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dj262501
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I need help only passing user input

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I appreciate your help guys. I was able to do something to the code. Now it looks like this:

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<?php
include "include/dbc.php";

include "include/header.inc";
?>

	<script type="text/javascript">
	<!--Hide Code
	// Function Statements

	//Function to confirm submit

function confirmSubmit() {
	var submitform = window.confirm("Are you sure you want to submit the activities?");
	if (submitform == true)
		return validateForm();
	return false;
}
// End Hide-->
</script>

<style type="text/css">
.mydate{
color:#00F;
text-decoration:underline;
cursor:pointer;
}
</style>

<script type="text/javascript">
function displayDate(d){
var date=new Date();
var D=date.getDate();
date.setDate(D+d);
var YYYY=date.getFullYear();
var MM=date.getMonth()+1;
MM<10?MM='0'+MM:null;
var DD=date.getDate();
DD<10?DD='0'+DD:null;
var span=document.getElementById('date');
span.innerHTML= 'Entries for '+MM+'/'+DD+'/'+YYYY;
}
onload=function(){displayDate(0)};
</script>

<h1>Food Diary</h1>

<div class="full">
<center><div><span class="mydate" onclick="displayDate(-1)"><img src="images/left_arrow.png" border="0">Yesterday</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span id="date" style="font-size:2em;"></span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="mydate" onclick="displayDate(1)">Tomorrow<img src="images/right_arrow.png" border="0"></span></div><br />
<a href="#" onclick="displayDate(0);return false;">Today</a>
</center>

<div class="full">
<form name="exercise" id="exercise" method="GET" action="">
  <center><table>
	<tr>
    	<td><h3>Add an Activity</h3></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
    	<td><input name="NewSearchString" style="width: 100px" type="text"/>&nbsp;&nbsp;<input type="submit" value="Search" /> </td>
	</tr>
    <tr>
    	<td>
        	<select name="activity">
            	<option value="_">Activity Browse...</option>
                <option value="all">All Activities</option>
                <option value="biking">Biking</option>
                <option value="condition">Conditioning</option>
                <option value="dancing">Dancing</option>
                <option value="fish">Fishing & Hunting</option>
                <option value="Home">Home Activities</option>
                <option value="misc">Miscellaneous</option>
                <option value="music">Music Playing</option>
                <option value="occupation">Occupation</option>
                <option value="running">Running</option>
                <option value="sports">Sports</option>
                <option value="walking">Walking</option>
                <option value="water">Water Activities</option>
                <option value="winter">Winter Activities</option>
			</select> &nbsp;&nbsp;<input type="submit" value="Submit" /></td></tr></table></center></form>
		</td>
	</tr>
</table> </center>
<table width="100%">
   	<tr bgcolor="#66CC33">
    	<td><div>Activity</div></td>
        <td><div>Specific Activity</div></td>
        <td><div>Time (hh:mm)</div></td>
        <td><div>Distance</div></td>
        <td><div>Units</div></td>
	</tr>
    <tr bgcolor="#66CC33">
    	<td><div></div></td>
     	<td><div></div></td>
       <td><div></div></td>
        <td><div class="Float"></div></td>
        <td class="cp_Distance"><div></div></td>
	</tr>
<?php
if(isset($_GET[activity])) {
$category=$_GET[activity];
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM exercise WHERE type='$category'");
?>
<form action="add_activity.php" method="POST">
<?php
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
echo '<tr><td><div>'.$row[Type].'</div></td>';
echo '<td><div>'.$row[Name].'<input type="hidden" name="exerciseid" value="'.$row[Name].'"></div></td>';
echo '<td><div><input type="text" name="duration['.$row['Name'].']"></div></td>';
echo '<td><div><input type="text" name="distance['.$row['Name'].']"></div></td>';
echo '<td><div><select name="metric[]">
        		<option value="mile" name="mile">mile</option>
            	<option value="Km" name="Km">km</option>
            	<option value="M" name="M">m</option>
            	<option value="Yard" name="yard">yrd</option>
            	<option value="Feet" name="feet">ft</option>
            </select></div></td></tr>';

}
mysql_close();
?>
<tr><td colspan="6" align="center"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Add Activities" onClick="return confirm(
  'Are you sure you want to submit the activities?');"></td></tr>
</form>
<?php
}
?>
    <tr bgcolor="#66CC33">
    	<td><div></div></td>
     	<td><div></div></td>
       <td><div></div></td>
        <td><div class="Float"></div></td>
        <td class="cp_Distance"><div></div></td>
	</tr></table>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
This somewhat works. The problem is that this code passes all the activities to the second page, where the output looks like this:

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Array
(
    [exerciseid] => Hunting, general
    [duration] => Array
        (
            [Fishing from boat, sitting] => 20
            [Fishing from river bank, standing] => 
            [Fishing in stream, in waders] => 
            [Fishing, general] => 
            [Fishing, ice, sitting] => 
            [Hunting, general] => 
        )

    [distance] => Array
        (
            [Fishing from boat, sitting] => 25
            [Fishing from river bank, standing] => 
            [Fishing in stream, in waders] => 
            [Fishing, general] => 
            [Fishing, ice, sitting] => 
            [Hunting, general] => 
        )

    [submit] => Add Activities
)
Is there a way I can pass what the user input instead of passing everything (form validation maybe?)
Last edited by dj262501 on Fri Sep 17, 2010 6:51 am, edited 2 times in total.
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Jonah Bron
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Re: I need help only passing user input

Post by Jonah Bron »

Could you edit your post and re-copy/paste your code? It got messed up and I can't read it.
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