Posted by Mel on 07/11/06 14:05

On 2006-07-10 21:12:13 +1000, Mark Woodward
<markonlinux@internode.on.net> said:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to set up a 'control panel' consisting of a table of icons.
>
> The early stages: http://www.deepinit.com/controlcentre.php
>
> Each of these is set up like:
>
> <td>
> <input type="image" id="addnews" src="/Image/add24.png"
> name="addnews" value="addnews" width="24" height="24"><br />
> <label for="addnews">Add News Item</label><br />
> </td>
>
> This is all taking place in a html form and I'm using input
> type="image"... like 'submit' buttons.
> Is this a 'good' approach?
>
> I'm trying to handle the $_POST variable after a user clicks on one of
> these but there are differences between firefox and ie6.
> Using:
> foreach ($_POST as $key=>$val) {
> echo $key ."|". $val . "<br />";
> }
>
> ie6 is only listing
> addnews_x|8
> addnews_y|17
>
>
> Firefox:
> addnews_x|10
> addnews_y|13
> addnews|addnews
> Why am I getting x and y co-ordinates?
> Why in firefox do I get $val ('addnews|addnews') but not in ie6?
>
> What I'm trying to do is redirect to other pages based on $_POST:
>
> foreach ($_POST as $key=>$val) {
> switch (strtolower($key)) {
> case 'addnews_x':
> PostHandler('addnews', 'news', '/posteditor.php');
> break;
> case 'editnews_x':
> PostHandler('editnews', 'news', '/postsearch.php');
> break;
> case 'deletenews_x':
> PostHandler('deletenews', 'news', '/postsearch.php');
> break;
> ...
>
> function PostHandler($command, $post_type, $redir_page) {
> $_SESSION['ctlcentcmd'] = $command;
> $_SESSION['posttype'] = $post_type;
>
> ob_end_clean();
> header('Location: http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']
> . $redir_page);
> }
>
>
> This is working but I'm not happy basing this on the x co-ordinate
> (eg addnews_x). Surely there must be a better way?
>
> If you wanted to implement a similar icon based 'Control Centre' what
> approach would you take? The intent is to have a single page where the
> site admin can add/edit/delete news, articles, bios, user data, etc
>
>
> thanks for your help,

I'd be inclined to make them buttons and use CSS to style them out to
be images (turn off the borders, specify a width and height, set a
background-image). From there you can either use them to sumit to a
page using AJAX, JavaScript, or a plain old form.

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