genome Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Hey everyone im new to the forum, Okay so I need some help and maybe snippets on helping me achieve creating a program. The goal of this is to create a game which has the user guess which U.S. President corresponds to a randomly chosen term in office. A term (in office) constitutes a time range in which the U.S. President was the same. It turns out that the range of years of the term corresponds to a single President, but not vice-versa, because there is one U.S. President who had two terms. Generate the random term with this statement: $term = $terms[ mt_rand( 0, count($terms)-1 ) ]; so this is what i have. NOTE: THE OTHER PROGRAM'S PHP FILES ARE MADE. <?php require_once "include/Session.php"; $session = new Session(); if (!isset($session->valid)) { require_once "login.php"; exit(); } require_once "include/presidents.php"; // this is the list of the terms $terms = array_keys($term_presidents); // this is the list of all names (duplicates removed), sorted by last name $presidents = array_unique(array_values($term_presidents)); usort($presidents, "byLastName"); /* DO NOT MODIFY THE ABOVE LINES !!!!! */ $params = (object) $_REQUEST; print_r($params); /* Remaining Php handler code goes here */ ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"/> <title>Average Calculator</title> <style type="text/css"> body { padding: 20px; } #logout { position: absolute; top: 40px; right: 40px; } /* Add more style rules */ </style> </head> <body> <a id="logout" href="logout.php">Log out</a> <h2>President Guess Game</h2> <form action="program.php" method="get"> <button type="submit" name="reset" >New Game</button> </form> <!-- Add form and presentation code --> </body> </html> Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/286686-need-some-guidance/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 So what's your question? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/286686-need-some-guidance/#findComment-1471382 Share on other sites More sharing options...
genome Posted March 4, 2014 Author Share Posted March 4, 2014 how do i go about creating the form with a drop down box including the arrays what should my first steps be with this program code? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/286686-need-some-guidance/#findComment-1471384 Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 The HTML for a dropdown box looks like <select name="name for this dropdown here"> <option value="value 1">Label 1</option> <option value="value 2">Label 2</option> <option value="value 3">Label 3</option> </select>The value should probably be an ID number for each president, such as the key from $presidents. The label would be, of course, their name. Can you get that in place? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/286686-need-some-guidance/#findComment-1471391 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q695 Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Do a database check on the names, and there will be no problem. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/286686-need-some-guidance/#findComment-1471397 Share on other sites More sharing options...
genome Posted March 4, 2014 Author Share Posted March 4, 2014 The HTML for a dropdown box looks like <select name="name for this dropdown here"> <option value="value 1">Label 1</option> <option value="value 2">Label 2</option> <option value="value 3">Label 3</option> </select>The value should probably be an ID number for each president, such as the key from $presidents. The label would be, of course, their name. Can you get that in place? yea i got that in place. Can you explain in lamens term how to go about creating the code for this program? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/286686-need-some-guidance/#findComment-1471402 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q695 Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 While loop with a database to pull the data from for the president of various years.. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/286686-need-some-guidance/#findComment-1471404 Share on other sites More sharing options...
genome Posted March 6, 2014 Author Share Posted March 6, 2014 how can i sort by last name, for my list? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/286686-need-some-guidance/#findComment-1471583 Share on other sites More sharing options...
genome Posted March 6, 2014 Author Share Posted March 6, 2014 figured it out nevermind. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/286686-need-some-guidance/#findComment-1471590 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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