Making a check box .. help

zander

I would liek to make a check box and a choose from list thingy.

so like if box is checked then print HI... if not then do nothing.

dalecosp

And what have you got thus far?

zander

nothing.... I don't know what commands even do that.

dalecosp

So, you have no HTML?

And, no PHP?

Or, you have the HTML but no PHP. If you've nothing, you need to start . . .

zander

*POOF!

There's what I need it to do.

<p>I would the the form below to create an html output</p>
<p>How any links are you adding ?
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="name2" SIZE="5">
( this should generate number of forms needed ) </p>
<p>
<SELECT NAME="Favorite_Color" SIZE="1">
<OPTION SELECTED>--Choose Catagory--
<OPTION>Catagory 1
<OPTION>Catagory 2
<OPTION>Catagory 3

</SELECT>
( a different picture will apper for each Catagory ) </p>
<p>
Enter path to file in box

<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="name" SIZE="30">
(
the path will automaticaly turn into a link ) </p>
<INPUT TYPE="submit">
<INPUT TYPE="reset">

dalecosp

OK, so the handler might be something like:

<?php

# check for bad input
if (!is_numeric($_POST['name2'])) {
   die("You must enter a number of links!");
}

$num_links=$_POST['name2'];
$category=$_POST['Favorite_Color'];
$linkname=$_POST['name'];

// example output only; you'll want to make this look like you want it...

echo "<p>
Thanks!  We'll add your $link_num links in $category right away!
</p>
";

?>

Several things aren't clear, like is the path a local machine path or a URI? How are you going to hold information across page loads? And many more. But now you're started 😉

zander

I just need a form that will allow me to update my website. The site is expanding and doing everythign manually is starting to take up too much time.

Your script doesn't have an input button.

zander

thx, got everythign working. 🙂