flamingvan Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 When a form is submitted I can get the field names and the entered values with $_POST, but is there a way to determine what type of field? For instance, can I determine if a field was a textarea or an input field? Thanks! Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/72970-determine-field-type/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildteen88 Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 No not really. The browser doesn't pass the type of field the data has come from. All data entered in a form is treated as text. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/72970-determine-field-type/#findComment-367987 Share on other sites More sharing options...
slushpuppie Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 no it's all just post data. the type only really affects how it displays, the values come across as text. so "tree" from a SELECT tag is the same as "tree" value for a radio button is the same as "tree" from a text input. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/72970-determine-field-type/#findComment-367990 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerRobot Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 Out of interest, why would you want to? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/72970-determine-field-type/#findComment-368001 Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamingvan Posted October 12, 2007 Author Share Posted October 12, 2007 I wrote a script that handles a lot of different forms and I need to know for formatting data to refill incomplete required fields. Shoot, now what am I gonna do. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/72970-determine-field-type/#findComment-368006 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MmmVomit Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 Separate it into several different scripts? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/72970-determine-field-type/#findComment-368025 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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