Ashley Sheridan wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 01:38 -0400, PJ wrote:
>
>> Ashley Sheridan wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 07:17 +0530, kranthi wrote:
>>>
>>>> yeh an onclick event handler is required to achieve this. but as Shawn
>>>> has suggested radio buttons are better in this case.
>>>>
>>>> but then again if u want to disable/greyout the other input(like
>>>> textboxes, other than the radio button itself) u'll hav to use onclick
>>>> event handler for the radio buttons
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Not necessarily, you could use CSS to change the background colour:
>>>
>>> input[checked=checked]
>>> {
>>> set styles here
>>> }
>>>
>> I see that Shawn's suggested radio buttons will do just fine. I hadn't
>> thought about that. Dummy me.
>> But the real problem I have is to pass a form input value to a variable.
>> For example:
>> <input type="text" name="titleIN" size="52" />
>> <input type="radio" name="choice" value="$titleIN" />
>> How can I pass the "text" input to a variable that could be used by the
>> "radio" button?
>> The idea is to have several inputs for a search page with the inputs
>> limited by the radio button to one choice of several inputs. If I can
>> get the input to a variable, I can then manipulate it to do a query for
>> the search. :-\
>> Hope this is understandable?
>>
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>> unheralded genius: "A clean desk is the sign of a dull mind. "
>> -------------------------------------------------------------
>> Phil Jourdan --- pj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> http://www.ptahhotep.com
>> http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php
>>
>>
> Just accept all the text inputs from the form,
You mean, submit? to the originating page? I'm trying to use $_POST, so
action="this_file.php"?
Then manipulate the results and pass them to a query and then display on
page. Right?
> and use a switch on the
> radio button to determine which of the text inputs you use.
>
But how do you use the above - "switch on the radio button" ?
> Alternatively, just use one text box for input and use the value of the
> radio button to determine what to do with the text.
Don't understand this either.
I must really be stupid for I have been trying both methods and I just
don't know how to deal with this...
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