Dtp1337 Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 Create an associative array that will be used in a form for a dropdown box for user to pick their favorite color. The entries should be:RedBlueGreenCyanMagentaYellowCreate a second associative array that will populate a set of radio buttons. The buttons should ask the user to choose their favorite type of food from following list.BarbequeChineseJapaneseThaiSteakVeganMexicanThe form should also ask for first and last name. Data should be validated. If invalid data is entered, and error should be displayed, otherwise, output the data. I have to create a form that sends the answers to the php. I don't understand where to put the arrays/ I have this but it don't seem right for the dropdown box.Even so after getting it to work how do I valid the information of a dropbox or radio button. I'm so confused. <body> <?php$color = array( 0=>"Red", 1=>"Blue", 2=>"Green", 3=>"Cyan", 4=>"Magenta", 5=>"Yellow");$food = array(0=>"Barbeque", 1>="Chinese", 2="Japanese", 3=>"Thai", 4=>"Steak", 5=>"Vegan", 6=>"Mexican"); $color = str_repalce(" "," ",$color);$food = str_replace(" "," ", $food);echo '<SELECT name=color>';echo '<SELECT name=food>';foreach ($color as $pick => $value){echo '<OPTION value='.$value.'>'.$value.;}echo '</select>'; ?> <form action="CISP1720-dpatter3-Lab7.php" method="post"> <p> Please provide your First Name. <input name="Fname" type="text" /><p/> <p> Please provide your Last Name. <input name="Lname" type="text" /><p/> <input type="submit" name="Submit" id="Submit" value="Submit"></body></html> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birbal Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 check using in_array() that submite field value is in array or not, if not show the errors. drop down menu should be inside the form tag. you need two loop to show two drop down for color and food. when form get submited the submited values are available inrto $_POST and $_GET array depending upon the method form submited or page requested. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesB Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 also, for an associative array, you'll probably want the arrays looking like: $color = array( 'Red' => true, 'Blue' => true, ...); (where the keys are strings) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dtp1337 Posted October 10, 2012 Author Share Posted October 10, 2012 (edited) ? This is what i've come up so far for the names and first array. It gives me a unexpected end error... !DOCTYPE HTML><html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title> Lab 8 </title></head><body><form action =" " method="post"><h1> Enter your First and Last name, then select your favorite color and food.</h1> <p> Please provide your First Name. <input name="Fname" type="text" /><p/> <p> Please provide your Last Name. <input name="Lname" type="text" /><p/> <h1> Choose your favorite color. </h1><?php $color["R"]="Red"; $color["B"]="Blue"; $color["G"]="Green"; $color["C"]="Cyan"; $color["M"]="Magenta"; $color["Y"]="Yellow"; ?> <select name = "color" id = "color"><?php foreach($color as $pick => $favorite) { echo "<option value=\"$favorite\"> $favorite </option> /n";?></select> <input type="submit" name="Submit" id="Submit" value="Submit"></form></body></html> Edited October 10, 2012 by Dtp1337 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justsomeguy Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 The foreach loop is missing the closing bracket. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dtp1337 Posted October 11, 2012 Author Share Posted October 11, 2012 (edited) lol found that already lol thanks now I need to validate that the color and the food is selected when submitted. How and where would i palce that in my php form. This is what I have for it. Also something I found that may conflict with validing the use of the drop list, would i need to make an empty entry into the list before "Red" so that it will force the user to select one unless they over look it completely. edit#1-5 : Also I have an extra empty drop box between my droplist and buttons. Why is it there. <!DOCTYPE HTML><html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title> Lab 8-F </title></head><body><form action =" " method="post"><h1> Enter your First and Last name then select your favorite color and food.</h1> <p> First Name: <input name="Fname" type="text" /><p/> <p> Last Name: <input name="Lname" type="text" /><p/><?php $color["R"]="Red"; $color["B"]="Blue"; $color["G"]="Green"; $color["C"]="Cyan"; $color["M"]="Magenta"; $color["Y"]="Yellow"; ?> <select name = "color" id = "color"><?php foreach($color as $pick => $favorite) { echo "<option value=\"$favorite\"> $favorite </option> \n"; }?></select> <?php $food["B"]="Barbeque"; $food["C"]="Chinese"; $food["J"]="Japanese"; $food["T"]="Thai"; $food["S"]="Steak"; $food["V"]="Vegan"; $food["M"]="Mexican"; ?> <select name = "food" id = "food"><?php foreach($food as $pick1 => $favorite1) { echo "<input type=\"radio\" name=\"favorite1\" value=\"favorite1\"> $favorite1\n"; }?> </select> <input type="submit" name="Submit" id="Submit" value="Submit"></form></body></html> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <html><head><meta a http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title> CISP1720 Lab 8</title></head> <h1> Lab 8 </h1><h3> </h3><body> <?php$Fname = $_POST['Fname'];$Lname = $_POST['Lname'];$color = $_POST['color'];$food = $_POST['food'];if(empty($Fname) || empty($Lname)) {echo <p> Please do not leave fields blank. </p>; } else if (is_numeric($Fname) || is_numeric(Lname)) { echo <p> Please do not use numbers in your name. </p>; } else if ( ?> </body></html> Edited October 11, 2012 by Dtp1337 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesB Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 (edited) name=\"favorite1\"should bename=\"food\" andvalue=\"favorite1\"should bevalue=\"$favorite1\" in: echo "<input type=\"radio\" name=\"favorite1\" value=\"favorite1\"> $favorite1\n"; the empty <select> is because of: <select name = "food" id = "food"> and </select> for validating the color and food you can use in_array() as birbal said.http://php.net/manua...on.in-array.php you could put the $color and $food arrays in 1 file, then include that file from your current 2 files (to save duplicating them)http://php.net/manua...ion.include.php Edited October 11, 2012 by JamesB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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