[thelist] dump question, but...
John Corry
lists at neoncowboy.com
Fri Jun 10 11:49:00 CDT 2005
> Its been awhile and I'm getting rusty. I'm doing some
> redirecting back to a php form page, its a pretty long form
> so I dont want people to have to fill in all the stuff if
> they missed one thing or even 30 things. Anyway, I have a
> checkbox with about 9 items they can check, and I want that
> remembered, so I something like this.
>
> <input type="checkbox" name="housecond[]" value="1" <? if
> ($housecond=="1") print "checked" ?>>
>
> Yes I have done this before, but its friday and I have been
> racing through this site for a friend.
Race faster with functions! (mind the wrap)
// string checkbox_field ([string name [, string value [, string label [,
string match]]]])
// This function returns an HTML checkbox field. The optional third argument
// will be included immediately after the checkbox field, and the pair
// is included inside a HTML <nobr> tag - meaning that they will be
// displayed together on the same line. If the value of the
// second or third argument matches that of the fourth argument,
// the checkbox will be 'checked' (i.e., flipped on).
function checkbox_field ($name="", $value="", $label="", $match="")
{
$checked = ($value == $match || $label == $match) ? "checked" : "";
$output = <<<EOQ
<nobr><input type="checkbox" name="$name" value="$value" $checked>
$label</nobr>
EOQ;
return $output;
}
So, to call this function:
<?= checkbox_field('housecond', $_POST['housecond'], '',
$_POST['housecond']?>
I need to rewrite my form element functions as a class for consistency with
my other HTML class stuff...but am sort of on the verge of using PEAR for
all this stuff.
When you get done racing and have a little time, do yourself a favor and
check out the HTML, form and table classes at PEAR. There are some very cool
tools for doing this kind of repetitive, arduous work over there.
http://pear.php.net
Good luck,
John Corry
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