Variable and Textbox color?

[BigDC]

Hello,

I have a script that has an html page with a form on it. On this page is 3 different text boxes. I also have 3 variables named, $tbox1, $tbox2, and $tbox3. Each variable has a different hex color code stored in it that has been pulled from my database. My question, how can I use the hex codes stored in these variables to change the standard white color of all 3 text boxes (not the text color) to the three different hex colors stored in the variables?

 

$tbox2 = ....Hex color code from database is received;
$tbox2 = ....Hex color code from database is received;
$tbox2 = ....Hex color code from database is received;

echo'
<input type="text" ID="t1" name="tbox1" size="29" value=""><p>
<input type="text" ID="t2" name="tbox2" size="29" value=""><p>
<input type="text" ID="t3" name="tbox3" size="29" value=""><p>';

 

I need to know two different ways to do this, and they are:

1. When the page loads?

2. When a button is clicked?

 

Please help, as I am completely stumped?

 

-Thanks!

[mikesta707]

you can't do when a button is clicked with pure PHP. you will need javascript. but for when the page loads you can do

 

echo'
<input type="text" ID="t1" style='background-Color:$tbox1' name="tbox1" size="29" value=""><p>
<input type="text" ID="t2" style='background-Color:$tbox2' name="tbox2" size="29" value=""><p>
<input type="text" ID="t3" style='background-Color:$tbox3' name="tbox3" size="29" value=""><p>';

 

this assumes the hex codes also include the pound(#) sign, IE look like #CCCCCC

[BigDC]

you can't do when a button is clicked with pure PHP. you will need javascript. but for when the page loads you can do

 

echo'
<input type="text" ID="t1" style='background-Color:$tbox1' name="tbox1" size="29" value=""><p>
<input type="text" ID="t2" style='background-Color:$tbox2' name="tbox2" size="29" value=""><p>
<input type="text" ID="t3" style='background-Color:$tbox3' name="tbox3" size="29" value=""><p>';

 

this assumes the hex codes also include the pound(#) sign, IE look like #CCCCCC

 

Oh ok. So how would I do it with javascript using a button?

[mikesta707]

you would need to pass the variables from PHP to javascript, and you could use the HTML DOM that javascript has built in to dynamically do it. something like

//javscript
document.getElementById('t1').style.backgroundColor=#CCCCCC