Question

i’m editing a joomla website and in a form I needed to swap some dropdown select boxes with simple text fields. for example I swapped this:

<select name="date" id="date" class="date_tag">
<?php   for($i=1;$i<=31;$i++)   {   ?>

        <option value="<?php echo $i; ?>" <?php if($i == date('d')) echo 'selected="selected"'; ?>><?php echo $i; ?></option>

    <?php   }   ?>
    </select>

with that:

<input type="text" name="date" id="date" class="date_tag">

in the final proccessing of the form I can’t get the values of the fields I swapped from select
boxes to text fields.
although there are other text fields in this form. I can’t tell what’s different.
the processing is done with JRequest as in here:

if(JRequest::getInt('step', 0) == 2)    {   
global $mainframe;  
$fstate     = JRequest::getVar('fstate', '');
$fzip       = JRequest::getVar('fzip', '');
$tstate     = JRequest::getVar('tstate', '');
$tzip       = JRequest::getVar('tzip', '');
$month      = JRequest::getVar('month', '');
$date       = JRequest::getVar('date', '');
$year       = JRequest::getVar('year', '');
$weight     = JRequest::getVar('weight', '');
$type       = JRequest::getVar('type', '');
$first_name = JRequest::getVar('first_name', '');
$last_name  = JRequest::getVar('last_name', '');
$email      = JRequest::getVar('email', '');
$phone_type = JRequest::getVar('phone_type2', '');
$phone_num  = JRequest::getVar('phone_num', '');
$time       = JRequest::getVar('time2', '');
    ....

i get that $date=” even when I entered a value to that field.
as I said it worked before I made the swap.
what could be the problem?
thanks.

Answer 1

Sounds like there is something else going on here, as the new input field appears to be correct.

I would suggest using print_r($_POST) and tracing through the data.