Re: [PHP] using variable in php form before the form is POSTed
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:02 AM, tedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2:44 PM -0700 5/12/08, milt wrote: I have a form that will be filled in by the user, I want to have access to the content of one of the fields in that form, in order to fill in an another variable that is not part of the form. this variable is used by a routine when the form is posted. Question - is the $_post[field name] availble before the submit button is pushed, or is there another way to get the contents of the field? thanks, Milt Use hidden, such as: input type=hidden name=step value=1 After the form is posted, $_POST['step'] will = 1. I use this technique all the time so that I can use the same script to present different forms based upon which step in the form processing the user is on (i.e., step=1, step=2, step=3 and so on). 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 You could get funky and send that data bit via AJAX to the server to be preprocessed. But likely handling the data bit as the first step on submission, is gonna be simpler and faster to do -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat
Re: [PHP] using variable in php form before the form is POSTed
At 2:44 PM -0700 5/12/08, milt wrote: I have a form that will be filled in by the user, I want to have access to the content of one of the fields in that form, in order to fill in an another variable that is not part of the form. this variable is used by a routine when the form is posted. Question - is the $_post[field name] availble before the submit button is pushed, or is there another way to get the contents of the field? thanks, Milt Use hidden, such as: input type=hidden name=step value=1 After the form is posted, $_POST['step'] will = 1. I use this technique all the time so that I can use the same script to present different forms based upon which step in the form processing the user is on (i.e., step=1, step=2, step=3 and so on). 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
[PHP] using variable in php form before the form is POSTed
I have a form that will be filled in by the user, I want to have access to the content of one of the fields in that form, in order to fill in an another variable that is not part of the form. this variable is used by a routine when the form is posted. Question - is the $_post[field name] availble before the submit button is pushed, or is there another way to get the contents of the field? thanks, Milt -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] using variable in php form before the form is POSTed
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 14:44 -0700, milt wrote: I have a form that will be filled in by the user, I want to have access to the content of one of the fields in that form, in order to fill in an another variable that is not part of the form. this variable is used by a routine when the form is posted. Question - is the $_post[field name] availble before the submit button is pushed, or is there another way to get the contents of the field? PHP only gets what the browser sends. The browser doesn't send until you click the submit button (or perform a synonymous action). You'll need to use JavaScript to work on data before it is submitted. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
