Question

I have some dynamically added text boxes along with some static ones. The problem I’m having is when I remove an item from one of the dynamic forms, unless I have it wrapped with form tags, it will only remove the last item from the list. However, when I wrap it in form tags, then the static text boxes won’t post. Basically I’m just wondering how to properly use tags if I want to submit textboxes.

For example,

<form method="post">
<textbox 1>
<textbox 2>
<textbox 3>

<?
 $tasks->task_form();

?>
 <another textbox> //these text boxes don't POST when the dynamic forms have tags wrapped around them
 <another textbox>
<?    
 $users->dynamic_form_2();
?>

</form>

For example, here’s the task_form

function task_form(){

//textbox and submit to add tasks here (omitted to keep shorter)

foreach (array_combine($task, $task_num) as $task => $task_num){
            ?>
            <form method="post">
            <tr><td><? echo $task; ?></td><td><? echo $task_num; ?></td>
            <td><input type="submit" name="remove_task" value="Remove"/></td>
            <td><input type="hidden" name="task_name" value="<? echo $task; ?>"/>
            <td><input type="hidden" name="task_num" value="<? echo $task_num; ?>"/></td></tr>
            </form>
            <?
        }

}

If I don’t place the form tags around the dynamic forms, then the last item from that form is removed regardless of which one I try to remove. However, with the form tags, then the values from some of the text boxes don’t POST at all.

Answer 1

This is probably not the cleanest solution, but you could use a toolkit like jQuery and on click of one of your submit button, simply send ajax queries for each forms in parallel, and when everything is done, redirect to another page.

I would still strongly advise that you review your forms, it should probably be a single form!