Doubling forms/ inputs

zander

I'm not to sure how I should start this. Nor do I have an example that I can show you, so I will just try my best to explain.

Here's what I need to do.

How many input boxes would you like ? [ 1-10 ]

now accorind to what was entered in the { } that number of boxes shows up on the screen.

This would be used for extra upload input boxes and extra lines in a form.

I just want to copy the fields and have then have their own out puts.

devinemke

<?php
echo '<form action="" method="POST">';
if (!isset($_POST['submit'])) 
{ 
    echo '
    How many input boxes would you like?<br> 
    <select name="number"> 
    '; 
    for ($i = 1; $i <= 10; $i++) 
    { 
        echo '<option>' . $i; 
    } 
    echo ' 
    </select><br> 
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit"> 
    '; 
} 
else 
{ 
    for ($i = 1; $i <= $_POST['number']; $i++) 
    { 
        echo $i . '. <input type="text" name="' . $i . '"><br>'; 
    } 
} 
echo '</form>';
?>

zander

I got these two so far. Go through form.php, choose 2 or 3 then press the first submit. Enter image name, Enter link, Enter comment for all fields. then submit.
Now notice that only the last field that you have filled out only shows. Why is that ?

Form

<?php 
if (!isset($_POST['submit'])) 
{ 
    echo ' 
    <form action="" method="POST"> 
    How many input boxes would you like?<br> 
    <select name="number"> 
    '; 
    for ($i = 1; $i <= 10; $i++) 
    { 
        echo '<option>' . $i; 
    } 
    echo ' 
    </select><br> 
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit"> 
    </form> 
    '; 
} 
else 
{ 
    for ($i = 1; $i <= $_POST['number']; $i++) 
    { 
echo $i . '.<br>'; 

echo '
<form action="output.php" method="post" >
      <td width="5%">Image</td>
      <td width="16%"> <input type="text" name="imagename"></td>
      <td width="4%">Link</td>
      <td width="16%"><input type="text" name="filelink"></td>
      <td width="7%">comments</td>
      <td width="52%"> <TEXTAREA NAME="comments" COLS=50 ROWS=1 WRAP=VIRTUAL></TEXTAREA>
	    </td>



<BR><BR>
';

 } 
} 

echo '<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
          <input name="Reset" type="reset" id="Reset" value="Reset">';
?> 


</form>

output

<?

$filename = $_POST["imagename"];
$filelink = $_POST["filelink"];
$comments = $_POST["comments"];

?>




<!-- end PHP  -->

<html>
<head>
<title>output</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>


<br>
    <? echo $imagename; ?> <br>
    <? echo $filelink; ?>  <br>
    <? echo $comments; ?> <br>
</p>

devinemke

<?php
if (!isset($_POST['submit']))
{ 
	echo '    

	<form action="" method="POST">
	step 1:<br>
	How many input boxes would you like?<br>
	<select name="number">
	'; 

for ($i = 1; $i <= 10; $i++)
{
	echo '<option>' . $i;
} 

echo '
</select><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="go to step 2">
<form>
'; 
}

if (isset($_POST['submit']) && $_POST['submit'] == 'go to step 2')
{ 
	echo '    

	<form action="" method="POST">
	step 2:<br>
	<table border="1">
	<tr>
	<td>#</td>
	<td>image:</td>
	<td>link:</td>
	<td>comments:</td>
	</tr>
	';

for ($i = 1; $i <= $_POST['number']; $i++) 
{ 
	echo '
	<tr>
	<td>' . $i . '.</td>
	<td><input type="text" name="data[' . $i . '][imagename]"></td>
	<td><input type="text" name="data[' . $i . '][filelink]"></td>
	<td><textarea name="data[' . $i . '][comments]" cols="50" rows="1" wrap="virtual"></textarea></td>
	</tr>
	';
}

echo '
</table>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="go to step 3">
</form>
';
}

if (isset($_POST['submit']) && $_POST['submit'] == 'go to step 3')
{
	echo '
	you entered:<br>
	<table border="1">
	<tr>
	<td>#</td>
	<td>image:</td>
	<td>link:</td>
	<td>comments:</td>
	</tr>
	';

foreach ($_POST['data'] as $key => $value)
{
	echo '
	<tr>
	<td>' . $key . '.</td>
	<td>' . $value['imagename'] . '</td>
	<td>' . $value['filelink'] . '</td>
	<td>' . $value['comments'] . '</td>
	</tr>
	';
}

echo '</table>';
}
?>

zander

How would I get the result to display horizontaly instead of vertically ?

<?php 
if (!isset($_POST['submit'])) 
{  

    echo '     

    <form action="" method="POST"> 
    step 1:<br> 
    How many input boxes would you like?<br> 
    <select name="number"> 
    ';  

for ($i = 1; $i <= 10; $i++) 
{ 
    echo '<option>' . $i; 
}  

echo ' 
</select><br> 
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="go to step 2"> 
<form> 
';  
} 

if (isset($_POST['submit']) && $_POST['submit'] == 'go to step 2') 
{  

    echo '     

    <form action="" method="POST"> 
    step 2:<br> 
    <table border="1"> 
    <tr> 
    <td>#</td> 
    <td>image:</td> 
    <td>link:</td> 
    <td>comments:</td> 
    </tr> 
    '; 

for ($i = 1; $i <= $_POST['number']; $i++)  
{  
    echo ' 
    <tr> 
    <td>' . $i . '.</td> 
    <td><input type="text" name="data[' . $i . '][imagename]"></td> 
    <td><input type="text" name="data[' . $i . '][filelink]"></td> 
    <td><textarea name="data[' . $i . '][comments]" cols="50" rows="1" wrap="virtual"></textarea></td> 
    </tr> 
    '; 
} 

echo ' 
</table> 
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="go to step 3"> 
</form> 
'; 
} 

if (isset($_POST['submit']) && $_POST['submit'] == 'go to step 3') 
{ 
    echo ' <table width="82" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5">

'; 

foreach ($_POST['data'] as $key => $value) 
{ 
    echo ' 


<tr><td>' . $value['imagename'] . '</td></tr>
<tr> <td>' . $value['filelink'] . '</td></tr>
<tr> <td> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" 
                        size=2> ' . $value['comments'] . ' </font> </td></tr>

    '; 
} 

echo '</table>'; 
} 
?>

devinemke

zander wrote:
How would I get the result to display horizontaly instead of vertically?

look again at my last example above. it does display horizontaly.

zander

first line is image
second is link
third is comment

I mean lile this

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... and so on..
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

not like this

1 1 1
2 2 2
3 3 3

THe outputs have to be next to each other, not below.