Text Box in While Loop

bjblackmore

Hi,

I'm pulling information from a table then displaying in on a page, I also need to have a text box displayed on the left of the text, so you have....

The number of options will vary, from day to day, and I need the text box to have a different name from each other, textbox1, textbox2 etc, how do do this, in the name field, I need to increment the name with +1.

Also when users press submit, an e-mail is generated and sent off. I need it so if someone enters the value '1' into a textbox the Option is entered into the email. But if a value isn't entered, the option isn't put into the email
i.e.

3 Ice Cream
1 Cake
1 Fruit

(No Yogurt Selected)
Can this be done?
I had it with radio buttons, I just gave the button the value of $row[0].
Cheers
Ben

bjblackmore

Code i've been using so far..
$sql = "SELECT description FROM menu WHERE menu='$menu' && course='main'";
$result=db_query($sql); if (!$result) { echo '
<div align="center"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Sorry
Meal Available</font></div>
'; } else { while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)){ echo '
<tr>
<td width="7%">
<div align="right"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<input type="radio" name="radiobutton2" value="'.$row[0].'">
</font></div>
</td>
<td width="93%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">'.$row[0].'</font></td>
</tr>

This would give me radio buttons so i could select 1 course, and press submit, and the email has the value of $row[0].
However rather that picking 1 option from main course, then 1 from desserts, I need to be able to pick 3 different main courses, each with 2 ice creams etc..
If this makes sense!
Ben

ace21

try this

while(all options are being displayed)
echo "<input type=text name=textfield[]>\n";

this will give you an array of text fields starting at 0. on the submit page just loop through the array and verify if anything was entered.

for($i=0;$i<count($textfield);$i++)
if($textfield[$i] != '')
then they entered something so do something

hope this helps
Ace21