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Posted by Simon on 03/13/06 20:10
Why not use an in memory table and with each choice placed in the table and
referenced via a session_id/user_id.
What do you mean by blanks?
simon
<haggis@_your_teeth_nerdshack.com> wrote in message
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> Our restaurant is developing a Delivery service and I'm wondering
> how to handle the choices the customers will make on-line.
> Stripped of the cosmetics, this is the display of the whole menu
> (which is compiled from the output of several different menus -
> "Starters", "Main Courses", "Salads", etc).
>
> The restaurant is developing a Delivery service and I'm wondering
> how to handle the choices the on-line customers will make.
> This bare-bones display of the choices works fine -
>
> $TableName="menus";
> $Query="SELECT * FROM $TableName order by menu_id";
> $Result=mysql_db_query ($DBName, $Query, $Link);
> while ($Row=mysql_fetch_array ($Result))
> {
> $list_of_menus[]=$Row[menu_name];
> }
> $count=count($list_of_menus);
> $count=$count-1;
> $n="0";
> while ($n<=$count)
> {
> print("<form method=post action=take_away_handle.php>");
> print("<table>");
> $TableName=$list_of_menus[$n];
> $Query="SELECT * FROM $TableName order by dish_id";
> $Result=mysql_db_query ($DBName, $Query, $Link);
> while ($Row=mysql_fetch_array ($Result))
> {
> print("<tr><td>$Row[dish]</td><td>$Row[cost] <input
> TYPE=\"checkbox\" NAME=\"$list_of_menus[$]\" VALUE=\"$Row[dish]\">
> </td><td><input type=text name=\"number\" size=2></td></tr>");
> }
> $++;
> }
>
>
>
> All that works just fine, unrolling the 80-odd dishes in our menu
> down the screen, but... how do I handle the output? I'm guessing
> it would be best to write each set of customer choices to a file,
> its filename being composed of the customer surname, but how do I
> handle the blank items? Are they, indeed, passed by the form?
>
> (Guess who's never used check-boxes before? Go on, guess - you'll
> never guess...)
>
> TIA.
>
> All that works just fine, unrolling the 80-odd dishes in our menu
> down the screen, but... how do I handle the output? I'm guessing
> it would be best to write each set of customer choices to a file,
> with the filename being the customer name, but how do I handle the
> blank items? Are they, indeed, passed by the form?
> And how do I handle multiple items (several people ordering
> different dishes from the "Main Courses", for instance)?
>
> (Guess who's never used check-boxes before? Go on, guess - you'll
> never guess...)
>
> TIA.
> Remove _your_teeth_ to reply.
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