Posted by Luke on 05/19/06 04:43

Hi! I am new to PHP but I am a very experienced in Perl/CGI/templates.

I work in medical informatics when we deal with very large data
collection forms. Some of them have over 1000 elements! Forms are not
outputted by PHP, they are designed by nurses using various visual HTML
editors /drag & drop/.

Ok, it is relatively easy to get all the fields submitted into the
MySQL server. But there is always a chance of a data entry error or a
form has to be printable (as it looks when being filled out, with all
visual elements). It means we have to retrieve all values and present
them on the screen (ready to be resubmitted).

So I wonder what would experienced PHP users do here. Are there any
special Classes/modules that would take an html file and insert the
values into corresponding <input> elements? Or anything what could make
my life easier?

Or is it really the only way to get it worked to place 1000 <?php echo
"value=$value" ?> inserts in my HTML code?

That's a VERY TEDIOUS WORK!!!

Thanks,
Luke

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