Advanced web forms

[hvandracas]

Good morning,

 

I'm creating a content management system for my game. It's RPG style, so it contains many tasks, however, adding them is a bit complicated process and the system isn't simple. Therefore, simple web form is needed, but there are fields that depend on others. For instance, if quest type is k (which means killing task), a field asking how many different kinds of monsters need to be killed, then there should appear x fields with more specific information. To sum up, i need an example, advice or sth that would help me to create this type of html where new fields appear automatically depending on the chosen ones.

 

Thanks in advance,

Karolis

[Anti-Moronic]

Well javascript is the only way to do this without posting information back to the page over and over again, so I'd advise you look into jQuery.

 

Here are a couple of tutorials:

 

http://mondaybynoon.com/2009/02/23/creating-custom-form-elements-using-jquery-selects/

 

The only way to do this with php is to, after selecting a form element, post the form, then present the conditional form elements based on that. As you can imagine, almost everybody opts for the javascript way.

[hvandracas]

Well, that's a lot of to do. So, i'll have to learn not only jQuery but JavaScript too.^^

[hvandracas]

Well, i'd rather remain on PHP option... Although it's more messy,however, this is completely clear to me.