> From: ak...@telkomsa.net
> To: aj...@alumni.iu.edu; php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: RE: [PHP] Dynamic Menus in a PHP Form Issue
> Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 08:59:08 +0200
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alice Wei [mailto:aj...@alumni.iu.edu]
> Sent: 24 May 2010 04:47 PM
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: [PHP] Dynamic Menus in a PHP Form Issue
>
> Hi, I have a snippet as in the following: <ul>
> <li>Select the type of your starting point of interest:<br/>
> <div id="start_menu"><form action="" name="form1" method="post">
> <span><input type="radio" value="Apartment" name="start"
> onclick="alert(document.form1.start)"/> Apartment </span>
> </form></div></li> </ul>If I tried to put this at the top of a
> file where I save as PHP with other PHP execution statements, looks like the
> form does not do anything, and yet when I save the page as in HTML with out
> the other PHP execution, it works. I am trying to create a page where I have
> dynamic drop down menu lists so users can egenerate dynamic content based on
> their preference. Is it possible that I can save the entire file as a PHP
> and still keep the functionality, including generating dynamic menus,
> writing the proper entries to the database and printing out the proper
> output?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Alice
> _________________________________________________________________
>
> The reason it works in html is because it is "executed" in the browser. If
> you want this html to get to the browser you must either echo it to the
> output buffer that is sent to the browser, or end your php section with "?>"
> so that these lines are interpreted as part of the output that is sent to
> the browser.
>
> If your php script is running without error then I presume you're already
> doing this. If that's the case then maybe it's not being put into the output
> buffer the way you're expecting (e.g. maybe the quotes don't match). You can
> look at the source code in the browser and compare it against the working
> html code to see where the difference is.
>
> Cheers
> Arno
Thanks, guys. I have set now to 2 different requests, and it is doing great
now.
Alice
>
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