On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 17:57 +0200, Jochem Maas wrote:
> Robert Cummings wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> >> I'll add the CSS once I can get the form to work properly, and can  
> >> figure out how to change the color with css based on a certain value  
> >> stored in a database IE: $rowColor :)
> > 
> > At it's simplest:
> > 
> >     '<td class="'.$rowColor.'">'
> 
> ...
> if $rowColor is a hex based value using it as a CSS class is not really going 
> to work
> that well, in such cases I would opt to use inline css:
> 
> echo '<td style="background:', $rowColor, '">';

Inline CSS is as maintainable as bgcolor. if you're using inline styling
then you've missed the point.

> >> To the point of the email though, is it just as simple as typing  
> >> textbox[] and I have an array from the text boxes? :)
> > 
> > Yes, but only if one or more checkboxes get checked. Unchecked
> > checkboxes are not sent to the server by the browser. So you need at
> 
> where did the checkboxes come from? I'm sure he was only asking about 
> textboxes.

I dunno :) Guess it was so similar to checkboxes and I most often use
array syntax in form fields when working with checkboxes that I got
confused :B

> BUT: Rob is correct, and if you have a number of fields in each row (of which 
> some
> might be checkboxes) you are better off adding explicit array indices to the 
> field
> element names so that you can explicitly match values for a give row accross 
> multiple
> arrays:
> 
> <input type="text" name="text[1]"><input type="checkbox" name="chk[1]" 
> value="1">
> <input type="text" name="text[2]"><input type="checkbox" name="chk[2]" 
> value="1">
> 
> for ($i = 1; isset($_POST['text'][$i]); $i++) {
>       $text = cleanInput($_POST['text'][$i]);
>       $chk  = isset($_POST['chk'][$i]);  // checkboxes are not sent if they 
> are not checked
> }
> 
> > leas one to have an array, but you can just check for existence of your
> > incoming data before attempting to access array indexes.

Cheers,
Rob.
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