[RESOLVED] Taking user input

Phpscrub

I am trying to display the text boxes so the user can enter data into an array according to the value of $story. How I do get this code to work without receiving a parse error? I understand the input statements should be outside the php delimiter but how do I control which set of textboxes I want to display.

<Html>
<body>
<h1> You have choosen </h1>
<form method ="post" action = "Project1_output.php">

<?php

$story = filter_input(Project1_input1_POST, "story_type");

if($story == "day")
{
<input type ="text" name = "dayArray[]"/></br>
<input type ="text" name = "dayArray[]"/></br>
<input type ="text" name = "dayArray[]"/></br>
<input type ="text" name = "dayArray[]"/></br>
<input type ="text" name = "dayArray[]"/></br>
<input type ="text" name = "dayArray[]"/></br>
}

if($story == "night")
{
<input type ="text" name = "nightArray[]"/></br>
<input type ="text" name = "nightArray[]"/></br>
<input type ="text" name = "nightArray[]"/></br>
<input type ="text" name = "nightArray[]"/></br>
<input type ="text" name = "nightArray[]"/></br>
<input type ="text" name = "nightArray[]"/></br>
}

<button type = "submit">
SUBMIT
</button>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Bonesnap

Can you post the parse error?

At first glance, I can see a definite parse error:

if($story == "day")
{
<input type ="text" name = "dayArray[]"/></br>
<input type ="text" name = "dayArray[]"/></br>
<input type ="text" name = "dayArray[]"/></br>
<input type ="text" name = "dayArray[]"/></br>
<input type ="text" name = "dayArray[]"/></br>
<input type ="text" name = "dayArray[]"/></br>
}

Your HTML needs to be outside of the <?php ?> tags, so you would want to write the above as something like this:

<?php
if($story == "day")
{
?>
    <input type ="text" name = "dayArray[]"/></br>
    <input type ="text" name = "dayArray[]"/></br>
    <input type ="text" name = "dayArray[]"/></br>
    <input type ="text" name = "dayArray[]"/></br>
    <input type ="text" name = "dayArray[]"/></br>
    <input type ="text" name = "dayArray[]"/></br>
    <?php
}?>

You can open and close the <?php ?> tags as you need to throughout your script. Optionally, if you really want to keep it all within one set of <?php ?> tags, you can echo out the HTML you want printed, though this is generally not recommended.

As for how you control which ones are displayed... well, that depends on the value of $story, right?

Phpscrub

This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you Bonesnap.

webdeveloper198

Good response, that should be fine. A good explanation can be found in the PHP tutorial at IT Learning. <a href="http://www.itlearning.net">Here</a>

webdeveloper198

Hmm, link tags no good, just type in as above, or here: IT Learning