[ Form if then Else/ifElse HTML on submit ]
I have a form that I need to act in specific ways. Example: User brings equipment back: I don't want that to show up in my form. User takes equipment out: I want it to generate to my form, they enters some information, form sends information to database. User takes equipment out: it too generates said form, he doesn't enter any information, form submits information after 20 sec, information is in database.
I was doing a simple page refresh to get the information into my form but that was pulling all the equipment that had been brought into the warehouse that day. So I commented that out and then I would get stuck on my ajax page.
I then tried creating a new php page that had a 301 page refresh and that worked to get the page back to my index page, however, my form wasn't working properly and so I commented out the auto submit and now my form works great... except I can't fulfill this last requirement where the page will submit the data if the user forgets to put his equipment information in.
I'm looking to do an if/then/else type of page submission. However, I can't figure out how to do one purely in either php or html. This is what I have figured out so far but it doesn't work and I know I'm way off somewhere.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<!--This is the one that is currently commented out in my code
<script type="text/javascript">
window.setTimeout(function() {
window.location = 'index.php'},1000*2);
</script>
</body>
</html> -->
//This is my pipe dream
<?php
if (isset($_POST['action'])) {
switch ($_POST['action']) {
case ‘DONE’:
document.getElement('formSubmit').submit();
break;
}
} else {
<script type="text/javascript">
window.setTimeout(function(){
document.getElement('formSubmit').submit();
},1000*30);
</script>
}
?>
I don't know that much about jQuery other than going through a codecademy, and I know even less javascript. I'm a database person that got "conned" into building an advanced form/webpage. So I'm learning PHP, CSS, jQuery and HTML as I code.
Index.php:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name=“Warehouse 3962” content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<link href="style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
<script type="text/javascript">
<!—window.setTimeout(function(){
document.getElement(‘formSubmit').submit();
},1000*30); —>
</script>
</head>
<body>
<section class="w">
<div class="row">
<div class="small columns">
<img src="logo.png" />
<h3 class="green">Users</h3>
</div>
<h6>Warehouse 3962</h6>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="small columns">
<form action="ajax.php" method="post" id="formSubmit">
<table id="equipment-table">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Equipment</th>
<th>Amount</th>
<th>Val1</th>
<th>Val2</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<?php foreach
($results['tags'] as $equipment) {
if ($equipment['category'] == "Part") { ?>
<tr>
<td><?= $equipment['Amount']; ?></td>
<td class="text-center"><?= $equipment[‘quantity']; ?></td>
<td><input type="text" name="val1" /></td>
<td><input type="text" name="val2" /></td>
</tr>
<?php } // end if
} // end foreach ?>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align: right;"><input type="submit" class="button" name="DONE" value="DONE" /></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</form>
</div>
</div>
</section>
</body>
</html>
Answer 1
Please try this new solution. This will send a post every 30 seconds containing only the input boxes containing text on them.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="Warehouse 3962" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<link href="style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<section class="w">
<div class="row">
<div class="small columns">
<img src="logo.png" />
<h3 class="green">Users</h3>
</div>
<h6>Warehouse 3962</h6>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="small columns">
<form action="ajax.php" method="post" id="formSubmit">
<table id="equipment-table">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Equipment</th>
<th>Amount</th>
<th>Val1</th>
<th>Val2</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<?php
foreach ($results['tags'] as $equipment) :
if ($equipment['category'] === "Part") :
?>
<tr>
<td>
<?php echo $equipment['Amount']; ?>
</td>
<td class="text-center">
<?php echo $equipment['quantity']; ?>
</td>
<td>
<input id="<?php echo $equipment['number'];?>-val1" type="text" name="<?php echo $equipment['number'];?>-val1"/>
</td>
<td>
<input id="<?php echo $equipment['number'];?>-val2" type="text" name="<?php echo $equipment['number'];?>-val2"/>
</td>
</tr>
<?php
endif;
endforeach;
?>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align: right;">
<input type="submit" class="button" name="DONE" value="DONE" />
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</form>
</div>
</div>
</section>
<script type="text/javascript">
function sendData() {
var inputs = document.getElementById('equipment-table').getElementsByTagName('input'),
data = [],
name, val1, val2;
for (var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++) {
if ( inputs[i].type === 'submit') {
continue;
}
if ( inputs[i].value ) {
name = inputs[i].name.split('-val');
val1 = inputs[i].name.split('val1');
if (val1.length > 1) {
data.push({name: name[0], val1: inputs[i].value});
}
else {
data.push({name: name[0], val2: inputs[i].value});
}
}
}
window.setTimeout(function() {
sendData();
},30000);
}
sendData();
</script>
</body>
</html>
Answer 2
You cannot mix PHP with JavaScript and why you set a timeout to 1000*30, that is equal to set a timeout to 30000 which means 30 seconds. Then, you can use the 'require' attribute in the input filed to force the user to fill the required information.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="Warehouse 3962” content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<link href="style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<section class="w">
<div class="row">
<div class="small columns">
<img src="logo.png" />
<h3 class="green">Users</h3>
</div>
<h6>Warehouse 3962</h6>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="small columns">
<form action="ajax.php" method="post" id="formSubmit">
<table id="equipment-table">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Equipment</th>
<th>Amount</th>
<th>Val1</th>
<th>Val2</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<?php
foreach ($results['tags'] as $equipment) :
if ($equipment['category'] == "Part") : ?>
<tr>
<td><?= $equipment['Amount']; ?></td>
<td class="text-center">
<?php echo $equipment[‘quantity']; ?>
</td>
<td>
<input id="val1" type="text" name="val1”/>
</td>
<td>
<input id="val2" type="text" name="val2"/>
</td>
</tr>
<?php
endif;
endforeach;
?>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align: right;">
<input type="submit" class="button" name="DONE" value="DONE" />
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</form>
</div>
</div>
</section>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.setTimeout(function(){
var val1 = document.getElementById("val1").value,
val2 = document.getElementById("val1").value;
if ( ! val1 && ! val2 ) document.getElement('formSubmit').submit();
},30000);
</script>
</body>
</html>
