$f->add_element();

Anon

oohforms.inc doens't understand my defined form elements. i just get errors:

Warning: Undefined index: name in ../phplib/oohforms.inc on line 71

Warning: Undefined index: name in ../phplib/oohforms.inc on line 72

Warning: Undefined index: size in ../phplib/oohforms.inc on line 71

Warning: Undefined index: size in ../phplib/oohforms.inc on line 72

Warning: Undefined index: maxlength in ../phplib/oohforms.inc on line 71

Warning: Undefined index: maxlength in ../phplib/oohforms.inc on line 72

and many more...

i checked my syntax x times and dont have any ideas anymore.
anyone can help me solving this problem?

Anon

Well the error is that oohforms is looking for various indexes in an array (name, size, maxlenght) are you sure that these indexes exist?

Why don't you post your code? Seeing the errors is useful, but without seeing the areas of code that cause the errors it's very difficult to debug.

Anon

thanx. btw whats ment by that 'index'? about the code: i thought it would be too much for the beginning. but you're right. i'm quite sure that there's nothing wrong with my code 'coz i copy/pasted from a previous working document. however, here it is:
<?

phplib includes

$PHPLIB['libdir'] ='../phplib/';
include($PHPLIB['libdir'].'oohforms.inc');

own includes

include('defines.inc');

instances

$f = new form;

elements definition

reset($menuelements);
while(list($k,$v) = each($menuelements)){
$f->add_element($v);
}

and the included defines.inc contains the following:

form elements

$menuelements = array(
'entry' => array(
'name' => 'entry',
'type' => 'text',
'size' => 50,
'maxlength' => 50,
'valid_e' => 'entry: error ',
'valid_regex' => '^[a-zA-Z\ .-]+$',
'extrahtml' => 'STYLE="width:230px" CLASS="form"'),

'type' => array(
'name' => 'art',
'type' => 'text',
'size' => 3,
'maxlength' => 1,
'valid_e' => 'type: error ',
'valid_regex' => '^[mse]+$',
'extrahtml' => 'STYLE="width:30px" CLASS="form"'),

'submit' => array(
'name' => 'submit',
'type' => 'submit',
'value' => 'submit',
'extrahtml' => 'STYLE="width:100px" WIDTH="100" BORDER="0" ALT="submit"')
);

even if i add an element directly from the php document the same errors occur.
i have to use a local phplib 'coz the provider only got php installed. i'm still testing the files locally on my comp. (apache,php,phplib,mysql) the problem may be in there.
i really don't have an idea how to fix this problem. thanx in advance.

Anon

When you use an array the elements in that array are referenced by indexes usually numbered, but you can also have array's that use text indexes (these are called associative arrays).

So you could have an array called $person that has the values of John, Q, and Public this array can store this information in 2 ways either straight using a numbered index:

$person[0] = "John"
$person[1] = "Q"
$person[2] = "Public"

Or as an associative array using text indexes or keys:

$person["first_name"] = "John"
$person["middle_name"] = "Q"
$person["last_name"] = "Public"

You should really read the PHP manual about arrays to understand this fully: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php

As for your code I believe that it's missing something. You are calling the add_element() method (function) of the form class and giving it a value, that value is an array that holds various items. You should check the usage of the add_element() method to make sure that it's supposed to accept an array or if you need to do something else before you call add_element().

I've never used phplib so I can't be any more help than that. The phplib documentation though can be found here: http://phplib.netuse.de/documentation/index.php3