[RESOLVED] Question about form Logic

[lauramayer]

Afternoon,

I can't seem to get my head around this even with pictures :queasy:

What I'm trying to do is from a form with three check boxes and the values ALA,PM and RA. The logic being if they chose ALA show these questions if PM show these questions if RA show these questions. Continue showing questions for each position until they run out of selections.

I was thinking the logic would be something like this for the first page. I know I have three chances to find out what option 1 is but after that I loose it to continue the logic. If someone could nudge me in the right direction that would be great.

Thanks in advance,

Laura

// start the session
session_start();
header("Cache-control: private"); //IE 6 Fix
// Get the user's input from the form 
$Position_Requested = '';
foreach($_POST['Position_Requested'] as $value)
{
$Position_Requested .= $value.",";
}
$pieces = explode(",", $Position_Requested);
$_SESSION['PosOne'] = $pieces[0];
$_SESSION['PosTwo'] = $pieces[1];
$_SESSION['PosThree'] = $pieces[2];
if ($_SESSION['PosOne'] == 'ALA' ) {
   header("Location: ALAQuest.php");
   exit; 
} elseif ($_SESSION['PosOne'] == 'RA' ){
   header("Location: RAQuest.php");
   exit; 
} else {
   header("Location: PMQuest.php");
   exit; 
}      

[m_tt]

Just to be clear, you have a form with 3 checkboxes for example

<input type="checkbox" name="Position_Requested" value="ALA"> ALA
<input type="checkbox" name="Position_Requested" value="PM"> PM
<input type="checkbox" name="Position_Requested" value="RS"> RS

You want to ask questions for each checkbox selected correct?

[m_tt]

I don't fully understand your need for storing session data (perhaps because you are redirecting to different php files for each position?) but maybe this will give you a idea...

form.html

<form method="POST" action="lauramayer.php">
	<input type="checkbox" name="Position_Requested[]" value="ALA"> ALA<BR>
	<input type="checkbox" name="Position_Requested[]" value="PM"> PM<BR>
	<input type="checkbox" name="Position_Requested[]" value="RS"> RS<BR>
	<input type="submit" value="Ask Questions">
</form>

lauramayer.php

foreach($_POST['Position_Requested'] as $Position_Requested)	{
	switch($Position_Requested)	{
		case "ALA":
			// echo ALA questions
		break;
		case "PM":
			// echo PM questions
		break;
		case "RS":
			// echo RS questions
		break;
	}
}

[lauramayer]

Yes but the input boxes are like this:

<input type="checkbox" name="Position_Requested[]" value="ALA"> ALA
<input type="checkbox" name="Position_Requested[]" value="PM"> PM
<input type="checkbox" name="Position_Requested[]" value="RS"> RS

And yes again I want to ask different questions for each one.

I do a foreach to put it in the database then explode it to do the logic.

Thanks for taking a look.

I just saw your second post. I was using the session as a test to see if I needed to send it across pages. Your solution is so much easier 🙂 I like to make things more difficult than it has to be.

Thanks again .