Continuous Form

[Daniel]

Hello,

Could someone explain/demonstrate how I can create a 'continuous
form' (similar to access) but in a webpage using php. What I am
trying to do is have and entry input, if the user enters info then
make another input available and so on. This way they can enter as
many items as they need. Then loop through each of their entry and
perform my action. If there is a proper web term for what I am trying
to accomplish could you please let me know so I start using the proper
terminology.

Thank you for the help.

Daniel

[ELINTPimp]

On Aug 10, 8:03 am, Daniel <[e-mail]:

Hello,

Could someone explain/demonstrate how I can create a 'continuous
form' (similar to access) but in a webpage using php. What I am
trying to do is have and entry input, if the user enters info then
make another input available and so on. This way they can enter as
many items as they need. Then loop through each of their entry and
perform my action. If there is a proper web term for what I am trying
to accomplish could you please let me know so I start using the proper
terminology.

Thank you for the help.

Daniel

It seems to me is that you want a simple updateable view of a database
table(s). (P.S. In database terminology, at least, it would be called
an updateable view).

Depending on your situation, this could be something very simple and
could/should(?) be done with a simple Active Record pattern...or could
get relatively complicated since there are so many variables. On the
UI...do you want to have a page refresh between new records or do you
want to leverage AJAX?

Check out some more information on the Active Record pattern (http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_record_pattern) and possibly something on
AJAX if you're so inclined (not a necessity, of course).

[Carl Vondrick]

ELINTPimp wrote:

No offense to DHTML, but in my opinion, all that DOM manipulation work
to just have to save the form once the user is complete seems like a
waste of time to me (most of the time).

Check out jQuery (http://jquery.com/). DOM manipulation is pretty stinkin'
easy with this.

[ELINTPimp]

On Aug 10, 11:59 am, Carl Vondrick <[e-mail]:

ELINTPimp wrote:

No offense to DHTML, but in my opinion, all that DOM manipulation work
to just have to save the form once the user is complete seems like a
waste of time to me (most of the time).

Check out jQuery (http://jquery.com/). DOM manipulation is pretty stinkin'
easy with this.

Indeed! jquery, prototype (http://www.prototypejs.org/), and
script.aculo.us (http://script.aculo.us/) are all great javaScript
libraries which also have built-in support for AJAX...cakePHP, which I
mentioned before, has helpers available for AJAX too. So, even if you
are using a library, if you have a situation that could benefit from
asynchronous transfers from the web server...not too much added voodoo
to make it AJAX capable. Thus my preference of AJAX over DHTML.

Now, with that said...even though I've been promoting AJAX, most of my
projects typically roll out without much (if any) DOM manipulation,
let alone AJAX. The situation will justify the time spent on a
project. I like to look at it as a cost/benefit angle. If I'm doing
some dynamic client side manipulation, and if AJAX can benefit the
situation, I'll do it every time.

[www.gerardvignes.com]

Geocities File Manager has an interesting solution.

You can transfer from 5 to 20 files in a single upload operation. The
default offering is 5, but you specify a number between 1 and 20. It
will present you with that many fields (each field is a file path).

This involves a trip to the server every time you change the count,
since the html is generated by the server and not DHTML. It does seem
to be an efficient approach, simply because you typically know how
many files you are going to upload. And if you ask for more fields
than you use, no problems, it ignores them.

It's not a sexy solution, but it works. I used it on and off for
almost 10 years. It is actually a very nice tool.

Gerard Vignes

[shror]

I have found another way that I think will be the solution but I don't
know how it really works,
in the CPanel file manager not the geocities, the CPanel file manager
when we upload just after we choose the file needed for uploading the
system automatically starts the process and after it finish the upload
process it opens up the browse button and input path filed once more
without any page load,
if anybody know how this system works please let me know and am sure
this will help the problem of bandwidth and server call.

shror

[Jerry Stuckle]

shror wrote:

I have found another way that I think will be the solution but I don't
know how it really works,
in the CPanel file manager not the geocities, the CPanel file manager
when we upload just after we choose the file needed for uploading the
system automatically starts the process and after it finish the upload
process it opens up the browse button and input path filed once more
without any page load,
if anybody know how this system works please let me know and am sure
this will help the problem of bandwidth and server call.

shror

Not hard to do with a little javascript. But this is a PHP newsgroup.

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