artsapimp — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:22:15 +0000

The rst("To") is a numeric value. It is not a URL.

It works perfectly now. I just didn't test it before because the action didn't look like it was changing.

Thank you again for your help.

Adrian J. Moreno — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:15:54 +0000

Ok, you have

Which is way too much.

Break down the radio button:

this.value MEANS the value of the current radio button - the one you clicked on, so you do not replace that with ASP code.

What is the final output when you've rendered Value="

<?php
= rst("To")
?>

"? is it an asp page with a querystring?

It should be something to the effect of
value="SetSessions.asp?Step=1&Value=2"

And you won't see the changed action page reference in the source code, you'll only see the default action page that you wrote in. The JavaScript tells the browser to change to a different action page - it doesn't write it out.

artsapimp — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:06:30 +0000

Is it because of the tables?

artsapimp — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:57:04 +0000

I am not getting an error, but nothing happens. I view the source and it doesn't seem to be changing the value of the Form's Action. Here's some of my code. Am I doing something wrong?

<?php
<form action=\"SetSessions.asp\" method=\"Post\" name=\"StepList\"><table width=\"350\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"Table\">
                                                <tr>
                                                    <td colspan=\"2\" class=\"SmallLine\" height=\"2\">&nbsp;</td>
                                                </tr>
                                                <tr>
                                                    <td colspan=\"2\" class=\"SmHeader\">Customer's Issue</td>
                                                </tr>
                                                <tr>
                                                    <td colspan=\"2\" class=\"SmallLine\" height=\"2\">&nbsp;</td>
                                                </tr>
                                <% If StepFrom = 0 Then 
?>

<?php
 Do until rst.EOF 
?>

<?php
= rst(\"Step\")
?>

Thank you for your help.

artsapimp — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:21:21 +0000

Thank you thank you thank you. That was exactly what I was looking for.

Adrian J. Moreno — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:12:26 +0000

What you want to do is change the value of the form object "action". You do this with JavaScript, not ASP, CF, PHP, etc.. And it's best to use radio buttons for this instead of checkboxes as radio buttons with the same name ensure that only one choice can be made.

Just change the values of the radio buttons to the page & querystring you want to pass.

<html>
<head>
	<title>Javascript - Switch "Action" page</title>
&lt;script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"&gt;
<!--
function changeAction(x) {
	document.changeMe.action = x;
}
//-->
&lt;/script&gt;
</head>

<body>
<form name="changeMe" action="" method="post">
<input type="radio" name="myAction" value="ActionA.htm" onClick="changeAction(this.value)">Action A<br>
<input type="radio" name="myAction" value="ActionB.htm" onClick="changeAction(this.value)">Action B<br>
<input type="radio" name="myAction" value="ActionC.htm" onClick="changeAction(this.value)">Action C<br>
<br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">
</form>

</body>
</html>

You can even ditch the Javascript function call completely and go with this:

<html>
<head>
	<title>Javascript - Switch "Action" page - version 2</title>
</head>

<body>
<form name="changeMe" action="" method="post">
<input type="radio" name="myAction" value="ActionA.htm" onClick="document.changeMe.action = this.value">Action A<br>
<input type="radio" name="myAction" value="ActionB.htm" onClick="document.changeMe.action = this.value">Action B<br>
<input type="radio" name="myAction" value="ActionC.htm" onClick="document.changeMe.action = this.value">Action C<br>
<br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">
</form>

</body>
</html>

If you put a default value in the action attribute of the tag, you'll catch when someone fails to choose a radio button. If you don't want to add a default action page in the form tag, you can choose a radio button to be checked by default.

<input type="radio" name="myAction" value="ActionA.htm" onClick="document.changeMe.action = this.value" checked>Action A

artsapimp — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:32:49 +0000

Thank you, that will work but is a little different than what I was looking for. Here's a better example.

(also not PHP but I'm following your lead)

<?php
<form action=\"GoTo.asp?Action=1\" method=\"Post\" name=\"GoToForm\">
?>

Instead of making the Action=1 static in this Form Action is there a way to make it change using javascript immediately when a radio button is clicked?

IE-

<?php
<input type=\"radio\" name=\"Action\" value=\"1\">Action 1 <!-- Action changes to 1 -->
<input type=\"radio\" name=\"Action\" value=\"2\">Action 2 <!-- Action changes to 2 -->
<input type=\"radio\" name=\"Action\" value=\"3\">Action 3 <!-- Action changes to 3 -->
?>

Do you see what I'm looking for? I know I could send it through the form and receive it using request.form but this would be more consistant with the project I'm building.

Here's an idea of how it could be done if ASP would work immediately without sending a form.

<?php
<%
Dim varAction
?>

Do you see what I'm looking for?

detox — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 02:01:38 +0000

you are on the right track..

What you want is to end up with something like this, you can either use a case statement or a series of if then elses.
I also changed the checkbox to a radio box, better if you only want 1 choice off the form.

NOTE this is only a very quick example! but it works. Also it isnt PHP but I hate putting code on these pages

<?php
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN\">

<html>
<head>
    <title>Untitled</title>
</head>

<body>

 <% dim check, form
 check = request.querystring(\"check\") 
 form = request.querystring(\"form\") 
?>

<?php
 If form = \"\" then 
?>

<?php
 Else  
?>

<?php
' response.write(\"you checked box number \" & check)
?>

<?php
Select Case check 
    Case \"1\"
        
?>

This is what happens when you click on Radio button 1

<?php
    Case \"2\"
        
?>

This is what happens when you click on Radio button 2

<?php
    Case \"3\"
        
?>

Surprise, Surprise, This is what you get when you click on Radio button 3

<?php
    Case Else
End Select
?>

<?php
 End If 
?>