PHP3 output > Text field on webpage

[Anon]

Having some trouble getting the output of one of my .PHP3 programs into a form field on a webpage.

Here's what I got:

The .PHP3 file is called namegen.PHP3, and it takes a random word from a file called name1 and a random word from name2, and combines them in this fashion: "John Smith".

Now the webpage asks for a bunch of information, such as name, email address, etc. It also asks for a character name, which should be generated by the PHP3 file.
I added a button to randomly generate said name, in the user field, but beyond looking pretty, nothing happens. I dont know how to get the output from the PHP3 to the field.

Any thoughts? (Please don't respond with "look at the docs". I've done that, but I havent seen anything that really helps me so, I've decided to ask here 🙂 )

Sarin

[matto]

the goal is to include the newly generated name into a text input?

echo "<input type=text name=username value=\"$generatedname\">";

$generatedname should be generated in the code before that output. either place your generation code in the same script, or include it above:

include "namegen.PHP3"

[Anon]

the goal is to include the newly generated name into a text input?

echo "<input type=text name=username value=\"$generatedname\">";

$generatedname should be generated in the code before that output. either place your generation code in the same script, or include it above:

include "namegen.PHP3"

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Right, but I'm not exactly sure how to generate it. Hate to be a pain, but I need a little more help here.

(I do appreciate it tho) 🙂

Sarin

[Anon]

Just to be incredibly clear on what I'm doing:

namegen.PHP3 generates a name in the "John Smith" format.

The HTML source prompts for information such as AGE, ADDRESS etc.

Age ________ <-- user input from keyboard
Name ____ <- user input
Character Name ________ <- user input OR
[Button1] <- Button one calls namegen.php3
and takes the value "John Smith"
and adds it to the field above:

Character Name John Smith _

But I have no idea whatsoever about how to get this to happen.

I think that was explicit 🙂

Sarin

[rsterbin]

The best I can figure is this:

1. set your form action to $PHP_SELF

2. make sure you put data back into the fields, i.e. <input type=text name=age <? if ($age) echo "value=$age"; ?> size=20>

3. name the "generate name" button, i.e. <input type=submit name=choice value="Generate Name"> *note-> your "real" submit button might be name=choice value=Submit, such that:

4. at the top of the page (or wherever), decide whether to submit the data or just generate a name:

<? if ($choice) {
switch ($choice) {
case "Generate Name":
...generate the name
...print the form (with values)
break;
case "Submit":
...do something with the info
break;
default:
...print an error message, or whatever
break;
}
} ?>

The overall file would be something like:

<? if ($choice) {
...code above (processing data)...
} ?>

<form method=post action=<? echo $PHP_SELF; ?>>
...
<input type=text name=char_name value=<? echo "value=$generated_name"; ?> size=20>
...
</form>

As far as generating the name goes, it sounds like an interesting problem involving rand(), but that's another solution for another time...

-Reha

[rsterbin]

oops, you wouldn't need to print the form under "Generate Data" if it's in the HTML below...

-Reha