my stupid assignment

[Kat]

ok i've given up on this stupid assignment! can someone help me.

the question and examples we were given can be seen at:
www.deakin.edu.au/~kcau/MSC345_Ass_2003.pdf
www.deakin.edu.au/~kcau/craft1.pdf
www.deakin.edu.au/~kcau/craft2.pdf
www.deakin.edu.au/~kcau/craft3.pdf

and if you want to see waht i have done so far go to:
www.deakin.edu.au/~kcau/craft1.php.

please someone help me do this assignment, I am desprate!
Kat

[marque]

Hi Kat,

Provide the 'gist' of the assignment rather than the links to the documents that are >= 1 100 words.

[Kat]

i tried giving the gist of it before but i got no reply, bsiclly i need to know how to get the value of check box (which was dynamically created, its an array) from one php file to another php file so that i can disply the informtion associated with that, which is stored in csv file. hope you cn help
Kat

[marque]

to make multiple checkbox's form an array you need to put [] at the end of the name eg:

<input type=checkbox" name="myvalue[]" value="yes">

myvalue when using the methods POST or GET becomes an array called $myvalue with as many variables which was sent. If a check box has not been checked there is no element for it in the array when it gets to the next file.

hope this helps.

By the way where abouts in Melbourne are you from?

[Kat]

yeah that does help, thanx, how do i get to use it in the next file, i want it to display the information from the check box, and use it to search a csv file and diplay the rest of the information in a table.

I live in werribee, and go to uni in geelong.

thanx again for the help

Kat

[marque]

you need to do a foreach statement

foreach($myvalue as $val)
   {
   // your data gets pulled out here
   }

for me to be a little more specific I would need to see the csv file.

[Kat]

i have given the for each thing ago, and i am just to dumb to work it out. i have attached the csv file, it is just a comma dilimated file. i will show you the code that created the code in the check box in the first place:

<td>
<input type='checkbox' name='$courseinfo[]' value='$s' onclick='calculate_total($cost, this)'>$course_name
</td>

thats in the first php file then in the next file '$courseinfo[]' needs to be called so that i can search the csv file (courses.csv) for the information corrisponding to the array.

if you want to see what i have done (sorta you cant actually see craft2.php cause there are errors) go to: www.deakin.edu.au/~kcau/craft1.php

thanx
Kat

[Kat]

attachments won't allow csv files for some reason sorry. and the site i told you is temporarily not working

[scoppc]

I think you gotta set the value of each courseinfo[] checkbox to the course code ONLY. Dont include the session details as it will make your life harder. 🙂

$courseinfo=$_POST['courseinfo'];
if (is_array($courseinfo)){
    foreach ($courseinfo as $code){
    //$code contains the course code taken from $courseinfo
                 if ($code!=""){
                 //when the code is NOT empty
                 //you can do anything here using the $code variable
                 //foreach will keep looping until the end of array
                 //you can try to print the $code
                         print "User has selected this course: " . $code . "<br>";
                 }
    }
}

[Kat]

you are a genius!, thank you soooooooooo much that was perfect. 😃
i am eternally grateful to you.
Kat