Suzanne — Sun, 26 May 2002 20:31:15 +0000

My problem is that I have to always keep in mind that my clients/users don't know PHP, barely HTML. The more I can leave out, the better, for them to edit the files. That and I hate typing \", lol...

So I had the right idea, just had it in the wrong place? doh!!

Although I'm happy that I'm managing to figure it out to some extent. You should have seen how flipping chipper I was when I found array_walk and got it working first try... lol!

Anyway, yes, that works just dandy, Mark, thanks!

carterjackson.com/joshua/puzzle2.php?show=textlinks

w00t!

Mark Hensler — Sun, 26 May 2002 19:05:05 +0000

That's just a programming style. That would probably be considered Minimal PHP Style because you try to stay in HTML mode as often as possible. What I use is considered Maximal PHP Style because my whole file is within PHP tags, everything is echoed, nothing outside of PHP tags.

Anyway, try this...

<?php
$z = array (
    \"6_piece_classic\",
    \"12_piece_zigzag\",
    \"16_piece_blocks\");

 $pictures = array (
    \"Joshua\" => array (
        \"tongue\" => array (
            \"id\" => \"358293\",
            \"title\" => \"New Year's Opinion\"),
        \"bighands\" => array (
            \"id\" => \"353027\",
            \"title\" => \"Big Hands I Know You're The One\"),
        \"wintersquash\" => array (
            \"id\" => \"369925\",
            \"title\" => \"Winter Squash\"),
        \"arrr\" => array (
            \"id\" => \"409483\",
            \"title\" => \"Arrr!\"),
        \"mycutemen\" => array (
            \"id\" => \"409484\",
            \"title\" => \"My Cute Men\",
            \"category\" => \"Joshua\")
        )
    );


if ($show == \"textlinks\" && $puzzle == \"\") {
    foreach ($pictures as $category=>$data) {
        echo \"<h3>$category</h3>\n\";
        echo \"<p>\n\";
        echo \"<form action=\\"puzzle2.php\\" method=\\"post\\">\n\";
        echo \"<p>\n\";
        echo \"$title<br />\n\";
        echo \"<input class=\\"small\\" type=\\"hidden\\" name=\\"c\\" value=\\"$category\\" />\n\";
        echo \"<input class=\\"small\\" type=\\"hidden\\" name=\\"puzzle\\" value=\\"$name\\" />\n\";
        echo \"<input class=\\"small\\" type=\\"hidden\\" name=\\"show\\" value=\\"textlinks\\" />\n\";
        echo \"<select class=\\"small\\" name=\\"ui\\">\n\";
        foreach ($data as $name=>$subdata) {
            extract($subdata);
            echo \"<option value=\"$id\">$title</option>\n\";
        } //END foreach ($data
        echo \"</select>\n\";
        echo \"<input class=\\"small\\" type=\\"submit\\" value=\\"go!\\" />\n\";
        echo \"</p>\n\";
        echo \"<br />\n\";
        echo \"<select class=\\"small\\" name=\\"piece\\">\n\";
        array_walk ($z, optionlist);
        echo \"</select>\n\";
        echo \"</form>\n\";
        echo \"</p>\n\";
    } //END foreach $pictures
}
?>

Suzanne — Sun, 26 May 2002 18:11:29 +0000

oh will, you're so silly! I've seen Perl far more confusing than this.

Wil — Sun, 26 May 2002 11:00:48 +0000

Thank goodness that Perl allows you to split your code from your HTML. PHP embeded with HTML tags looks so so confusing... :-\