Conditional Display of Form Fields

[kuau]

Yes I do, right here. Maybe I'm misunderstanding.. sorry.

<?php if(isset($_POST['addnewloc'])) { ?>
  <div id="newloc">   <p><label for="location">New Location:</label><input type="text" name="location" size="60"></p>

[rangana]

But it's not being added in the page (as markup).

View your page's source and do a ctrl+f and find newloc. (See that it does'nt exists (yet).

[kuau]

I see what you mean (duh!). It was because of the

<?php if(isset($_POST['addnewloc'])) { ?>

around it. Anyway, I fixed it and it works perfectly except for one detail -- I LOVE it! Exactly what I had in mind.

The only problem is that when the page loads, the fields are showing already. If you click and then unclick, they go away. How do I make the page load with the fields hidden to start? e

[rangana]

See if adding the highlighted helps:

<div id="newloc" style="display:none;">

[kuau]

Dear Rangana: That was it! It is perfect now... thank you so much. I just love it when things work in such cool ways. I would never have figured that out in a million years.

You made my day. e

[Jas]

http://www.calendarmaui.com/php/event-submit.php

Hmm. I'm not liking your form validation. Suppose that you were color blind, how could you get past that? See the W3C's WCAG 2.0, as well.

1.4.1 Use of Color: Color is not used as the only visual means of conveying information, indicating an action, prompting a response, or distinguishing a visual element.

Though WCAG is often criticized, that rule makes a lot of sense. I highly suggest a new CAPTCHA program.

[kuau]

I just finished making that one myself and was quite proud of it. I figured that the small percentage of people who are colorblind could use a process of elimination and deduce the color based on the ones they could see. I don't want a difficult CAPTCHA program. Nothing ruins my day faster than not being able to get past some unintelligible CAPTCHA. I haven't even made the form live yet. Maybe it will be too easy for the bots and I'll have to change it, but right now I do not want to go back to square one. Thanks.

[motormichael12]

I love these kind: (I made it but it is like the ones I always get)



Solve it :P

[kuau]

I rest my case! haha

[Jas]

I just finished making that one myself and was quite proud of it. I figured that the small percentage of people who are colorblind could use a process of elimination and deduce the color based on the ones they could see.

It is a nice captcha program, no doubt. But I don't think you understand color blindness very well. For one thing, there are more color blind people than you seem to think there are-- I know a few myself. For another, the "process of elemination" only works if you recognize all of the other colors, and chances are that they won't unless they are mildly color blind. In a severly color blind person, things like yellow, blue, and red can all look exactly the same. Generally speaking, color blind people can only really tell saturated colors (i.e. true red, true blue, etc). Colors like purple and blue are very hard to tell apart, and in some cases green and red, pink and purple, etc.

I don't want a difficult CAPTCHA program. Nothing ruins my day faster than not being able to get past some unintelligible CAPTCHA.

So you see the problem

I haven't even made the form live yet. Maybe it will be too easy for the bots and I'll have to change it, but right now I do not want to go back to square one. Thanks.

Understandable, but at the same time it will frustrate a lot of color blind people. Maybe a more traditional captcha program, or a random question would work better. As for the former, there is a simple version in a tutorial linked in my signature. It needs work, though, before it's actually used live. (For one thing, blind people still cannot use it, for another the hyper linked code/example don't work quite right (the posted code does).)