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Posted by noone on 03/14/06 00:21
Patrick Flaherty wrote:
> In article <1142281486.128350.236640@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, NC
says...
>>
>>Patrick Flaherty wrote:
>>>
>>> Experienced programmer but new to PHP. Moreover I'm to use PHP
>>> with Xoops on top (this adds object orientation?).
>>>
>>> I don't seem to find a xoops Usenet group?
>>
>>There's a support forum:
>>
>>http://www.xoops.org/modules/newbb/
>>
>>But I see that you already posted there...
>>
>>> Whatever the case (and presumably a Xoops property): how does one
>>> disable (grey-out) a button?
>>
>>The easiest way to disable a button is not to show it in the first
>>place. This is HTML, not desktop programming; a button is either a
>>submit button or a reset button. There is no such thing as a "do
>>nothing" button (unless it is defined outside a form). You can
>>override the button's default behavior using JavaScript's onClick event
>>hadler, but if the client has JavaScript disabled, the default behavior
>>will still occur.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>NC
>>
> Thanx for your responses,
> I'm actually asking on behalf of two other programmers here (at my company)
who
> are supposed to be more experienced Web/PHP programmers than myself.
> Or rather one knows PHP/Xoops quite well. The other one PHP but not Xoops.
The
> first guy is out at the moment and the second (who has to actually do the
work)
> keeps insisting that this (disabling a button) must be a Xoops object
property.
> I guess it's a Submit button in the sense that we want the button initially
> greyed out. Then once the user has filled in the required fields the button
> will detect this and become Active.
> And then clicking it will launch a perl script (that will reach over to
another
> platform [VMS] and generate a bunch of text data files).
> My idea of Web programming (probaby primitive) is html and javascript (or
ASPs).
> Since, however, the platform we're given is all PHP/Xoops this considerably
> muddies the waters for me.
> pat
Hey Pat,
Why not have this programmed on the VMS box using Apache/mod_php/mod_perl?
I have a vms box that does this natively.
As for the greyed-out button, this would need to be handled via javascript
do a search on javascript disable button. you will find a link like:
http://www.codetoad.com/javascript_validate_disable.asp
Just remember - you have to take into consideration what happens when
javascript is disabled - some people do no like it and will never enable
it...
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