I'm trying to get a value of a form in Wordpress to PHP. The form is like this and it is displaying fine in the preview:
<form action=".../name.php" method="get">
<input type="checkbox" name="form_ques_4" value=0 />
<input type="checkbox" name="form_ques_4" value=1 />
<input type="checkbox" name="form_ques_4" value=2 />
<input type="submit" name="formSubmit" value="submit" />
</form>
If the user selected option 2, the value is 1 and this will later be used as the input in a MySQL database. As I have read in other posts, I should get value with the php line.
$a = $_GET["form_ques_4"];
I have tested some other simple outputs for the .php and there is no problem with the "form action" of the wordpress. I also tried using single and double quotes for the "GET" with no result.
Try to change the names of your checkboxes, if you want a user multiple choice:
<form action=".../name.php" method="get">
<input type="checkbox" name="form_ques_1" value="0" />
<input type="checkbox" name="form_ques_2" value="1" />
<input type="checkbox" name="form_ques_3" value="2" />
<input type="submit" name="formSubmit" value="submit" />
</form>
otherwise, if you want the user makes only one choice use type="radio"
<form action=".../name.php" method="get">
<input type="radio" name="form_ques_4" value="0" />
<input type="radio" name="form_ques_4" value="1" />
<input type="radio" name="form_ques_4" value="2" />
<input type="submit" name="formSubmit" value="submit" />
</form>
EDIT
yes, as AZinkey says, you can also use
<form action=".../name.php" method="get">
<input type="checkbox" name="form_ques[]" value="0" />
<input type="checkbox" name="form_ques[]" value="1" />
<input type="checkbox" name="form_ques[]" value="2" />
<input type="submit" name="formSubmit" value="submit" />
</form>
then get the results in php
$checked = $_GET['form_ques'];
for($i=0; $i < count($checked); $i++){
echo $checked[$i] . "<br/>";
}
Quote your value attribute like value="0" and update name to "form_ques_4[]"
<input type="checkbox" name="form_ques_4[]" value="0" />
Related
Hi and thanks for reading my question. I am using a simple form to get some input :
<p>Select your favorite two countries below:</p>
<form id="world" name="world" action="/order.php" method="post">
<input type="checkbox" name="countries" value="USA" /> USA<br />
<input type="checkbox" name="countries" value="Canada" /> Canada<br />
<input type="checkbox" name="countries" value="Japan" /> Japan<br />
<input type="checkbox" name="countries" value="China" /> China<br />
<input type="checkbox" name="countries" value="France" /> France<br />
<input type="submit" value="Order">
</form>
I want to make sure order.php is geting all of the choices selected, so order.php only contains the following code :
<pre>
<?php var_dump($_POST);?>
</pre>
Unfortunately, it is only outputting whatevre is the bottom-most checkbox that is checked.
The output is like this :
array(1) {
["countries"]=>
string(6) "Canada"
}
If i try the following code for output :
<?php
foreach($_POST as $key=>$post_data){
echo "You posted:" . $key . " = " . $post_data . "<br>";
}
?>
I get this output :
You posted:countries = Canada
Can anyone tell me where i am going wrong and how i can retrieve all of the data, for every box that is ticked ?
Thank you.
You gave the same name to your checkboxes, and PHP will overwrite previously parsed name submissions with the current value. You need to use the array-notation hack:
<input type="checkbox" name="countries[]" value="Canada" /> Canada<br />
^^
which then makes $_POST['countries'] an array of all the values submitted.
echo "You posted: " . implode(',', $_POST['countries']);
<p>Select your favorite two countries below:</p>
<form id="world" name="world" action="/order.php" method="post">
<input type="checkbox" name="countries[]" value="USA" /> USA<br />
<input type="checkbox" name="countries[]" value="Canada" /> Canada<br />
<input type="checkbox" name="countries[]" value="Japan" /> Japan<br />
<input type="checkbox" name="countries[]" value="China" /> China<br />
<input type="checkbox" name="countries[]" value="France" /> France<br />
<input type="submit" value="Order">
</form>
Change it to above, this will store all your checkboxes results for you!
i have a html form that has a more then 30 checkboxes. checkboxes are used to select for different service.
I want to store those all value in 1 Database field seperated by , those could be numeric or string. Code for inserting checkbox values is as follows:
<form method="post" action="posted.php">
Option 1: <input type="checkbox" name="type" value="1" /><br />
Option 2: <input type="checkbox" name="type" value="2" /><br />
Option 3: <input type="checkbox" name="type" value="3" /><br />
Option 4: <input type="checkbox" name="type" value="4" /><br />
Option 5: <input type="checkbox" name="type" value="5" /><br />
Option 6: <input type="checkbox" name="type" value="6" /><br />
Option 7: <input type="checkbox" name="type" value="7" /><br />
Option 8: <input type="checkbox" name="type" value="8" /><br />
Option 9: <input type="checkbox" name="type" value="9"/><br />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
After successful submission off course i need to fetch those data in the corespondent check box while update.
Please response me as soon as possible with complete PHP code.
