Question

So what’s getting pushed to this array is dependant on a few radio boxes. I’ve got this for standard and wheelchair seats:

if(document.getElementById('standardseat').checked) {
  //Standard seat is checked
seatsArray.push(e.posX, e.posY);
}
else if(document.getElementById('wheelchairseat').checked) {
  //Wheelchair seat is checked
seatsArray.push("Wheelchair " + e.posX, e.posY);
}

And this is the equivalent form code:

<input id="standardseat" type="radio" name="seat" value="standard" /> Standard seat
<input id="wheelchairseat" type="radio" name="seat" value="wheelchair" /> Wheelchair seat

But I want to add in some more radio boxes, which are separate from the standard/wheelchair seat:

<input id="backnave" type="radio" name="area" value="backnave" /> Back Nave
<input id="frontnave" type="radio" name="area" value="frontnave" /> Front nave
<input id="middlenave" type="radio" name="area" value="middlenave" /> Middle nave

And I want the push to also include this. To explain, if the user ticked “Wheelchair seat” and “Middle nave”, the push should output (“MN, Wheelchair ” + e.posX, e.posY). Is there any way of making this happen without manually including a lot of else if’s for each possible outcome (I may even want to add a third set of radio boxes)?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I would build up the string that describes the chair with a comparatively small number of if statements, and then call the push at the end.

So something like:

var desc = "";
if(document.getElementById('wheelchairseat').checked) {
  //Wheelchair seat is checked
  desc = "Wheelchair "+desc;
}

if(document.getElementById("backnave").checked) {
  desc = "BN, "+desc;
} else if(document.getElementById("middlenave").checked) {
  desc = "MN, "+desc;
} else if(document.getElementById("frontnave").checked) {
  desc = "FN, "+desc;
}

seatsArray.push(desc + e.posX, e.posY);

This can easily be extended to account for additional groups of blocks.