Form's Input Pattern

[metrosky]

I'm tired to re-coping and then re-pasting the same part of the sentence in the Value of the Input over and over again.

<form action= "method="post">
<input type="text" name="example" value="samepartNEWWORDsamepart" />
</form>

Is it possible to enter only NEWWORD in the form's box, but to hide samepart until the submition button of the form will be pressed on?

Please help me to solve this one. Thank you in advance.

[Mittineague]

Maybe something like

$var = "samepart" . $_POST['example'] . "samepart";
// samepartNEWWORDsamepart 

[Cups]

Without a complicated JS solution, I dont think so.

you could pass the information onto the end using something like this ....

<form action= "method="post">
<input type="text" name="example" value="NEWWORD" />
<input type="hidden" name="pretext" value="this" />
<input type="hidden" name="posttext" value="that" />
</form> 

then on backend:

$input_box = $_POST['pretext'] . $_POST['example'] . $_POST['posttext'] ;

// echo $input_box
// gives the following if the users doesnt type anything in the text box
thisNEWWORDthat

[metrosky]

Thank you for your prompt replies. Yeah, it's not that ease as I thought. Is it possible to accomplish this with:

eregi_replace

[Cups]

Perhaps you could explain a little more about why you want to append and prepend text to a text box, whats the reason?

[metrosky]

Thank you for your involvement. Here you go:

I work on my Control Management System, and I created a form with input boxes in it, where I have to enter new web-page addresses for new pages of my website.

<form action= "method="post">
<input type="text" name="example" value="<a href="http://www.example.com/NEWWORD.htm" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.example.com/images/NEWWORD.gif" alt="NEWWORD" /></a>" />
</form>

As you can see I have to be very careful if I copy the (value) part of the (input) and then to paste only NEWWORD in it. I try to find the easiest way how to accomplish that with one insert command inside to the (value) line.

[metrosky]

^

[Mandes]

Sorry I think your stuck with good old fashioned hard work and key bashing

[hamstu]

Hmm, why wouldn't you just make the string once your form is submitted?

$mycode = '<a href="http://www.example.com/' . $newword . '.htm" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.example.com/images/' . $newword . '.gif" alt="' . $newword . '" /></a>' 

Where $newword is from your $_POST.

[Mittineague]

If you have a lot of "copy - paste" to do maybe you could use PHP to generate the inputs instead. eg. something like

$new_words = array('contact', 'about', 'pictures', 'songs', 'poems', 'stories');
foreach($new_words as $key => $value) {
echo "<input type=\"text\" name=\"example\" value=\"<a href=\"http://www.example.com/" . $value . ".htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http://www.example.com/images/" . $value . ".gif\" alt=" . $value . " /></a>\" />";
} 

BTW - does using an image link as an input value work?

[metrosky]

I feel that I'm on the right track.
I'm kinda new to PHP, therefore sorry for my probably simple to you question.

for this PHP Code:

$new_words = array('contact', 'about', 'pictures', 'songs', 'poems', 'stories');
foreach($new_words as $key => $value) {
echo "<input type=\"text\" name=\"example\" value=\"<a href=\"http://www.example.com/" . $value . ".htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http://www.example.com/images/" . $value . ".gif\" alt=" . $value . " /></a>\" />";
}


It's what I have to put into the Input Line?


<input type="text" name="new_words" value="NEWWORD"/ size="150" />