You can use JSON. From this:
Option 1: <input type="checkbox" name="myval[option_name1]" /><br />
Option N: <input type="checkbox" name="myval[option_nameN]" /><br />
Store:
$model->field = json_encode($_POST['myval']);
Or comma-seporated (if you really want):
$model->field = implode(",", $_POST['myval']);
I'm getting a strange error when I try to submit user-generated data to a database via PHP commands. When I hit the submit button below, instead of the PHP page running its' function I am presented with a display of the raw code on my browser. I have a command at the bottom of my HTML page that looks like this:
<form action="insert.php" method="post">
<input type="submit">
</form>
So that when the user hits the submit button, the PHP file insert.php (detailed below) is called to input the answers onto a database, separating each answer into it's own field.
Here is the code I'm working with:
<?php
$con=mysqli_connect("host","username","password","database");
// Check connection
if (mysqli_connect())
{
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_errno();
}
$sql="INSERT INTO Persons (Name, Serif, Width, Height, Spacing, Weight)
VALUES
('$_POST[answer]','$_POST[answer]','$_POST[answer]','$_POST[answer]','$_POST[answer]','$_POST[answer]')";
if (!mysqli_query($con,$sql))
{
die('Error: ' . mysqli_error($con));
}
echo "1 record added";
mysqli_close($con);
?>
Right now, the questions are in a and not a (is there a functional difference in this case?). They look like:
<form class="testAns" id="widthAns">
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="skinny">-25%
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="skinny">-10%
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="mid">normal
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="fat">+10%
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="fat">+25%
</form>
<form class="testAns" id="spaceAns">
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="small">-25%
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="small">-10%
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="mid">normal
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="wide">+10%
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="wide">+25%
</form>
<form class="testAns" id="weightAns">
<input type="radio" name="wanswer" value="light">-25%
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="light">-10%
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="mid">normal
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="heavy">+10%
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="heavy">+25%
</form>
<form method="post" action="insert.php" class="testAns" id="heightAns">
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="short">-25%
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="short">-10%
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="mid">normal
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="tall">+10%
<input type="radio" name="answer" value="tall">+25%
</form>
The important part is for the "value" associated with each button to be logged into the database. For example, if a user selects "+10%" I want be able to log the word "heavy".And then there are two text input fields:
<form id="intro">
City: <input type="text" name="answer"><br>
Why you are using this tool:<input type="text" name="answer">
</form>
So for these text fields I need the user input logged as the answer.
I see you got the PHP thing fixed.
Now you need to fill your form with data. This:
<form action="insert.php" method="post">
<input type="submit">
</form>
sends only the submit value. You need to add input fields inside that form tag, otherwise, nothing else will get sent. So, since you're sending an answer array, you should add those (adding them as text fields, as an example):
<form action="insert.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="answer[]" />
<input type="text" name="answer[]" />
etc...
<input type="submit" />
</form>
And make sure you filter all user inputs before writing anything into the database, as otherwise my buddy Bobby Tables might come to visit you.
Make sure in your XAMPP Control Panel that Apache and MySQL are running. Then check if your input fields are inside the <form action='insert.php' method='POST'> input fields </form>
Your HTML code would look like this:
<html>
<body>
<form action='insert.php' method='POST'>
<table>
<tr><td>Width: </td><td>
<input type="radio" name="width" value="skinny">-25%
<input type="radio" name="width" value="skinny">-10%
<input type="radio" name="width" value="mid">normal
<input type="radio" name="width" value="fat">+10%
<input type="radio" name="width" value="fat">+25%
</td></tr>
<tr><td>Spacing: </td><td>
<input type="radio" name="spacing" value="small">-25%
<input type="radio" name="spacing" value="small">-10%
<input type="radio" name="spacing" value="mid">normal
<input type="radio" name="spacing" value="wide">+10%
<input type="radio" name="spacing" value="wide">+25%
</td></tr>
<tr><td>Weight: </td><td>
<input type="radio" name="weight" value="light">-25%
<input type="radio" name="weight" value="light">-10%
<input type="radio" name="weight" value="mid">normal
<input type="radio" name="weight" value="heavy">+10%
<input type="radio" name="weight" value="heavy">+25%
</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height: </td><td>
<input type="radio" name="height" value="short">-25%
<input type="radio" name="height" value="short">-10%
<input type="radio" name="height" value="mid">normal
<input type="radio" name="height" value="tall">+10%
<input type="radio" name="height" value="tall">+25%
</td></tr>
<tr><td>City: </td><td><input type="text" name="city"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Why you are using this tool: </td><td><input type="text" name="tool"></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><input type='submit'></td></tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>
What are you using in creating your php files? Dreamweaver? Notepad? Try this: SAVE AS your file, Save As Type: All Files and name it insert.php.
