Display values of the form inside the table on the new page

[sharapov]

I am generating data from database and displaying it inside input text boxes (for users to make some changes). What I need to do is when user presses "submit" button display all of the results inside the table on the new opened page. How can I do it?

Here is the example of what I am trying to do without actual data and php:

http://home.pacbell.net/sharapov/form

 

[skiflyer]

Well, those textboxes need to be inside a form, along with the submit button.

Then, on the new opened page (the action of the form), you will be able to access those variables either in the $_POST or the $_GET array, depending on the method of the form.

Just to see where you stand, make the new page nice'n simple and do this

print &quot;<pre>&quot;;
print_r ($_POST);
print &quot;<HR>&quot;;
print_r ($_GET);

From there you should be good.

-Rob

 

[sharapov]

Well,

Text boxes are inside form already. Submit bution on the other hand doesn't have to be, because I can do onclick="document.form_name.submit()"

I know that you can read the values of the submited form with the $_POST or $_GET, but how can I:

1. Open a new page with just a "menu bar" on it , (I guess I can open new page if I set target="_blank", but how can I open it with just "menu bar" showing on the page)

2. How can I loop through the results from $_POST to insert them inside the table.

Thanks.

 

[skiflyer]

1st part is javascript

2nd part is

foreach ($_POST as $key=>$value) {
  echo $key.&quot;  &quot;.$value.&quot;<br>&quot;;
}

As to the javascript part, the only way I've accomplished this is using a button to call a javascript function which opens a new window using the
window.open(...) command, then using php or javascript to populate the URL with the proper $_GET variables.

the easiest way to achieve this would be to make your form submit via post to a helper page. This helper page writes the javascript, part of which is a foreach loop as above, which populates all the get variables... i.e. my loop above would change to

$query_string = "?";
foreach ($_POST as $key=>$value) {
$query_string.="$key=$value&";
}

I odn't think this is the best way, but it's the easiest.

G'luck!

-Rob

 

[sharapov]

skiflyer,

Thank you for your reply, but I seem to be confused a liitle bit on how you are trying to accoplish what I asked for.

First of all after I get all the values from $_POST how do I loop it to insert them in the table.

Second, how can I "using php or javascript to populate the URL with the proper $_GET variables"

And what is the "helper page"?

Finally, can you mix POST and GET together? I thought it's one or the other.

I'd really appreciate if you would post a more complete sample of the code.

Thanks.

 

[KempCGDR]

to put them in a table:

1) write the opening tags to the browser (<table><tr> etc)
2) write each variable between <td> and </td> tags

if you want to have a certain number of columns then use a variable to count the number you have outputted and when you get to how many you need, output </tr><tr>. Remember to output </table> at the end.

 

[sharapov]

KempCGDR,

Thank you for your reply, but you still haven't answer my question. How can I loop to get the values into the table! I know how table structured. But what I don't know is how to take all of the values from $_POST and put them into the table!

 

[KempCGDR]

skiflyer already told you that further up, he gave you the code to get each variable, the rest should be relatively easy to put together.

 

[skiflyer]

Yes, you can mix post and get together.

You indicated you wanted things to happen in a pop up rather than in the main page, hence the idea of using javascript and a helper page. I'd advise getting it working normally first.

So, make a normal form... then do just as Kemp suggested... here's about as complete an example as I have time for this week... (excuse my typos, I'm in vbscript mode right now)

echo &quot;<table>\n&quot;;
$columns = 3;
$cur_column = 0;
foreach ($_POST as $key=>value) {
  if ($cur_column == 0) {
    echo &quot;<tr>\n&quot;;
  }
  if ($cur_column < $columns) {
   echo &quot;<td><b>$key:</b>$value</td>\n&quot;;
   ++$cur_column;
  }
  if ($cur_column == $columns) {
    echo &quot;</tr>\n&quot;; 
    $cur_column = 0;
  }
}

not the neatest code ever... but I'm pretty sure it's functional