Question

Is there a built in php function that will return an array (or some sort of list) of all the form elements within a div or within a specific form by either name or id?

My limited experience in javascript tells me that this can probably be occomplished with javascript but i am wondering if it can be done in php. Thanks for your help.

My only other alternative would be to define a variable at the bottom of each form element like:

$allElements = 'name';
$allElements .= ', phone';
$allElements .= ', email'; 
and so on.  

I am wondering if there is a short cut to this method?

Answer 1

You are going to want to parse the HTML.

$HTML = '<div name="phone"></div>';
$string = strstr($HTML, 'name=\"');
$string = strstr($string, '\"');

something like that…

these are your best friends:

stripos() 
strrpos() 
strripos() 
strstr() 
strpbrk()
substr()