Self submitting a form - pass it to a session ... any idea's

[Accurax]

Hi chaps...

 

Ok i have the following form... which self submits when a user selects one of the many radio buttons.

 

<?php
if(isset($_POST['myform'])){
echo "form submitted";
}
echo "<form method='post' action='" . $self . "'>";
echo "<input type=radio name='myform' value='" . $row['title'] . "' onchange='this.form.submit();'>";
echo "</form>";
?>

 

I need to get this submitted form value into a session somehow.... but at the moment i cant seem to make the page accept the form was submitted.

 

I was hoping someone may be able to point me in the right direction to gettng this working? ... i think it may have something to do with the way the page is processed ie.. php on the server JS on the client.... its a strange old problem ... any and all advice seriously appreciate d!!

 

Accy

 

[revraz]

Just use action=''

[Accurax]

excuse me? .... could you elaborate a little please?

[revraz]

If you omit the action, it goes to itself.  Right now, your $self is not defined so it goes no where.

[Accurax]

Hmmm ... that doesnt seem to help my friend....

 

<?php
if(isset($_POST['myform'])){
echo "form submitted";
}
echo "<form method='post'>";
echo "<input type=radio name='myform' value='" . $row['title'] . "' onchange='this.form.submit();'>";
echo "</form>";
?>

[Mikedean]

If $self isn't being set then it would already be doing that.

 

I'm wondering if the form is actually submitting at all, you might want to try changing the 'onchange' to 'onClick'.

[Accurax]

If $self isn't being set then it would already be doing that.

 

I'm wondering if the form is actually submitting at all, you might want to try changing the 'onchange' to 'onClick'.

 

Doesnt seem to make any difference.... the form looks like its submitting... the page refreshes, but my conditional never seems to hold true ....

[Accurax]

Here's some code that works correctly... tyhere are clear differences, but maybe someone will spot something i've missed

 

<?php
if(isset($_POST['myform'])){
echo "waaaahey";
}
?>
<form method="post">
<input type=radio name='myform' value='test' onchange='this.form.submit()'>
</form>

 

As you can see when the form and onChange even are outside of the php then it works correctly..... problem is i need to produce my radio buttons via a while loop, so that isnt an option

[revraz]

You can create the radios outside of PHP in a while loop.  Just end it and restart it.

[Mikedean]

Was '$row['title']' being set before? It might not have been setting correctly, or believing it was set correctly as it didn't have a value.

 

That's the only difference I can see which could have caused a problem. Although saying that, I ran your original code on my localhost and it worked fine.

[Accurax]

$row['title'] gets set just before the form starts

 

heres the complete code... including the loop im using:

 

<?php
		$id = $_SESSION['customer_id'];
					$query = "SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE customers_id='$id'";
					$result = mysql_query($query)
							or die ("could not find name");
		echo "<table id=\"pres_box\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellmargin=\"0\">";
		echo "<form method='post' action='" . $self . "'>";
		echo "<tr>";
		echo "<td colspan=\"2\" class=\"title\">";
		echo "Select your option";
		echo "</td>";
		echo "</tr>";
while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
		echo "<tr>";
		echo "<td>";
		echo $row['title'];
		echo "</td>";
		echo "<td>";
		echo "<input type=radio name='myform' value='" . $row['title'] . "' onChange='this.form.submit();'>";
		echo "</td>";
		echo "</tr>";
}
		echo "</form>";
		echo "</table>";

?>

 

how would i go about ending and restarting the while loop... as you can see i need a radio button for each entry in the database... this could be anything from 1 - 100

[Mikedean]

Ah ok .

 

while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
?>
         <tr>
         <td>
         <?php
          echo $row['title'];
          ?>
         </td>
         <td>
         <input type='radio' name='myform' value='<?php echo $row['title'] ?>' onChange='this.form.submit();'>
         </td>
         </tr>
<?php
}

[Accurax]

this shouldnt be this difficult surley .... its still doesnt work.... heres the conditional imusing to check if the form is submitted:

 

<?php
if(isset($_POST['prescription'])){
echo "waaaahey";
}
?>

 

ive tried this before and after the while loop and to no avail... i just dont know whats wrong

 

sorry to keep pestering but i really am stumped

[Accurax]

Anyone else able to help with this ??

[Accurax]

bump... could really do with some more input on this if anypne has a few moments to spare

 

thanks in advance

[Goldeneye]

Why don't you try using a Submit-Button instead of a Radio-Button to submit the form?

[Accurax]

i ant im afraid ..... this needs to happen automatically .... looks like i may have to figure it out myself.... really appreciate the help though guys

[Razesdark]

What do you see when you look at the plain HTML source code when you view the actual page.

And what do you see when you see when you put in print_r($POST); in your code ?

This outputs everything which is inside $POST.

 

[revraz]

Ask in the Javascript help forum, since that's what you are using.