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Feb 01.2007

Hi everybody.

This is my first post – the usual plea for help I’m afraid – but hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

I have a form with a text list of 100 names and a folder with gfx sequentially numbered.

Its a cartoon thing – I want the end user to select their five favourites from the list and have them appear on a presentation page.

I know it can be done via a post. But new to PHP and not 100% clued up on variables.
On anything really for that matter. ?

Hope this makes a little sense.
Any advice would be very much appreciated.

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@NightShift58Feb 01.2007 — Where are the hundred names coming from? Are you coding them in manually in your script or from some other source?
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@ShuggyauthorFeb 01.2007 — Hi, thanks for the reply!

The names are included in the form on the page itself.

I would use a dropdown gadget or buttons to click on - haven't decided on that yet.
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@NightShift58Feb 01.2007 — It would make a difference...
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@ShuggyauthorFeb 01.2007 — <SELECT NAME=choose_character>

<OPTION VALUE="avatar1">avatar1

<OPTION VALUE="avatar2">avatar2

<OPTION VALUE="avatar3">avatar3

<OPTION VALUE="avatar4">avatar4

<OPTION VALUE="avatar5">avatar5

</SELECT>

I think a drop-down box like this would suffice.
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@hastxFeb 01.2007 — to simply take those choices an display them:

[code=php]
//gather the variables from the POST
$choose_character = $_POST['choose_character'];
$choose_character2 = $_POST['choose_character2'];//and so on
$ext = ".gif"; //whatever file type they are

//and then to display them:
echo "<img src="folder/$choose_character$ext">";
[/code]

or just embed them in the html:

[CODE]<img src="folder/<?=$choose_character.$ext ?>"><br>
<img src="folder/<?=$choose_character2.$ext ?>">
[/CODE]

you could also include the file extension in the value of your dropdown and avoid having to specify it here.
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@NightShift58Feb 01.2007 — If you go the <SELECT> route, you want to do it as "MULTIPLE".

As user navigation assistance, you'll need some javascript validation to ensure that the user doesn't select more than 5 items and in the following page, you should validate again, with PHP, to preclude your script from processing if more than 5 items were selected (in case the user doesn't have javascript or somehow bypasses the javascript validatation).
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@ShuggyauthorFeb 02.2007 — I got the form displaying images and a link to a numbered text file.

<?php

$choose_character = $_POST['avatar'];

$choose_character2 = $_POST['avatar2'];

$ext = ".gif"; //image filetype

$myext = ".txt"; //textual filetype

echo "<img src="gfx/$choose_character$ext">";

echo "<A HREF="txt/$choose_character$myext">READ MORE</A>";

echo "<img src="gfx/$choose_character2$ext">";

echo "<A HREF="txt/$choose_character2$myext">READ MORE</A>";

?>

Its basic but a good start.

Thank you both for the help ?
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