accessimg a form element elsewhere

@datalineFeb 27.2006

Hi,

Let’s say I have a form with id = “ABC” and in this form there is an input type text field called “name”. The question is “how can I access this field/element in other forms? I have tried the following 2:

variable = ABC.elements[“name”];
variable = document.ABC.elements[0];

No luck! I am learning PHP, and need the correct syntax statement that would do it.

Thanks!

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@KravvitzFeb 27.2006 — #Try this.
document.getElementById('ABC').elements["name"];

@datalineauthorFeb 27.2006 — #Hi Kravvitz,

Thanks for the reply! I've tried it; no luck!

May be I should try and explain what I'm doing. It is along this line:

1) I have a form id "ABC" where a user is to enter "name" and "e-mail address", and selects either football or hockey. User then clicks submit.

2) Another form opens, and based on choice, will show a number of players for selected sport (football / hockey). User will select a number of players and click submit.

3) On this submit, the players selected will be inserted in a MySQL DB (using PHP), as well as name and e-mail address of user. These 2 pieces of information were entered in the original (first) form. Hence my problem: accessing a form's elements from other places.

I am step-by-step building this site, and got stump on this. If anyone can think of anything to get me over this, it would be much appreciated!

Thanks!

DL.

@KravvitzFeb 27.2006 — #Could you provide a link tot he page in question?

You're not trying to access elements on a previous page are you?

@datalineauthorFeb 27.2006 — #Hi K.

To answer your questions:

1) I am doing/building everything on my local machine. It's not out there on an ISP server yet.

2) Yes, that's what I'm trying to do: access elements on a previous page.

Thx!

DL

@KravvitzFeb 27.2006 — #Ah! You can't do that with JavaScript.

[url=http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php]You need to use PHP. You can access the name/value pairs that were submitted via $_GET, $_POST, and $_REQUEST.[/url]

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