Help with a PHP form...two quick questions

[gazfocus]

I have a PHP form and for the date I've got 3 seperate boxes (one for dd, one for mm, and one for yyyy).

 

1. When the form is submitted, how do I make a variable containing all 3 in the format dd/mm/yyyy?

I know it's $date=$_POST[dd] but then how do I add the other 2?

 

2. When the form comes up, instead of having labels, I've set the initial value as the label (ie date for the date box). Is it possible to make this text disappear once the curser goes into that box rather than having to manually delete it?

 

Thanks

[Maq]

1) Concatenation.

 

$final_date = "" . $_POST[dd] . "/" . $_POST[mm] . "/" . $_POST[yyyy] . "";

 

2) Yes.  You can do this using Javascript.

 

onfocus="this.value = ( this.value == this.defaultValue ) ? '' : this.value;return true;">

[gazfocus]

Sorry to sound dumb but where do I put that javascript code? What bits do I need to change to fit my form?

 

Thanks

[Maq]

Sorry to sound dumb but where do I put that javascript code? What bits do I need to change to fit my form?

 

Can you post your form?

[gazfocus]

It's still a working process. I've put the echos in but haven't got it entered into the database yet. Here it is:

<?php
if ($_POST[viewed] != "yes")
{
echo "<form name=\"form1\" method=\"post\" action=\"$SERVER[php_SELF]\">
  <table width=\"200\" border=\"0\">
    <tr>
      <td valign=\"top\"><input name=\"title\" type=\"text\" id=\"title\" tabindex=\"1\" value=\"Event Title\" size=\"80\" maxlength=\"100\"></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td height=\"27\" valign=\"top\">
  <input name=\"dd\" type=\"text\" id=\"dd\" tabindex=\"2\" value=\"dd\" size=\"5\" maxlength=\"2\">
      <input name=\"mm\" type=\"text\" id=\"mm\" tabindex=\"2\" value=\"mm\" size=\"5\" maxlength=\"2\">
      <input name=\"yyyy\" type=\"text\" id=\"yyyy\" tabindex=\"2\" value=\"yyyy\" size=\"10\" maxlength=\"4\"></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td valign=\"top\"><input name=\"eventTime\" type=\"text\" id=\"eventTime\" tabindex=\"3\" value=\"Time\" maxlength=\"7\"></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td valign=\"top\"><input name=\"venue\" type=\"text\" id=\"venue\" tabindex=\"4\" value=\"Venue\" size=\"80\" maxlength=\"100\"></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td valign=\"top\"><textarea name=\"description\" id=\"description\" cols=\"45\" rows=\"5\" tabindex=\"5\">Enter discription here</textarea></td>
    </tr>
<tr>
  <td valine=\"top\"><input type=\"submit\" name=\"submit\" id=\"submit\" value=\"Add Event\" /></td>
</tr>
<input name=\"viewed\" type=\"hidden\" id=\"viewed\" value=\"yes\">
</table>
</form>";
}
else
{
$title = $_POST[title];
$eventDate = $_POST[dd]."/".$_POST[mm]."/".$_POST[yyyy];
$eventTime = $_POST[eventTime];
$venue = $_POST[venue];
$description = $_POST[description];
echo "<b>".$title."</b><br />".$eventTime." ".$eventDate."<br />".$venue."<br /><br />".$description."<br /><br />This event has been successfully added";
}
?>

 

Thanks again

[Maq]

Work in progress eh?  Instead of all those escaping back slashes you can use single quotes.  Anyway for this input field you would do:

 

[gazfocus]

That's fantastic

 

Thanks again. I really appreciate it

[Maq]

Let me know how it works out.