On 01/25/2014 12:45 PM, Jennifer wrote:
Hello all,
We have a PHP form with a static <option> list, where people can request a product sample.
http://www.superiorshelving.com/mfg/aigner/sample.php
There are links on multiple pages that call this page. I would like to send a different default option to that form from each of those pages so that the customer doesn't have to pop-up the list to choose it manually. Of course, if they go to that form directly, there shouldn't be a default.
What would be the best way to handle this? I'm thinking to have code generate the list with the default undefined, and then have the links to that page pass a variable to the form to set a default. Does that sound like it would work?
Any other ideas are appreciated!
Thank you,
Jenni
Superior Shelving Systems::::....
http://www.SuperiorShelving.com
The (Storage|Office|Home|Warehouse) Shelving Specialists
Since 1984
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http://www.superiorshelving.com/mfg/nexel/pages/wire-shelving-chrome.php
I would suggest having either an anchor or a button on the first page linking
to the second page with the form.
So, on the first page, you would have something like this:
Universal way
<a href="sample.php?d=4">Go to Sample page</a>
or
<form action="sample.php" method="get">
<input type="hidden" name="d" value="4" />
<input type="submit" value="Got to Sample page" />
</form>
or an HTML5 method
<button formmethod="get" formaction="sample.php?d=4">Go to Sample page</button>
Then, once you get to generating the form -> select box options, do something
like this. I assume you are looping through some sort of list to generate the
options. In my example, I am using an ID instead of a label. But you could
use a label instead of an ID, you would simply match it to the value of the
option instead of the ID of the option.
<?php
... Get your options together into an array ...
$id = intval($_GET['d']);
foreach ( $options AS $k => $option ) {
$k = htmlspecialchars($k);
$option = htmlspecialchars($option);
$sel = ( $id == $k ? ' selected="selected"' : '' );
echo "\t<option value=\"{$k}\"{$sel}>{$option}</option>\n";
}
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