Posted by Chris on 10/18/05 08:26

Bruce Gilbert wrote:

>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: "Richard Lynch" <ceo@l-i-e.com>
>To: "Mark Rees" <mrees@itsagoodprice.com>
>Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:12:50 -0500 (CDT)
>Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: a couple of problems with PHP form
>On Mon, October 17, 2005 5:32 am, Mark Rees wrote:
>
>
>>-----------------------------------------------------
>>sorry, my editor has not indented again
>>-----------------------------------------------------
>>also, I want the field to appear hilighted when there is no
>>information so I am doing this:
>>
>><input class="<? if($error_msg){ echo "error"; } ELSE { echo
>>"normal"; } id="firstname" name="firstname" type="text"
>>value="{$_POST['firstname']}"? />"
>>
>>
>I think the quote mark balancing is messed up here...
>
>
>><input class="
>>this starts a quote for the class=
>>There appears to be no ending quote for that...
>>
>>
>I>t may simply have been lost in email editing, however...
>
>
>adding the input.error didn't solve the problem dang it.! If there is
>a ending quote missing, I don't see it right off hand.
>
>I know have:
>
>
><input class="<? if($error_msg){ echo "input.error"; } ELSE { echo
>"input.normal"; } id="firstname" name="firstname" type="text"
>value="{$_POST['firstname']}"? />"
>
>
>
Shouldn't you jsut be echoing "error" or "normal" . A period isn't
allowed in a class dafinition, and the css will work for all elements of
type input with a class of error. Also you don't seem to be closing the
PHP tag at the right place

This is how I would do what it looks like you're trying to do.

<input class="<?php echo !empty($error_msg)?'error':'normal'?>" id="firstname" name="firstname" type="text" value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_POST['firstname'])?>" />


Chris

>in the css:
>
>input.error {
> border: 2px inset red;
> margin:0;
> font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
> color: #036;
> width: 15em;
> padding-left: .25em;
> font-weight: bold;
> background: #eee;
>}
>
>
>

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