Text box control id not showing up!

[nd3_2000]

Hi guys

 

am having a real problem right now, I need to pass a calander control to another page and I cant seem to get it to read the ID of the text box the value is being placed into.....

 

Here is the code

 

 

<td colspan="2" align="left"><input name="Datelogged" type="text"value ="Click Select" size="15" id="Datelogged" />

        <a href="#"

  name="anchor1" class="style1" id="anchor1"

  onclick="cal.select (document.forms[0].Datelogged,'anchor1','yyyy-MM-dd');  return false;">select</a></td>

    </tr>

 

<a href="CompleteProof.php?JobNumber=<?php  echo $JobNo; ?>&ProofDate=<?php  echo DateLogged; ?>"></BR>[Complete Proof]</a></BR></BR></BR>

 

 

All I keep getting is this, its just passing through the word Datelogged NOT the date value that is in the text box

 

 

 

http://www.xxxxxxxxx.co.uk/CompleteProof.php?JobNumber=PFAug25&ProofDate=DateLogged

[KevinM1]

Well, first, DateLogged isn't a proper PHP variable.  It's a string literal, which is why it's being echoed as-is.  Also, it looks like you're confusing the capabilities/uses of PHP and JavaScript.

 

What it looks like you're trying to do is pass an element's value in a query string.  PHP cannot obtain this value (at least, not easily).  It doesn't work like JavaScript where it automatically keeps a representation of the HTML document that you can directly reference.  So, you'll need to use JavaScript in order to fill in the rest.

 

I suggest creating an event handler for a button's onclick event.  You can pass into it the $JobNo value, and obtain the DateLogged value all at the same time:

 

function processClick(jobNo){
   window.location = "CompleteProof.php?JobNumber=" + jobNo + "&ProofDate=" + document.getElementById('DateLogged').value;
}

...

<button type="button" onclick="processClick(<?php echo $JobNo; ?>)">[Complete Proof]</button>

 

This should give you something to start with.

[nd3_2000]

Hi

thanks for your advice with that, I kind of understand what you are saying and realised it was to do with the calanders value not being passed, apologies as Im pretty new to this!!!

 

I placed the code in and when runnign it, it gives me an error like this on the button click

 

"GPAUG20 is undefined"   

 

when it tries to send the value of the jobNo through!

 

Any ideas? as have no idea of the solution of this!

 

 

[KevinM1]

What does CPAUG20 supposed to reference?

[nd3_2000]

GPAUG20 is the JobNo thats being passed through to it

[KevinM1]

GPAUG20 is the JobNo thats being passed through to it

 

Okay, I need to see more of your code, especially where/how you've written the function I showed you, and where/how $JobNo is being created.