Populating form fields with letters of a name parsed in a variable from a previous fo

[rkwinternet]

Hi,

Sorry, I ran out of title space! it should have read...

"Populating form fields with letters of a name parsed in a variable
from a previous form"

What I'm trying to do, and need help with, is taking each letter of
a name parsed from a previous form in a var called "name" and
displaying each letter in a separate row so that customers can
choose a letter colour and peg colour for each one.

The form so far can be seen at: http://www.cherves.com/shop/hang.php

The code so far, I've added comments as to what I'm doing in the
code:

<?php if (!isset($cfm)) { ?> //checks form to display
<form action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF; ?>" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cfm" value="1"> //form reference
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="5">
<tr align="left">
<td colspan="2" valign="middle"><h2>Hang Your Name Out to
Dry</h2></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="middle"><img
src="graphics/hang.jpg" width="150" height="86"></td>
<td width="50%" align="center"
valign="middle"><p><strong>Hang Your Name
Out to Dry</strong> - from Annabel to Zoe and Adam to
Zachariah -
<strong>Price dependent on number of
letters</strong></p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right" valign="middle"><strong>Name:</strong></td>
<td align="center" valign="middle"> <input name="name"
type="text"></td> // var called "name"
</tr>
<tr align="left">
<td colspan="2" valign="middle">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="middle">&nbsp;</td>
<td align="center" valign="middle"> <input type="submit"
name="Submit" value="Submit"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
<?php }

elseif ($cfm == 1) { ?> //checks which form to display
<form action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF; ?>" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cfm" value="2">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="5">
<tr align="left">
<td colspan="2" valign="middle"><h2>Hang Your Name Out to
Dry</h2></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right"
valign="middle"><strong>Quantity:</strong></td>
<td width="50%" align="left" valign="middle"><?php echo
$quantity = strlen($name); ?></td> // Checks how many letters have
been sent from previous form, puts the number into var
called "quantity"
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="right" valign="middle">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0"
cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td align="center"
valign="middle"><strong>Letter</strong></td>
<td align="center" valign="middle"><strong>Letter
Colour</strong></td>
<td align="center" valign="middle"><strong>Peg
Colour</strong></td>
</tr>
<?php
for ($i = 1; $i <= $quantity; $i++) { ?> //
Counts the number of letters required in order to display a row per
letter
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="middle">
<input name="<?php echo "Letter" . $i; ?>"
type="text" size="3"> // Allocates a number to the "Letter" field to
make it unique eg name="Letter1" and so on
</td>
<td align="center" valign="middle"> <select name="<?
php echo "LetterColour" . $i; ?>">
<option value="Red">Red</option>
<option value="Blue">Blue</option>
<option value="Yellow">Yellow</option>
<option value="Purple">Purple</option>
<option value="Green">Green</option>
</select></td>
<td align="center" valign="middle"> <select name="<?
php echo "PegColour" . $i; ?>">
<option value="Wood">Wood</option>
<option value="Blue">Blue</option>
<option value="Yellow">Yellow</option>
<option value="Purple">Purple</option>
<option value="Green">Green</option>
</select></td>
</tr>
<?php } ?>
</table>

I guess I've got to strip out the letters individually from the var
called $name and allocate each one to it's appropriate row built
from the "for" statement.

TIA.

Richard

[rkwinternet]

Moving on from my last post, what I have done is to replace the for
statement with the following
code:

<?php
for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($name); $i++) { ?>
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="middle"><strong><?php echo
$name[$i]; ?></strong>
</td>
<td align="center" valign="middle"> <select name="<?
php echo "LetterColour_" . $name[$i]; ?>">
<option value="Red">Red</option>
<option value="Blue">Blue</option>
<option value="Yellow">Yellow</option>
<option value="Purple">Purple</option>
<option value="Green">Green</option>
</select></td>
<td align="center" valign="middle"> <select
name="PegColour" id="PegColour">
<option value="Wood">Wood</option>
<option value="Blue">Blue</option>
<option value="Yellow">Yellow</option>
<option value="Purple">Purple</option>
<option value="Green">Green</option>
</select></td>
</tr>
<?php } ?>

This has successfully taken each letter from the var called name and
put it in a row (under the heading letter) so far so good.

