User Defined Function Issue

[lavapotato]

Here's the scoop....

I'm trying to create a form function which basically will allow me to rapidly deploy forms for sites.

I've created several user defined functions that allow me to display input boxes, validate submitted fields etc. That all seems to work just great. The issue I've come across is that I've created the following function...

function formtable($width,$tableheading,$bgcolor,$cellpadding,$cellspacing,$border, $class1='tdheader', $class2='tdnorm') {
GLOBAL $tableitems, $form;
print "<form method='$form[method]' action='$form[action]' name='$form[name]'>\n";
print "<table width='$width' bgcolor='$bgcolor' cellpadding='$cellpadding' cellspacing='$cellspacing' border='$border'>\n";
print "<tr>\n";
print "<td class='$class1' colspan='2'>$tableheading</td>\n";
print "</tr>";
foreach ($tableitems as $tkey=>$tvalue) {
print "<tr>\n";
print "<td class='$class2' valign='top'>$tkey</td>\n";
print "<td class='$class2'>";
print $tvalue;
print "</td>\n";
print "</tr>\n";
}
print "<tr>\n";
print "<td colspan='2' align='right'>";
submit(submit,submit,reset,reset);
print "</td>\n";
print "</tr>\n";
print "</table>\n";
print "</form>\n";
}

You'll notice that is has access to the GLOBAL variable $tableitems. This function will allow me to properly display my needed form elements into a nice table by parsing through the $tableitems array.

The table items is an associative array as follows...

$tableitems = array("Name"=>"inputdbase(Name',text,name,'select name from form where id=1',25)",
"Email"=>"textareadbase(Email,email,'select email from form where id=1')");

Basically what happens is that the key value in this array consists of another 1 of my user defined functions (eg. inputdbase).

The real issue is that when I run the formtable function everything works BUT I'm expecting it to display my user defined function eg. inputdbase, properly but it displays it as just text, not the input box I want. The function is not recognized. I've tried everything I can think of. I thought it had something to do with quotes and what not but I'm not to sure.

Is there something I'm missing or another workaround possibly? Any help or leads are appreciated.

Thanks.

[sarahk]

try

$tableitems = array( 
   "Name" => inputdbase('Name',text,name,'select name from form where id=1',25),
   "Email" => textareadbase(Email,email,'select email from form where id=1')
   ); 

I've taken out the " so that the function is run at the time you create the array. I also added a second single quote around 'Name'.

If you need it executed at the actual run time then have a look for some commands for executing strings. You can do it, I just can't remember and I'm not sure that's what you want.

good luck.

[lavapotato]

sarahk,

Thanks for your help. I actually found out what I was doing wrong.

In the array I am calling several functions such as inputdb etc. In that actual function I was printing the input box etc. So what I did was assign that value to a variable and then RETURN the variable. This worked.

eg.

function inputdbase($descriptor, $type, $name, $selectquery='no', $size=20, $maxlength=50, $class='formfield') {

	if($selectquery == 'no') { //not doing a query
		$print = "$descriptor: <input type='$type' name='$name' size='$size' maxlength='$maxlength' value='' class='$class'>\n";
		RETURN $print; 
	}
	else { //doing a query
		$query = mysql_query($selectquery);
		$row = mysql_fetch_array($query);
		$data = $row[$name];
		$print = "$descriptor: <input type='$type' name='$name' size='$size' maxlength='$maxlength' value='$data' class='$class'>\n";
		RETURN $print;
	}   	
}

See where I have $print, that use to be just print "....... " This was my issue.

Thanks for your help.