Put a $_POST into a Object

[JREAM]

Heya, Im kind of a newbie with classes and I was wondering is there a way I can get the POST to echo into my object here?

$name = $_POST['name'];

// See how I try to echo it into there at the end for the value??
$form->make('Name', 'name', 'text', '25', echo $name); 

This is the class but I don't think you need to see it

// The part of the class is here:
function make($title, $name, $type, $size, $value) {
        $this->form .= "<label for=\"$name\">$title</label> \n";
        $this->form .= "<input type=\"$type\" name=\"$name\" value=\"$value\" size=\"$size\" /><br /> \n\n";
        } 

[Cups]

You just pass the variable along...

$form->make('Name', 'name', 'text', '25', $name);

or

$form->make('Name', 'name', 'text', '25', $_POST['name']);

Dont forget to escape it if its for display later:

function make($title, $name, $type, $size, $value = "") {
        $this->form .= "<label for=\"$name\">$title</label> \n";
        $this->form .= "<input type=\"$type\" name=\"$name\" 
        value=\"". htmlentities( $value ) 
        ."\" size=\"$size\" /><br /> \n\n";
        } 

(made it multiline so its a bit more readable)

By making value have a default value, with $value = "", you can now use the same method when there is no value for value.

$form->make('Name', 'name', 'text', '25'); // making a blank form element

[JREAM]

Oh that is really cool I never would think of doing a value="" in the function attributes. It works great now

[Cups]

Watch out though, you have to work from the right hand side argument.

So you could for example set $size=25 next.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/functions.arguments.php

You should really know everything there is to know about functions, then as you know, when used in classes they are magically called methods.

Its worth spending time on these man pages, well worth it.