Text Field

walbert

Hi,

I have this code, but I want to add a text field to it so that someone can enter quantities... When they put in 5, in one product only, this information and only this is entered into an orders database... I can't seem to get the text field working

// This selects all the products in a table... But can't get the text field working

[INDENT]$query = mysql_query("SELECT ProductId,company, name, price FROM products")
or die("SELECT Error: ".mysql_error());
$num_rows = mysql_num_rows($query);
//print "There are $num_rows records.<P>";
print"<body bgcolor=#f0f8ff text=red><center><b><img src = bannsplash01.gif><img src = bannsplash02_sharon.jpg><br><br>Welcome to the IBTS blood Donation viewing facility!</b></center><p></body>\n";
print"<center>\n";
print "<table width=500 border=10 bgcolor=FFFFFF>\n";
print"<th><b>Barcode</b></th><th><b>Company</b></th><th><b>name</b></th>><th><b>Price</b></th>\n";
while ($get_info = mysql_fetch_row($query)){ 


print "<tr>\n";


foreach ($get_info as $field) 
print "\t<td><font face=arial size=1/>$field</font></td>\n";
print "</tr>\n";
}
print "</table><p>\n";
print"<a href=mainShop.php target ='_parent'><b>BACK</b></a><br /><br/>\n";
print "</center>\n";[/INDENT]

exit;

Any help would be great,

Cheers,

Bob

jkurrle

Maybe it's my lack of sleep, but I don't even see any kind of input box in your code at all.

Input boxes are part of the HTML <form> set. To create an input box that has any relevance, you must put it in a form that is set to some kind of action. Here's an example:

<form method="post" action="/cgi/php/process_form.php">
Please enter the amount you want:
<input type="text" name="Donation_Amount" />
<br />
</form>

When a person types in the amount and hits <Enter>, this will redirect the user to a processing script called process_form.php . Also, you could add a button if you wanted, but in this example it is superfluous.

The only way that I know of PHP creating an input text box is through echoing or printing the appropriate HTML commands to the screen.

Hope this helps.

walbert

I did have something like that, but I couldn't get the position of the text field in the table in the rest of the information

jkurrle

Set your <form> tags outside of your <table> tags. Then, you will be able to use the <input> tag inside of the table correctly.