<?php
$con=mysqli_connect("localhost","YourUsername","YourPassword(if any)","NameOfYourDatabase");
// Check connection
if (mysqli_connect())
{
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_errno();
}
$width=$_POST['width'];
$spacing=$_POST['spacing'];
$weight=$_POST['weight'];
$height=$_POST['height'];
$city=mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$_POST['city']);
$tool=mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$_POST['tool']);
/* REAL ESCAPE STRING WOULD PREVENT A BIT OF SQL INJECTION */
$sql="INSERT INTO Persons (Name, Serif, Width, Height, Spacing, Weight)
VALUES
('$city','$tool','$width','$height','$spacing','$weight')";
if (!mysqli_query($con,$sql))
{
die('Error: ' . mysqli_error($con));
}
echo "1 record added";
mysqli_close($con);
?>
I need a form in which the checkboxes would open different pages based on their selection when the form is submitted.
So, say I have this simple form:
<form action="" method="post">
<input value="1" type="checkbox" name="sign" />
<input value="2" type="checkbox" name="sign" />
<input value="3" type="checkbox" name="sign" />
<input value="4" type="checkbox" name="sign" />
<input value="5" type="checkbox" name="sign" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
When an user checks value 1 and submits, he will be redirected to page A. If a user checks 1 and 4 he will be redirected to a different page (page F, for instance). If a user checks 2, 3 and 4 he will be redirected to page R, and so on... There would be 25 different combinations, and therefore, 25 different page results for this form when an user submits it.
In other words, when the form is submitted somehow the system would read which checkboxes were checked and associate each possible combination with a different URL.
Can it be done? If so, how? Anyone ever made something similar? I've searched a long time for solutions, but found only slightly similar ones, not exactly what I need, so any help would be appreciated.
HTML:
<form action="" method="post">
<input value="1" type="checkbox" name="sign[1]" />
<input value="2" type="checkbox" name="sign[2]" />
<input value="3" type="checkbox" name="sign[3]" />
<input value="4" type="checkbox" name="sign[4]" />
<input value="5" type="checkbox" name="sign[5]" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
PHP:
if (isset($_POST['sign'][1]))
header("Location: a.php");
elseif(isset($_POST['sign'][2]) AND isset($_POST['sign'][3]))
header("Location: b.php");
This can be done in a couple of ways. One is that you can use javascript to intercept the form submission, change the value of the form "action", and then execute the submit.
A second approach might be to just send all this data to a single script and based on the selected values perform a redirect to the intended page.
From should look like:
<form action="" method="post">
<input value="1" type="checkbox" name="sign[]" />
<input value="2" type="checkbox" name="sign[]" />
<input value="3" type="checkbox" name="sign[]" />
<input value="4" type="checkbox" name="sign[]" />
<input value="5" type="checkbox" name="sign[]" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
And the post like:
if(!empty($_POST['sign'])) {
if(in_array(1, $_POST['sign'])) {
// if just 1, go to page
} elseif(in_array(1, $_POST['sign']) && in_array(4, $_POST['sign'])) {
// if 1 and 4, go to page
}
}
You can just consider each of the inputs as a bit. So, you will always have 5 bits to consider.
Then define an associative array of 25 entries corresponding to each of the possible values:
00001
00010
...
var links = {
"00001" : "www.google.com",
];
Then, when you submit the form, just set the target attribute of the form based on the value.
If I were you and I had no choice than following this idea, I would use something like that in jQuery (assuming your post vars are treated in the page you want to reach):
<form action="" method="post" id="myForm">
<input value="1" type="checkbox" name="sign[]" />
<input value="2" type="checkbox" name="sign[]" />
<input value="3" type="checkbox" name="sign[]" />
<input value="4" type="checkbox" name="sign[]" />
<input value="5" type="checkbox" name="sign[]" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
$("#myForm").submit(function() {
var checked_array = new Array();
$("#myForm input").each(function() {
if ($(this).is(":checked")
checked_array.push($(this).attr("value"));
});
if ( checked_array.indexOf(2) !== -1 && checked_array.indexOf(5) !== -1)
("#myForm").attr("action", "/url1.php") ;
else if etc...
});
I have multiple checkboxes on my form:
<input type="checkbox" name="animal" value="Cat" />
<input type="checkbox" name="animal" value="Dog" />
<input type="checkbox" name="animal" value="Bear" />
If I check all three and hit submit, with the following code in the PHP script:
if(isset($_POST['submit']) {
echo $_POST['animal'];
}
I get "Bear", i.e. the last chosen checkbox value even though I picked all three. How to get all 3?
See the changes I have made in the name:
<input type="checkbox" name="animal[]" value="Cat" />
<input type="checkbox" name="animal[]" value="Dog" />
<input type="checkbox" name="animal[]" value="Bear" />
you have to set it up as array.
print_r($_POST['animal']);
<input type="checkbox" name="animal[]" value="Cat" />
<input type="checkbox" name="animal[]" value="Dog" />
<input type="checkbox" name="animal[]" value="Bear" />
If I check all three and hit submit, with the following code in the PHP script:
if(isset($_POST['animal'])){
foreach($_POST['animal'] as $animal){
echo $animal;
}
}
use square brackets following the field name
<input type="checkbox" name="animal[]" value="Cat" />
<input type="checkbox" name="animal[]" value="Dog" />
<input type="checkbox" name="animal[]" value="Bear" />
On the PHP side, you can treat it like any other array.