulIf I tried to put this at the top of a file where I save as PHP with other PHP execution statements, looks like the form does not do anything, and yet when I save the page as in HTML with out the other PHP execution, it works. I am trying to create a page where I have dynamic drop down menu lists so users can egenerate dynamic content based on their preference. Is it possible that I can save the entire file as a PHP and still keep the functionality, including generating dynamic menus, writing the proper entries to the database and printing out the proper output? Thanks for your help. Alice Alice: I'm not sure as to what it is that you are asking, but php runs on the server and is done by time anyone looks at a select control. If you want a dynamic select, then there are two basic types: 1) dynamically generated on the server based upon what the user indicted via a previous submit; 2) dynamically generated on the client-side based upon what the user indicted via a javascript trigger. Now, please describe which type you want? Cheers, tedd -- Re the above, I meant indicated and not indicted -- sorry. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