See http://www.cherves.com/shop/hang.php

But here's the catch...

I have successfully appended each letter to the two select name
fields to give them unique form name fields.

However, now that the letters of the name are being used in the for
statement if a name like "david" is used there are two "d"s in it
and this renders the form name fields non-unique and I need these
for parsing on to the third form.

Here is the resulting outputted html code using "david" as the name ( see first and last form fields with the letter "d"):

<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="middle"><strong>Letter</strong></td>
<td align="center" valign="middle"><strong>Letter Colour</strong></td>
<td align="center" valign="middle"><strong>Peg Colour</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>

<td align="center" valign="middle"><strong>d</strong>
</td>
<td align="center" valign="middle"> <select name="LetterColour_d">
<option value="Red">Red</option>
<option value="Blue">Blue</option>
<option value="Yellow">Yellow</option>
<option value="Purple">Purple</option>
<option value="Green">Green</option>
</select></td>
<td align="center" valign="middle"> <select name="PegColour_d">
<option value="Wood">Wood</option>
<option value="Blue">Blue</option>
<option value="Yellow">Yellow</option>
<option value="Purple">Purple</option>
<option value="Green">Green</option>
</select></td>
</tr>
<tr>

<td align="center" valign="middle"><strong>a</strong>
</td>
<td align="center" valign="middle"> <select name="LetterColour_a">
<option value="Red">Red</option>
<option value="Blue">Blue</option>
<option value="Yellow">Yellow</option>
<option value="Purple">Purple</option>
<option value="Green">Green</option>
</select></td>
<td align="center" valign="middle"> <select name="PegColour_a">
<option value="Wood">Wood</option>
<option value="Blue">Blue</option>
<option value="Yellow">Yellow</option>
<option value="Purple">Purple</option>
<option value="Green">Green</option>
</select></td>
</tr>
<tr>

<td align="center" valign="middle"><strong>v</strong>
</td>
<td align="center" valign="middle"> <select name="LetterColour_v">
<option value="Red">Red</option>
<option value="Blue">Blue</option>
<option value="Yellow">Yellow</option>
<option value="Purple">Purple</option>
<option value="Green">Green</option>
</select></td>
<td align="center" valign="middle"> <select name="PegColour_v">
<option value="Wood">Wood</option>
<option value="Blue">Blue</option>
<option value="Yellow">Yellow</option>
<option value="Purple">Purple</option>
<option value="Green">Green</option>
</select></td>
</tr>
<tr>

<td align="center" valign="middle"><strong>i</strong>
</td>
<td align="center" valign="middle"> <select name="LetterColour_i">
<option value="Red">Red</option>
<option value="Blue">Blue</option>
<option value="Yellow">Yellow</option>
<option value="Purple">Purple</option>
<option value="Green">Green</option>
</select></td>
<td align="center" valign="middle"> <select name="PegColour_i">
<option value="Wood">Wood</option>
<option value="Blue">Blue</option>
<option value="Yellow">Yellow</option>
<option value="Purple">Purple</option>
<option value="Green">Green</option>
</select></td>
</tr>
<tr>

<td align="center" valign="middle"><strong>d</strong>
</td>
<td align="center" valign="middle"> <select name="LetterColour_d">
<option value="Red">Red</option>
<option value="Blue">Blue</option>
<option value="Yellow">Yellow</option>
<option value="Purple">Purple</option>
<option value="Green">Green</option>
</select></td>
<td align="center" valign="middle"> <select name="PegColour_d">
<option value="Wood">Wood</option>
<option value="Blue">Blue</option>
<option value="Yellow">Yellow</option>
<option value="Purple">Purple</option>
<option value="Green">Green</option>
</select></td>
</tr>
</table>

Any ideas on how to get unique form name fields under these
crcumstances?

There may be slight changes to the code on the site coz I'm still
trying to resolve these problems.

TIA.

Richard