RE: [PHP] Re: Form handling

2009-06-12 Thread Dajve Green
> -Original Message- > From: Manuel Lemos [mailto:mle...@acm.org] > Sent: 11 June 2009 07:21 > To: Eddie Drapkin > Cc: PHP General Mailing List > Subject: [PHP] Re: Form handling > > Hello, > > on 06/10/2009 03:10 PM Eddie Drapkin said the following: > > I've been charged with writing a

RE: [PHP] populate form input option dropdown box from existing data

2009-06-16 Thread Dajve Green
> -Original Message- > From: PJ [mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca] > Sent: 15 June 2009 23:10 > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] populate form input option dropdown box from existing data > > I am having difficulties figuring out how enter retrieved data into a > dropdown box

RE: [PHP] difference between two times? Date_diff and DateTime::diff

2009-06-16 Thread Dajve Green
Hi Matthew, A quick note on the DateTime::diff() method - it's only available as from PHP 5.3, which is currently in release candidate stage, meaning unless you have your own server running PHP, it won't be available to use (hopefully - I would be sceptical of any webhost which rolls out RCs on p

RE: [PHP] populate form input option dropdown box from existing data

2009-06-16 Thread Dajve Green
Yeah, I used to write that way but found I and others in the team saved a lot more time troubleshooting and extending the code when returning 6 months later if it was more verbose. Horses for courses, I guess. Also, the selected attribute should be selected='selected' to validate correctly as xht

RE: [PHP] difference between two times? Date_diff and DateTime::diff

2009-06-16 Thread Dajve Green
June 2009 15:55 To: Matthew Croud Cc: Dajve Green; PHP General list Subject: Re: [PHP] difference between two times? Date_diff and DateTime::diff The first example here may help: http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.time.php 2009/6/16 Matthew Croud Hi

RE: [PHP] populate form input option dropdown box from existing data

2009-06-16 Thread Dajve Green
A *multiple* select control, as in Phil's initial request will return an array, however. > -Original Message- > From: tedd [mailto:tedd.sperl...@gmail.com] > Sent: 16 June 2009 15:58 > To: PJ; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] populate form input option dropdown box from exis

RE: [PHP] populate form input option dropdown box from existingdata

2009-06-16 Thread Dajve Green
Ack, yes - my bad. Missed the select name square brackets when I sent my example. And yeah, the only real difference between a multiple select and checkbox is which works best with the UI (and, more often than not, how confused the concept of multiple selects makes your end-user) -- for (thought