[thelist] click to add a line r delete this line?
Bob Meetin
bobm at dottedi.biz
Thu Aug 28 12:46:58 CDT 2008
Barry Woolgar wrote:
> Hello
>
> Sorry I'm not sure I'm understanding what it is you are asking. Sounds like
> you want someone to write you a inventory management script!
>
> As a start point you could use HTML form input arrays, where you use square
> brackets to build arrays of values when the form is submitted. For example,
> each row would have an input named "SKU[unique_row_id]". Then when the form
> is submitted (with PHP at least) you will be able to access the values from
> the $_POST array like this:
>
> $_POST['SKU']['prod1'] // first prod SKU
> $_POST['SKU']['prod2'] // second prod SKU
> $_POST['SKU'][prodX'] // and so on
>
> This way you can have a grid based form with loads of input fields and a
> relatively easy way to sort them all out when processing it.
>
> There could be some accessibility and usability issues here but hopefully
> it'll point you in the right direction.
>
> Barry
Thanks and no, I don't want someone to write it for me. I'm not sure
what you would call this function otherwise I would 'google' it, then
gleem and perhaps borrow. Yeah I know it will be done using arrays
which I do, but not my finest skill. If I could just squeak in some
'bourne' shell scripting but neah that's not a good solution. Any idea
what this function might be called? I probably should check my friend
Mootools. What you suggest with the unique_row_id is a clue to get me
going. At this point this is in proposal status. PHP only for me.
-Bob
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