Posted by shimmyshack on 04/19/07 09:00

On Apr 19, 5:28 am, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> sgotte...@yahoo.com wrote:
> > Hello,
> > If you could assist me with the following situation, I would be very
> > grateful.
>
> > I have a table of data retrieved from database displayed on screen.
> > To each row of data, I have added action buttons, such as "Edit",
> > "Add", and "Comment". Since I do not know how many rows of data will
> > be retrieved - and therefore how many buttons I need - I am using
> > button arrays for each button, like so:
> > echo "<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Comment\" name=\"Comment[]\" />";
>
> > In the php file that processes the input from this form, I have the
> > following code, which I was under the impression would give me the
> > index in the Comment array of the button that was fired.
> > if (isset($_POST['CommentMedicalHistory']))
> > {
> > $indexOfComment = each($_POST['CommentMedicalHistory']);
> > echo "index = {$indexOfComment['key']}";
> > }
> > Unfortunately, it is returning 0 as the index all the time, even when
> > I do not click on the Comment button in the first row.
> > Do you know by any chance how I could get the correct index of the
> > button that was pressed from the array?
>
> > Thank you, once again, for any assistance that you can provide,
> > Simon Gottesman
>
> Simon,
>
> Since you can only press one button to submit your form, you will only
> get one button back - and it's index will always be zero. In the case
> of a submit button, the brackets in 'name="Comment[]"' are superfluous -
> you can't get back more than one button.
>
> What you want is to get the id of the row (you do have a unique ID for
> each row, right?) and use it in your name, i.e.
>
> " ... name=\"comment[$id]\" ... "
>
> Now you can get the $_POST['comment'] array and check your key to get
> the id of the row.
>
> No javascript or DOM needed.
>
> Of course, there are other ways, but I like this one.
>
> --
> ==================
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> Jerry Stuckle
> JDS Computer Training Corp.
> jstuck...@attglobal.net
> ==================

i suppose it could be added that the [] technique /can/ be very useful
if you are making many comments at once, which is what I assumed.
another eg. When you are /submitting/ a lot of inputs each with unique
values which taken together mean something, for instance a series of
ordered triples, like 3D coordinates.
As Jerry points out, you don't need js if you print out the full DOM
in markup, you are advised to use paging with a LIMIT BY clause in
your sql, to ensure things don't grow unmanageably as the data in the
table grows.

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