[RESOLVED] Forms

[alfoxy]

Hi All,

This is kind of a javascript problem because of the way I have set up the php so maybe there is a different way to do it.

I have a list of inputs in a form. They are dynamically created in a loop as array values e.g.

<? for($i=0; $i<5; $i++) { ?>
      <input name="new_item_brand[]" type="text" id="brand" size="9">
      <input name="new_item_ref[]" type="text" id="brand" size="9">

<? } ?>

When the form is submitted I search these inputs by:

for($i=0; $i<5; $i++) 
   {		

$upd_query = "UPDATE quote_details SET
qte_ref = '".$qte_ref."', 
            item_ref = '".$item_ref[$i]."";
   }

This works fine.

The problem is that I want to access the form field using javascript but it doesnt seem to like the square brackets []

<a href="#" 
onClick="window.open('stocksearch.php?search='+qte_form.new_item_ref[<?=$i?>]);">
CLICK</a>

or

<a href="#" 
onClick="window.open('stocksearch.php?search='+qte_form.new_item_ref[]);">
CLICK</a>

Does anyone have a solution to the javascript or a PHP solution?

Thanks for any help

Alan

[anakadote]

Use the input id instead. And id's should be unique, so no two elements should share the same id on a page:

<?php
   for($i=0; $i<5; $i++) { 
?>
      <input name="new_item_brand[]" type="text" id="brand_<?php echo $i; ?>" size="9">
      <input name="new_item_ref[]" type="text" id="ref_<?php echo $i; ?>" size="9">

<?php
   } 
?>

You should also use <?php instead of the shorthand <? to avoid conflicts in PHP >= 5.

[alfoxy]

Perfect!

That was exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks a million

Al