I can try to answer the second one but would wait for the PHP gurus to chime in.
Can't you have Choice=1 with selected="true" by default? On the PHP end, you can get the value of whatever was selected. Regards, Shreyas On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:50 AM, David Mehler <dave.meh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I've got two questions which are probably fairly simple, my issue is > i'm staring at this so long it's blurring together. > I'm working on a form to insert data in to a mysql database. I've > got > a startdate and and enddate field in the database both of type DATE, > i'm needing this as i'm wanting to do a calculation against the date > and only display records greater than or equal to the current date. My > understanding is dates have to be entered as 2010-06-02 with this > format. > I'm having several issues: the first of which is I entered a date as > probably a user would as June 2, 2010 and on the display page got all > zeroes, is there a way i can be more flexible with my data entry, > enter it, then store it in the format mysql needs? > My second issue is that the startdate field is NOT NULL while the > enddate field is. On submission I only want those forms that are > actually in the post data to get inserted in to the database, and > displayed, i.e. if enddate was not entered I shouldn't see all zeroes > in the field in the database, if using the mysql commandline client, > or all zeroes in displayed output. I'm not sure how to conditionally > insert or display a field based on whether it's set. > My last issue, not on dates, is on a selection box. I've got two > choices to choose from, choice1 and choice2 just for this example. If > a user goes through and selects nothing I want choice1 to be > automatically selected on form submission, if a user selects choice2 > then the form should go with that. Here's my code. > > <div> > <label for="txtchoose">Choose*:</label> > <select name="Choice for Selection"> > <option> - choice1 - </option> > <option> - choice2 - </option> > </select> > </div> > > On form submission the php script processes it and enters an empty > field in the database if the user doesn't select an option. > Thanks. > Dave. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Regards, Shreyas
